President Donald Trump’s plan to use the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to detain 30,000 immigrants has been hitting major legal, logistical and financial hurdles ever since he surprised many in his own administration by announcing it. Now, as agencies spar over responsibility for operations there…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is moving to terminate Pentagon offices and positions that focus on preventing and responding to civilian harm during U.S. combat operations, according to three defense officials. Employees at the Pentagon’s Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response office,…
If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not exactly a happy one, either. Instead, it…
Germany’s Merz strikes ‘game-changing’ deal to boost defence spending Financial Times German parties agree on historic debt overhaul to revamp military and economy Reuters Germany Paves Way for Defense Spending Increase The Wall Street Journal Germany’s CDU, SPD agree on major financial package DW…
A Ukrainian strike drone. Unmanned Systems Forces photo Fanning out across western and southern Russia and Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine last night, Ukrainian drones struck no fewer than five Russian oil facilities, the Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv reported. It was…
Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who made Blue Nun one of the most popular wines in the world in the…
With his flailing of Ukraine’s leader, Donald Trump is making clearer than ever that he cares more about power than friends — a chilling message for America’s global network of allies. In the eight decades since World War II, the…
One day after Israel began halting the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip, Palestinians there are already feeling the effects of the sweeping measure, with prices of essential goods on the rise. “It was a…
CNN — Pope Francis experienced “two episodes of acute respiratory failure,” the Vatican said Monday, marking the latest in a series of medical crises the 88-year-old pontiff has endured since he was first hospitalized last month. Monday’s episodes were caused…