Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces on Monday to strike Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, sending thousands of civilians fleeing the Lebanese capital a day after Israeli troops seized a strategic medieval fortress in the country's south.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a health entity, has vowed to contribute about $60 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
U.S. Central Command intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces in Kuwait late Sunday, the military announced Monday, the latest exchange of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces stretching across the weekend.
The head of U.S. Southern Command sat down with a senior Cuban general at the edge of Guantanamo Bay on Friday, a direct military encounter so unusual it signals just how tense relations have become between Washington and the communist regime in Havana.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Saturday that the United States will not allow China to seize control of the Asia-Pacific and pressed American allies to raise defense budgets to 3.5 percent of GDP or stop expecting Washington to carry their weight.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Friday asking a federal judge to recuse herself from a Georgia election records case, arguing that her prior ties to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis make impartial proceedings impossible.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Tom Barrack, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will take on expanded duties as Special Presidential Envoy to both Syria and Iraq, placing a single diplomat at the center of three overlapping pressure points in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump called on a federal judge Sunday to immediately throw out a lawsuit blocking construction of a rooftop drone base at the White House, warning the judge would be personally "held responsible" for any future attack on the executive mansion if he refuses.
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called on the Trump administration to scrap a nearly $1.776 billion Justice Department fund created to compensate people claiming to have been victimized by the Biden administration, saying the money could end up in the pockets of convicted January 6 rioters.
