Mandela Barnes, the former Wisconsin lieutenant governor and frontrunner in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary, withdrew from the race Thursday amid an investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel into allegations that he used his position in the state Democratic Party to have sexual encounters with young adult women.
Spain deployed military forces to its Ceuta enclave Friday after thousands of migrants breached the Morocco border fence and swarmed the tiny Spanish territory, leaving at least nine people dead and border officials describing the situation as "absolute chaos."
President Trump announced Thursday evening that the Board of Peace reached a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and other groups in Gaza, an effort that he called a "monumental step" toward peace and security.
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, as the military scrambles to replenish air defense stockpiles severely depleted by the ongoing conflict with Iran.
The Trump administration is pushing to reopen closed oil refineries across the United States, including a dormant facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as gasoline prices remain elevated above $4.10 per gallon amid the ongoing Iran war.
The American people should simply stop asking questions about whether COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory, according to a prominent medical journal editor who rushed to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci on national television this week.
