President Trump is lashing out at rivals and allies alike amid an escalating game of economic chicken between the U.S. and Iran.
On Monday, he threatened to bomb the s--- out of Oman, a day after he told Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea. Read more. |
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President Trump’s executive order recommending that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split up across three appointments is drawing poor reception from the pharmaceutical industry as drugmakers and trade groups say there’s no scientific reasoning to follow the directive.
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The United Nations Security Council is set to elect the next secretary-general in the fall, a high-stakes contest for a thankless job.
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President Trump declared the U.S. has “total control over the Strait” of Hormuz on Monday, adding that Iran isn’t likely to “make the kind of deal that I feel is necessary” to end the conflict. Read more. |
A group of 15 senators said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth owes Americans answers about the ongoing deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group after reports of low morale and a mental health crisis among service members aboard.
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Progressive House lawmakers and far-left Democratic candidates are traveling to Uruguay this week to challenge President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” in Latin America.
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More cases have been linked to outbreaks of cyclospora that do not have an identified source, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, meanwhile, has expanded to two additional states.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear its challenge to Texas’s law requiring public school classrooms to post the Ten Commandments.
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The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has flared up in the thick of the justices’ summer recess.
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