A Cambodian military vehicle carries rocket launcher in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, July 26, 2025. Heng Sinith /AP Photo Thai and Cambodian leaders on July 27 indicated they would meet in Malaysia and enter into cease-fire negotiations to resolve a deadly border dispute after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on Saturday. After four days of
Blue and yellow lights flicker around the border of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 28, 2022. Ethan Miller/Getty Images House Republicans chose Las Vegas as the place to stage their first public field hearing touting the benefits of the One Big, Beautiful
Employees work at a factory that produces lithium battery for export in Huaibei, China, on June 11, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images China monopolizes over 80 percent of critical raw battery minerals used in U.S. military equipment, posing a serious national security threat, new research has found. Beijing’s “brute force economics” utilizes a bevy of
Fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich., on June 8, 2017. The Canadian Press/AP/Dale G. Young Pipeline operators want Congress to amend federal law
The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph
A fence set by Israeli authorities, in Sinjil, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on May 5, 2025. Mohammed Torokman/Reuters A group of 29 Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), signed onto a letter on July 24, calling on the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of State to lead an
Zohran Mamdani, New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, held an elaborate three-day wedding celebration in Uganda complete with military security and cellphone signal jammers.