Taliban Releases US Citizen Faye Hall Held in Afghanistan

U.S. special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, negotiated Faye Hall’s release with the help of Qatari officials. An American citizen detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan last month said on March 29 that she has been released. Faye Hall thanked President Donald Trump for securing her release in a video message posted to

Trump Says Nothing ‘Off the Table’ in Obtaining Greenland

‘We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent,’ Trump said. President Donald Trump said on March 29 that he has “absolutely” had real discussions about annexing the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland. “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Saturday, adding that there’s a “good possibility that we could

US to Upgrade Military Command in Japan to Deter China: Hegseth

‘Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression,’ Hegseth said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on March 30 that Japan is indispensable to combatting Chinese aggression in the South Pacific and that plans will soon commence to enhance the U.S. military command in the nation. “We share a warrior ethos that defines

Both Parties on Edge As Special Elections Loom for Deep-Red District in Florida

The results of the two races on April 1 could reveal voter sentiment towards the administration heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Special elections for two major Florida congressional districts will take place on April 1, pitting two outsider Democrats against two longtime fixtures of the state government. The race has both parties on edge

Bogged Down

Except for professional historians, I know no one familiar with the Crimean War, which pitted Russia against Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia from 1853-1856. To be sure, a few people recall that during this war Florence Nightingale introduced modern nursing, and Tennyson wrote his thrilling poem about the charge of the Light Brigade. Otherwise, this