The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for the better part of nine months, far past its planned homecoming, as the Navy keeps its carrier groups deployed longer to cover a widening set of missions. The latest USS Abraham Lincoln news is not about a battle, it is about the toll a record-length deployment…
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally rescinded President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, ending weeks of Senate gridlock and clearing the last major obstacle to his confirmation as permanent attorney general. The late Sunday order dated August 2, 2026 terminated a May 18 directive that had drawn bipartisan criticism over who could…
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The order arrived without warning. Troops from Fort Hood, Texas were already boarding planes some had already landed in Poland when the Pentagon abruptly cancelled the deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to one of America’s closest NATO allies. Inside the Pentagon, officials said they had “no idea it was coming.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…
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Tehran / Washington – Inside Iran’s labyrinthine power structure, where factions within factions operate behind layers of ideological allegiance and institutional loyalty, a specific and dangerous bloc has emerged as the single greatest internal threat to any US-Iran diplomatic agreement. They are known, with a mixture of reverence and alarm depending on who is speaking,…
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Rome / Washington – Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in what diplomatic observers are calling one of the most consequential and delicate engagements in recent US-Vatican relations. The visit comes after weeks of quietly escalating tensions between Washington and the Holy See, spanning disputes over…
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New Delhi / Tokyo / Singapore | April 30, 2026 When the United States and Israel launched their air campaign against Iran on February 28, 2026 and Iranian forces swiftly barricaded the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation the world did not just witness the beginning of a devastating regional war. It witnessed the moment that…
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In the span of forty-eight hours, Washington lurched from a security emergency to a carefully managed display of diplomatic normalcy. A shooting outside the annual White House journalists’ dinner on Saturday evening one of the most closely watched events on the American press calendar sent President Trump rushing off stage under Secret Service protection. By…
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In a landmark shift, the Trump administration has moved state-licensed medical marijuana out of the same federal category as heroin and the ripple effects are already being felt from Washington state medical license holders to New York and beyond. On April 22, 2026, President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical…
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WASHINGTON – On the afternoon of April 17, Dario Amodei CEO of Anthropic, the AI company the Trump administration declared a “Supply Chain Risk to National Security” just 49 days earlier walked into the White House and met with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Both sides called it “productive and…
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Standing before thousands of faithful in the heart of Cameroon’s war-torn Anglophone region, Pope Leo XIV delivered his most direct condemnation yet of world leaders who wage war while invoking God’s blessing words that landed in Washington like a thunderclap. The setting was Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, a city that has lived under the…