Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels.
Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs.
WASHINGTON >> The top two U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers today that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.
The United States called for a vote Friday on a U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza is “imperative.”
Darker days for American-Israeli relations may be ahead if Netanyahu stays the current course, write Dan Raviv and Yossi Melmen.
“The national and cyber security communities have warned” Big Tech it will have to choose between US government contracts and the Chinese market, notes Paul Rosenzweig at The Hill.
NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Beijing, where a number of U.S. business leaders, including the CEOs of Blackstone, Qualcomm, Bloomberg, Chubb and FedEx, met with the Chinese president
Former President Donald Trump is embroiled in multiple criminal indictments as he seeks another term in the White House, and as the cases develop, the former president has had some wins and losses as the trials approach. On Monday, three of the former president’s criminal cases had moves that either helped or hurt him in […]
A U.S.-led resolution calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza failed to pass in the United Nations Security Council on Friday as Russia and China, who are permanent members, voted against the measure. Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., said the resolution was exceedingly politicized and contained an effective green light for Israel to mount a military operation in Rafah. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., responded by saying that Russia...
The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday.
As expected, former college superstar Jimmer Fredette is among the four players picked by USA Basketball for the men’s first 3×3 hoops team to appear in an . Fredette, 35, the former national player of the year more than a decade ago at Brigham Young University who also played in the and professionally overseas, will play for the U.S. at the Paris Olympics alongside Canyon Barry, Kareem Maddox and Dylan Travis, USA Basketball announced Tuesday. Barry is the son of NBA legend Rick Barry. The...
A video taken by the New York Post and posted Thursday showed migrants breaking through fencing and knocking down guard members. The post Some Illegal Immigrants Who Stormed U.S. Border in Texas Released into U.S. After Being Processed first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.