Edwin Marian Johnston hold up a photo of her son US Marine CPL Edward Johnston who died in the bombing of his Lebanon barracks in 1983 outside Federal Court September 7, 2007 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a decision by a federal appeals court in […]
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Pompeo heads to Silicon Valley to dine with tech leaders
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on during a brief photo opportunity before a meeting with Republic of Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides at the U.S. Department of State on November 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit the San Francisco Bay Area this week […]
European stocks close lower as US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran
European stocks closed in negative territory on Friday, paring earlier gains after the U.S. announced fresh sanctions on Iran. The pan-European Stoxx 600 had dipped below the flatline by the closing bell, with most sectors and all major bourses in the red. The blue-chip stock index closed lower by 0.12%. The FTSE 100 in London […]
US slaps new sanctions on Iran following strikes on US targets
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions Friday on Iran’s metal exports and eight senior Iranian officials. The penalties came days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, last week. After […]
‘Don’t know precisely’ when or where Soleimani would attack
The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani had planned to attack Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said while maintaining the Trump administration’s line that such strikes were about to happen. “There was no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by Qasem […]
Efforts to rein in Trump’s war powers will backfire
President Donald Trump at the White House, January 7, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The last seven days in world events have created a new political paradigm. Call it “Trump Unleashed.” That’s because the attempts by President Donald Trump’s opponents to rein him in after his decision to take down Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are […]