Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party won a landslide election last month with a platform that included transforming the Japanese Self-Defense Force into a formal military. But meddling with the constitution could give opposition parties an unwelcome opportunity to demand their own adjustments. A senior Japanese official told the Washington Examiner that moving to change Article […]

Iran launched two missiles at the United Kingdom‘s base in Diego Garcia, missing but exposing greater missile capabilities than previously known. After the U.K. announced it would allow the U.S. to use its bases for defensive strikes against Iran, Tehran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, over 2,000 miles […]

Democratic turnout in the 2026 Senate primary elections is up across the board compared to recent midterm years, while Republicans have largely struggled to attract voters to the polls in each state, except Texas, so far. State Rep. James Talarico swept headlines in early March after beating Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in Texas’s Democratic Senate […]

President Donald Trump said that responsibility for securing and guarding the Strait of Hormuz would have to lie with the other countries that use it, with the United States only helping. In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump said the U.S. was “getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down […]