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As we head into 2026 and Democrats try to figure out how to regain power, their New Year’s resolution should be simple: Manage egos better.

In recent years, they seem to have forgotten the time-tested necessity of ...Read more

On Dec. 22 at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump — flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Navy Secretary John Phelan — announced a plan to build battleships that would be "the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s stunning year-end announcement that he is redirecting decades of U.S. Naval planning by re-emphasizing surface, rather than submarine warfare with construction of a new class of battleships is ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned other drug-producing nations in the Western Hemisphere that he wouldn’t long tolerate the flow of illegal substances to the U.S.

A day after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas ...Read more

Minnesota political leaders from both parties condemned a social media post Saturday by President Donald Trump that amplified a baseless conspiracy theory suggesting Gov. Tim Walz was involved in the killing of former ...Read more

The U.S. plans to control Venezuela through an oil “quarantine” and a coordinated pressure campaign — but could still send in ground troops if President Trump decides to, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will use leverage over oil to force further change in Venezuela as he seizes a long-awaited chance to try to shape Latin America in Washington’s favor.

Rubio, 54, emerged ...Read more

President Donald Trump won broad approval for his strike on Venezuela from hawkish Republicans who have sparred with the White House over Ukraine and other foreign policies throughout Trump’s first year back in office. ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would use an oil “quarantine” to get what it wants from Venezuela’s new leaders following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro.

With questions swirling about how the U....Read more

As space rapidly becomes an essential battlefield, Europe risks being left behind. Its current approach to the new space race — regulate first, compete later — is unlikely to help.

Ukraine’s dependence on SpaceX’s...Read more

“The West” is a club on life support, skewered on the lance of Donald Trump’s Hobbesian view of the world as a series of protection rackets carved up by countries strong enough to command a seat at the table. With ...Read more

Hours after President Donald Trump stunned the world by saying the U.S. plans to “run” Venezuela, uncertainty over what that means and who is in charge loomed over the South American nation.

Ousted Venezuelan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges in the United States after an extraordinary overnight military raid to secure his arrest, the culmination of a lengthy U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — What the United States does next in Venezuela and in the Western Hemisphere more broadly are questions that loom large as the 119th Congress returns to work this week for its second session.

On the heels of...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed fresh frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, bristling at the Kremlin’s ongoing military operations even as the U.S. leader seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

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Even for the casual observer, it’s probably apparent that modern warfare, both domestic and abroad, is dramatically changing. Scenes this summer of a synchronized fleet of Ukrainian drones descending on a field of ...Read more

It seems Idaho U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have finally broken with President Donald Trump — on one issue, at least.

But they seem to have picked about the worst one they could have.

As the Statesman’s Kevin ...Read more

It seems Idaho U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have finally broken with President Donald Trump — on one issue, at least.

But they seem to have picked about the worst one they could have.

As the Statesman’s Kevin ...Read more

The Trump administration is badly stretching the law to keep open coal-fired power plants throughout the Midwest that otherwise would have shuttered under well-thought-out, long-term strategies.

The latest examples are in...Read more