Secretary of State Marco Rubio may be the highest-ranking administration official representing President Donald Trump at this year’s Munich Security Conference, but European counterparts are not sighing with relief, at least not yet. Vice President JD Vance roiled Europe last year with his remarks to the conference when he told the continent it was its […]

The United States’s efforts to permanently neutralize the Iranian threat are getting tangled by disagreements between allies who, theoretically, should be cheering on the regime’s collapse. President Donald Trump has ordered a second aircraft carrier to join military patrols in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. envoys are meeting with increasingly desperate Iranian counterparts with the […]

The federal government entered a partial shutdown early Saturday with no end in sight after Congress failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security over stalled negotiations on immigration enforcement. Without an immediate off-ramp and lawmakers now on recess until the last week of February, the DHS and its umbrella agencies could be shuttered for […]

One of Cuba’s key oil refineries was engulfed in flames on Friday, worsening an already crippling oil crisis. Videos posted on social media showed massive plumes of black smoke rising from Havana Harbor’s Ñico López oil refinery on Friday. The fire began in a warehouse storing oil products, but was soon contained by firefighters. “A […]