Judge rules against Trump effort to gut U.S. Institute of Peace

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday said she would resign in early January, after saying President Donald Trump unfairly criticized her. Read More 

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Rosalynn Carter, one-half of the longest-lived presidential couple in American history and perhaps the most egalitarian as well, died on Sunday, the Carter Center announced. She was 96. “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” former President Jimmy Carter said in a statement on Sunday. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement…

President Trump is frustrated by Iran continuing to throttle most shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil route. Read More 

The toxic political climate and a complex web of threats — punctuated by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump — is putting an extraordinary strain on the national security officials tasked with safeguarding American democracy. Security experts say sharp polarization and increasingly hateful political rhetoric — fanned by foreign adversaries and supercharged by social…

U.S. Ambassador to the EU Mark Gitenstein said China is “engaged in a deliberate effort to undermine economic sectors in both Europe and the United States.” Read More