Was The World Really Peaceful During Donald Trump's Era? Analysis Reveals Complex Layers Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that the world was a more peaceful place during his tenure. However, his own national security advisers have a different take on the matter. 04/28/2024 - 8:47 pm | View Link
Stress-Testing Trump’s Claims That the World Was Calmer on His Watch There was no war on par with the current ones in Ukraine or Gaza, but there were sharp conflicts and some near crises during the Trump administration. 04/28/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
U.S. Fixation on Nuclear Deal Let Iran Loose on the Middle East Argument: U.S. Fixation on Nuclear Deal Let Iran Loose on the Middle East Create an FP account to save articles to read later and in the FP mobile app. Sign Up ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN Print ... 04/25/2024 - 8:22 am | View Link
How Iran’s ‘kamikaze’ Shahed drones are being used in Ukraine Here’s a look at how Shahed drones, recently used by Iran amid mounting tensions with Israel, are being used by Russia on Ukraine’s frontlines. 04/22/2024 - 4:59 am | View Link
As Israel-Iran clash cools, Gaza’s crisis remains By the weekend, the immediate threat of escalation seems to have been lifted between Iran and Israel. But there’s less reason for optimism when it comes to Gaza. 04/21/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has raised a whopping $18.3 million dollars this election cycle to help GOP incumbents and candidates — putting him ahead of his leadership opponent Sen. John Thune (R-S. D), Axios reports.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to make the case on Sunday that he can do something no third-party or independent candidate has come close to doing in modern U. S. history: win a presidential election. Although polls show him far behind, both major-party campaigns, those of President Biden and former President Donald Trump, view Mr.
“Nearly seven months after the Israel-Hamas war began, the demonstrations convulsing college campuses nationwide are exposing fresh tensions within the Democratic Party over how to balance free speech protections and support for Gazans with concerns that some Jewish Americans are raising about antisemitism,” the New York Times reports.
“From New York and Los Angeles to Atlanta and Austin, a surge in student activism has manifested in protest encampments and other demonstrations, drawing significant police crackdowns and sometimes appearing to attract outside agitators.
“Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote,” Bloomberg reports.
“Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in what had been a party stronghold in Shimane prefecture.”
“Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months as prime minister fending off internal Conservative Party criticism and rumors of plots to oust him. So far it’s come to nothing — though his team is taking nothing for granted this week,” Bloomberg reports.
“His critics on the Tory right have spent months gearing up for Thursday’s local and mayoral elections across England as their final chance to oust Sunak.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley refused to pull over for speeding and went home and called the police chief to quash the incident instead. That's a no-no.
Unfortunately for her (or fortunately for the rule of law), the entire incident was recorded on the officer's bodycam and now DA Doorley has to explain why she has such reckless disregard for the law, police officers, and common sense.
And although a Republican now (of course), Doorley has been a Democrat in the past.