Congress met a year-end deadline to pass the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, marking the 65th consecutive year that lawmakers have approved the bill, a rare show of bipartisanship. The Senate passed the NDAA, which sets the policy priorities of the Pentagon, in a 77-20 vote, handing troops a 3.8% pay raise and authorizing […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, a consistent opponent of President Donald Trump on foreign policy since the beginning of his second administration, made an explicit call for the United Nations to intervene against U.S. military operations in the region. Trump’s saber-rattling against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has exasperated political divisions in South America, with some leaders […]

A federal appeals court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court ruling that would have forced President Donald Trump to withdraw National Guard troops from Washington, D.C., concluding that the administration is likely to prevail in defending the deployment as lawful. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals […]

Maryland‘s state legislature blocked Gov. Wes Moore‘s (D-MD) veto on Tuesday of the creation of a state reparations commission. The state’s Senate and Assembly both exceeded the three-fifths majority required to override the veto. Moore, who is black, slapped the legislation down in May because he believed the state had already properly studied the impact […]