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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the United States has now seized approximately $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the Iranian government, roughly doubling the figure he had given a month earlier. Speaking at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley, California, Bessent made the
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday in a transcribed closed-door interview about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, defending the department's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act while drawing accusations from
President Donald Trump met with senior national security officials in the White House Situation Room on Friday to make what he had described in advance as a "final determination" on the framework deal with Iran. After roughly two hours of deliberations, the meeting ended without a decision, a
Taiwanese Defense Minister Wellington Koo Li-hsiung said Monday that he remained "cautiously optimistic" the United States would move forward with a pending $14 billion arms package for the island, even as contradictory signals from Washington over the past week have raised questions about whether the sale is
The foreign ministers of the Quad — the United States, Australia, India, and Japan — met in New Delhi on Tuesday for their 11th ministerial gathering, announcing a series of new initiatives on maritime surveillance, critical minerals, port infrastructure, and energy security as the four-country grouping looked to translate years of
North Korea carried out a new weapons launch on Tuesday, firing at least one close-range ballistic missile and several other projectiles toward waters off its west coast. South Korea’s military said the launch was detected from the Jongju area in North Pyongan Province and moved toward the Yellow
Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his papacy to call for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed,” placing the Vatican directly into the center of a debate now being fought by governments, technology companies, military planners, labor leaders, and ethicists. The document, Magnifica Humanitas, was released Monday at the
The U.S. military said Monday it had carried out a series of "self-defense" strikes in southern Iran, targeting missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to lay mines, even as President Donald Trump described the ongoing negotiations to end the war as "proceeding nicely."
Prime Minister Mark Carney sharpened his criticism of Alberta's planned referendum on Monday, warning that the October vote risks repeating the mistakes of Brexit and calling the entire exercise "a very dangerous bluff." Speaking at a press conference in Orleans, an Ottawa suburb, Carney said separation
Russia launched one of the largest aerial assaults of its four-year war against Ukraine overnight Saturday into Sunday, firing 600 attack drones and 90 missiles — including a nuclear-capable Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile — in a barrage focused on Kyiv. The attack began shortly after 1 a.m. local time
President Donald Trump on Sunday told U.S. negotiators not to rush into a final agreement with Iran, even as regional officials briefed on the talks said the two sides were closing in on a deal that would end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Saturday for his first official visit to the country, a four-day trip designed to repair a U.S.–India relationship that has been bruised by tariffs, Iran war diplomacy, and Washington's growing engagement with both Pakistan and China.
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