Afghanistan accused Pakistan's military Monday night of striking a drug rehabilitation hospital in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 400 people and wounding approximately 250 others — the deadliest single incident in three weeks of escalating cross-border fighting between the two countries. The strike hit the Omar Addiction Treatment
Cuba's national electric grid went dark Monday in a complete island-wide blackout, leaving approximately 10 million people without power as the country's energy crisis reaches a breaking point. It was the third major blackout in four months — and the most severe sign yet that decades of
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy returned to court in Paris to appeal his conviction in the case centered on alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign. The appeal hearing reopened one of the most consequential legal proceedings involving a former French head of state, revisiting a ruling that last
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on March 13 directed Houston-based Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations at the Santa Ynez Unit and Santa Ynez Pipeline System off the coast of Santa Barbara, invoking the Defense Production Act — a Cold War-era law that grants the executive branch broad authority over domestic industry
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer sat down Sunday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, opening a two-day round of trade negotiations that both governments are treating as the last major preparatory
President Donald Trump on Saturday called on a coalition of major powers to dispatch warships to the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas normally flows, as the Iran war entered its third week with no end to
Five SNAP recipients went to federal court March 11, suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over waivers that block them from using their benefits to buy sugary drinks, candy, and prepared desserts. The plaintiffs are from Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The National Center for Law and
The Trump administration is moving to suspend the Jones Act, a 1920 maritime law that limits domestic waterborne cargo to American-built, American-flagged, American-crewed vessels. The suspension would let foreign-flagged tankers move oil, gasoline, and other petroleum products between U.S. ports, trade that ships are currently barred from touching. Press
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed off on the deployment March 13 after U.S. Central Command put in the request. Roughly 2,500 Marines are heading to the Middle East, along with the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli, a vessel based in Japan that, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung told his cabinet Tuesday that Seoul is powerless to stop the United States from redeploying military assets out of the country, after reports confirmed that Washington had begun moving Patriot missile batteries and parts of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system from the
By: Daniel Murrah, Residing Fellow at Atlas
The United States military announced Tuesday it had eliminated 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz as Operation Epic Fury entered its 11th day, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declaring it the most intense day of strikes against Iran since the war began on February 28. The announcement
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