The Treasury Department on Wednesday reimposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestinian territories, just one week after removing her from a federal sanctions list. The Office of Foreign Asset Control added Albanese to its specially designated nationals list under sanctions tied to the International Criminal Court, according to a Treasury notice […]

The United States military on Wednesday conducted new strikes on an Iranian military site that officials said posed a threat to American forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports. The reports of new strikes come as the U.S. and Iran inch forward with a peace deal that seeks to end […]

A Staten Island man was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for participating in a plot to kill a journalist and prominent critic of Iran‘s government in a case prosecutors say was directed by operatives tied to Tehran. Jonathan Loadholt, 37, pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit stalking and […]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) threw his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday, bringing Senate leadership one step closer to coalescing around a Republican they spent months trying to defeat. Thune endorsed Paxton on the heels of his victory against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), telling conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that […]