The president said a potential arms deal for Taiwan was a “very good negotiating chip” in talks with Beijing. His words raise questions about the steadfastness of U.S. support.
President Donald Trump said U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out a mission Friday night to kill a leader of the Islamic State group
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Political Asylum What Military-Industrial Complex? Plus musical corpses and senility. Any chance you, too, remember the military-industrial complex? How’s about the national security state or, to summon the ghost of C. Wright Mills, the power elite? Maybe the term “establishment” comes to mind, that pejorative popularized by Henry Fairlie, in his 1955 description of how and by whom political influence was exercised in Great Britain. If you remember any of those terms, you might also recall that they symbolized structures of government that every respectable progressive—the nonce word for liberals—once opposed. The military-industrial complex, et al., referred to institutions of government, business and education that worked…Open
The final of the Eurovision Contest arrives Saturday, with tight security and rainy weather failing to dent the enthusiasm of fans, or the opposition of critics who think Israel shouldn't be invited.
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An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday targeted the leader of Hamas' military wing, Israeli officials said, but it wasn't immediately clear if Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured.
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Jost said "Saturday Night Live" writers deemed the idea "too ridiculous" and Hegseth then did it "for real" just two weeks later.
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The “Late Show” hosts reprised a classic bit before a F-bomb ending.
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The U.S. military could destroy Iran’s infrastructure “within two days” if it wanted, the president said in a two-minute rant aboard Air Force One.
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The French singer and actress was at the center of a highly publicized manslaughter trial in the mid-1970s after she was charged with the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich.
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