Iraq’s prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said that Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, killed in a U.S. drone strike, was in Iraq to deliver Iran’s de-escalation proposals. ...
The Iraqi Parliament voted on January 5 to eliminate the U.S. troop presence in Iraq “due to the end of military operations in Iraq and the achievement of victory...
Representative Thomas Massie has said that he is supportive of local officials who would go to jail rather than enforce unconstitutional anti-Second Amendment laws. ...
A news release from the U.S. Census Bureau said that the nation’s population growth is slowing, especially in California and New York, which may lose seats in Congress. ...
The United States suffered more mass killings in 2019 than any year on record; California, with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, had the most of...
The United States will resume “rare earth elements” (REE) processing, breaking a monopoly by which China controlled 97 percent of the world’s supply of REEs. ...
A conference of state-selected religious leaders in China issued a directive that all religious works must be revised to conform to the Communist Party Line. ...
A six-year-old girl in London found a note inside a Christmas card reading: “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will.” ...
House Democrats are planning to continue their impeachment efforts even after the Senate trial. “A president can be impeached more than once,” said one Democrat. ...
After the United States expelled two Chinese Embassy officials who drove onto a U.S. Navy base in Virginia Beach, the Chinese asked the United States to “correct its mistake.”...
In a recent TV interview, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was concerned that the Democratic effort to impeach President Trump would “dumb down and destroy the country.” ...
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, responding to tweets from climate activist Greta Thunberg, said: “It’s impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that.” ...
The head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said, “the American people have constantly been lied to” about Afghanistan. ...
The number of migrants from African nations, as well as the Caribbean nation of Haiti, heading to the United States through Mexico has more than doubled this year. ...
The Trump administration has ordered National Park Service rangers to travel to the U.S.-Mexican border to help fight illegal immigration and drug traffickers. ...