A former senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million from the federal government and stashing them in his home.
Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insight into the animal's behavior and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case, has been euthanized at age 55.
Elections this year hold out the promise that the state can change policies in a way to recover some international good will.
Personal attacks and a packed campaign rally set the tone for what is likely to be a rancorous contest for U.S. Senate between James Talarico and Ken Paxton in Texas.
Christine Russo says warning signs were there long before the deadly 2022 crash that killed her brother Dominic.
Stephen Miller and Nicolle Wallace have something in common. The post My Reality TV Show: What Won’t They Say? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag My Reality TV Show: What Won’t They Say? Stephen Miller and Nicolle Wallace have something in common. Other than President Donald Trump supposedly finally ending his Iran War with a beautiful deal—a tremendous deal, an incredible deal, and could everyone please tell him that?—the president’s only other helpful move this quarter was to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his successful runoff against the incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. As Cornyn’s $92 million in attack ads painstakingly reminded voters, Paxton has been accused of: bribery, abuse of public trust and misappropriation, misusing state resources, obstruction of justice, making false statements,…Open
An obscure document from 2010 could be shaping U.S. diplomacy. The post How Brazil’s Left-Wing Leader Might Help Trump End the Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs How Brazil’s Left-Wing Leader Might Help Trump End the Iran War An obscure document from 2010 could be shaping U.S. diplomacy. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flew to Iran in 2010 and persuaded the Islamic Republic to ship 1,200 kilograms of its enriched uranium—which accounted for roughly 70 percent of its stockpile—to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods to be used for a medical research reactor. The terms of that deal, signed by the foreign ministers of Iran,…Open
His new friends are not only his adversaries of yore, but the obstacles to policies he wants now—particularly peace in Iran. The post Trump May Miss His Principled Opponents appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Trump May Miss His Principled Opponents His new friends are not only his adversaries of yore, but the obstacles to policies he wants now—particularly peace in Iran. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) On the surface there are no three politicians more different than John Cornyn, Thomas Massie, and Bill Cassidy, the three Republican lawmakers whose current stints in Congress were recently ended by President Donald Trump. Massie is the only one of this trio who might have a political future . Although he lost by nearly 10 points, he won a shade more than 45 percent of the vote to Cornyn’s 36 percent and…Open
Months after Pakistan declared “open war” on Afghanistan, neither side appears ready to back down, despite China’s efforts to mediate.
A key measure of inflation in China, they hit a 16-year low, driven by anemic consumer spending and an oversupply of hogs.