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The letter President Donald Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre — first published by PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin and widely reprinted — contains a blunt opening linking Trump’s ...
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour foreign correspondent, published the text of a letter attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre — posting the text publicly on ...
Yes — the Biden administration officially increased a U.S. reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $25 million in January 2025, a move reported by major ...
There is clear, contemporaneous documentation that the Obama administration met with representatives and envoys of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood through mid- and high-level US officials; . Public reporti...
President Biden executed a time-bound withdrawal from Afghanistan: he set a May–September 2021 timetable and completed the pullout by the end of August 2021 rather than waiting for specific battlefiel...
was attacked on June 8, 1967 while operating in international waters — an attack recorded in and multiple contemporary documents . What remains disputed is intent: Israeli inquiries and many official ...
The Obama administration justified the targeted killing of at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, by treating him as a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda who posed a continuing, imminent threa...
President Trump’s daily routine in 2025 departs from several recent predecessors in timing, public visibility and habits: reporting shows more afternoon starts and fewer domestic public events (about ...
Donald Trump pushed for a near‑complete U.S. troop exit from Afghanistan during his presidency and 2020 re‑election campaign, culminating in a February 2020 U.S.–Taliban deal that set a May 1, 2021 wi...
Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy has shifted from rhetorical threats in his first term to a four‑month “pressure campaign” in late 2025 that included naval deployments, strikes on boats, expanded sanct...
Multiple official inquiries followed the June 8, 1967 attack on USS Liberty: U.S. reporting and secondary sources list roughly ten to eleven U.S. investigations and three Israeli inquiries, and Israel...
Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, has publicly accused President Barack Obama and senior Obama-era national security officials of “manufacturing” an intelligence assessment about Ru...
Federal employees are not universally required to sign a single, government-wide “loyalty pledge.” Recent rulemaking and political proposals have prompted heightened scrutiny and new vetting measures ...
officials have disclosed classified systems used in through a mix of internal controls, tightly limited briefings, formal declassification processes, and episodic releases or leaks to the public; thos...
saw a deliberate effort to drag technology and security from an ad‑hoc, 20th‑century patchwork into a coordinated, networked operation — through hiring Silicon Valley technologists, standing up and Pr...
Yes: multiple news outlets report that President Donald Trump sent a written message to Norway’s prime minister that explicitly tied his push to acquire Greenland to being denied the Nobel Peace Prize...
Jonas Gahr Støre has publicly said that the blunt letter from President Trump was sent in reply to a short text he and Finland’s president Alexander Stubb sent, and he has repeatedly told Trump that t...
U.S. law and executive policy constrain the CIA from exercising “police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions” domestically and bar routine collection of Americans’ domes...
A Justice Department task force and grand jury probes were opened this year to examine allegations that Obama administration officials manufactured or politicized intelligence about Russian activity i...
The United States played a decisive logistical and diplomatic role in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war by executing a major strategic airlift—Operation Nickel Grass—that delivered roughly of weapons, ammunit...