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Spain has closed its skies to American military aircraft involved in the war on Iran, its defense minister confirmed Monday, escalating Madrid's opposition to the conflict into a direct confrontation with a NATO ally. The move goes beyond Spain's earlier refusal to let the United States
Israel's parliament voted Monday night to make death by hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks against Israelis, a law that its far-right sponsors celebrated with champagne on the Knesset floor and that rights groups immediately challenged in court. The measure passed 62-48, with Prime
Volodymyr Zelensky flew back to Kyiv on Monday declaring his whirlwind tour of the Middle East a success — and with good reason. In four days, the Ukrainian president visited Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan, signing 10-year defense cooperation agreements with three Gulf states and opening discussions
Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the Israeli Northern Command on Sunday and gave an order that will reshape the map of southern Lebanon. The prime minister instructed the IDF to widen its ground campaign beyond the buffer zone already carved out over the past four weeks — a push aimed at driving
The partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security crossed into its 44th day on Sunday, officially surpassing the 43-day record set during last fall's government-wide funding lapse. Congress left Washington for a two-week Easter and Passover recess without a deal, meaning the standoff will stretch well past
Pakistan convened foreign ministers from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt in Islamabad on Sunday for two days of talks aimed at brokering an end to the war in Iran and restoring shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The gathering represents the most concentrated diplomatic effort by regional powers since the
The Pentagon is considering deploying up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East, a move that would mark the largest single surge of American combat power into the region since the war with Iran began on February 28. The proposed deployment would include infantry units and armored
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is in serious trouble. A bipartisan House Ethics Committee panel ruled early Friday morning that the Florida Democrat committed 25 ethics violations — a finding that clears the path for what could become only the seventh expulsion of a sitting House member in American history. The eight-member subcommittee,
The Senate voted unanimously early Friday morning to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a 42-day standoff that left TSA agents working without pay and turned airport security lines into hours-long ordeals across the country. The deal covers the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the
The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to hand the Trump administration a win on immigration, with a majority of justices signaling during oral arguments that federal law does not require border agents to process asylum seekers who have not yet physically crossed into the United States. The case, Noem v.
The Trump administration has submitted a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran through Pakistani intermediaries, opening what could become the first structured diplomatic track since the war began on February 28. The proposal was delivered as fighting continued across the region, with Iranian missiles striking Israel and Gulf Arab states while
NASA is going back to the surface. Administrator Jared Isaacman announced Tuesday that the agency will abandon its planned Gateway space station — a multi-purpose outpost designed to orbit the moon — and redirect those resources toward building a permanent base on the lunar surface. The price tag: $20 billion over the
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