On Thursday, the Senate invoked cloture, allowing debate to begin on the bill, but delay tactics from hardline conservatives prevented quick passage. Former national security officials warned in a letter to the Senate that 'even slight delays in surveillance and analysis could have grave consequences
By: Micaela Burrow, Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted Tuesday that stationing troops off a humanitarian pier leading to Gaza does not count as having boots on land, while leaving wide open the possibility of a live-fire exchange with attackers on the ground. The statement appears to undercut the Biden administration’s
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
The FBI would not say Tuesday whether it is investigating people identifying themselves as part of a foreign terrorist organization
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
The United States and Mexico plan to clamp down on illegal immigration at their shared border, leaders from both countries said on Monday, vowing to disrupt irregular crossings that have reached record levels in recent years. In a phone conversation on Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) At a press conference in Beijing on Friday April 26th, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked “Students all across your country are coming out and expressing the outrage at what’s happening in Gaza. Are you taking on board those protests? What do you say to young people, young Americans, who […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The way that the U.S. empire expands its control into targeted countries so as to perpetrate coups that formerly the CIA had been doing (such as, most famously, in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973 — all of which replaced a democratically elected progressive leader by a fascist dictator […]
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. U.S. president Joe Biden has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60-billion for Ukraine. The wait for more funding from the U.S. has dragged on for months, all while Russia continues to press ahead in […]
Concern about the rapidly rising U.S. government debt is partly behind recent surges in gold prices and bitcoin, even as the Treasury market so far remains relatively sanguine about the country’s fiscal path, market observers say. The U.S. budget deficit widened to $1.7 trillion in fiscal year 2023 and is on track to reach $2.6 trillion by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office. U.S. government debt held by the public, meanwhile, is on pace to reach a record 106% of gross domestic...
Let’s never see this kind of impeachment circus in the Senate again.
Let’s never see this kind of impeachment circus in the Senate again.