Republicans heckled President Biden when he raised the fentanyl crisis during his State of the Union on Tuesday night, drawing attention to the flow of the deadly synthetic opioid over the…
Ahead of a State of the Union address in which President Biden called for a “major surge” to tackle the deadly opioid epidemic, a U.S. Navy admiral and former U.S. Pacific Command commander said…
As the smoke cleared after the U.S. Air Force weekend shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted through U.S. airspace for days, senior Republicans said that while Beijing was trying…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that he appreciates his “consistent and resolute stance against terrorism.” Abbas has not publicly…
As news of the murder of seven Israelis near a Jerusalem synagogue spread on Friday night, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank took to the streets in celebration, honking car horns, handing out…
Defending herself against allegations of a pattern of antisemitic statements, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that since a controversy blew up over comments she made in early 2019, she…
The religious freedom advocacy group Open Doors on Tuesday released the 30th edition of its closely-watched annual list of the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. It said…
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said Thursday she voted against a measure this week creating a bipartisan select committee on the security, economic, and technological challenges posed to the U.S.…
The State Department on Thursday restated U.S. opposition to the normalization of relations with the Assad regime, acknowledging that the issue has led to differences with some U.S. allies and…
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday praised President Biden for not having built “even one meter of wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border, noting that it is a situation that “the…
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), chairman of a new select committee on challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party, said Tuesday it was essential it was a bipartisan effort: “The CCP doesn’t…
During a visit to Kentucky last week, President Biden raised some eyebrows when he declared, in reference to America, that other countries in the world are “not a patch on our jeans.”
The State Department said on Thursday it will with immediate effect begin calling Turkey “Türkiye,” after a request from the Turkish Embassy.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that when he heard it was holding an emergency meeting on a government’s minister’s “quiet, orderly and…
Seventeen years after it was created as the United Nations’ foremost human rights body, the Human Rights Council begins 2023 with its smallest contingent yet of free democracies, prompting a…
State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday the administration was “deeply concerned” by a visit by Israel’s controversial new police minister to the most hotly-contested religious site in…
In his address to U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday night, Ukraine’s president characterized Iran’s supply of combat drones for Russia’s war on his country as collusion between two terrorist states, and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday night that American financial support for Kyiv’s defense against the Russian invasion “is not charity” but “an investment…
State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday the effort to restore the Iran nuclear deal “hasn’t been on the agenda” for months, but added that President Biden’s commitment to ensure Iran…