As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the Cold War, the U.S. Army hatched a top secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland. In case of a Soviet attack, nukes dispersed in thousands of miles of cut-and-cover tunnels could be launched within…
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday deleted from his social media account a video clip depicting former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, following fierce backlash from Democrats and some Republicans who called it racist and urged the president to take it down. The White House initially defended the president’s post, saying it…
Welcome to Black History Month, 2026 style. President Trump posted a video Thursday to his social media site that contains animated images depicting former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House took down the post Friday, and after first calling it nothing more than a meme, they dubbed it a…
Laura Farnsworth Dogu is not, at first glance, your typical Trump appointee. A career diplomat with postings under the Obama and Biden administrations, she represents a branch of government President Trump has cut back and long vilified. Yet her selection for Trump’s top envoy to Venezuela signals a rare strategic choice, leveraging her experience with…
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s repeated calls to “nationalize” elections drew swift resistance from California officials this week, who said they are ready to fight should the federal government attempt to assert control over the state’s voting system. “We would win that on Day One,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta told The Times. “We would go into court…
Tulsi Gabbard’s political journey has been anything but straightforward. As a teenager, she worked for her father, a prominent anti-gay activist, and his political organization, which opposed same-sex marriage. In 2002, she was elected to Hawaii’s House of Representatives, becoming — at age 21 — the youngest person to serve in the Legislature. Gabbard was…
President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler. But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice — mostly — in a closed-door meeting at the White House that…
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that the federal government should “nationalize” elections, repeating — without evidence — his long-running claim that U.S. elections are beset by widespread fraud. Speaking on a podcast hosted by former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Trump said Republicans should “take over the voting in at least 15 places,” alleging that voting…
Less than a year after taking over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and appointing himself chairman, President Trump has announced that the venue will shut down for two years, beginning July 4, to undergo a major renovation. “This important decision … will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that…
Trump H-1B Visa Overhaul: Impact on Indian Professionals and US Tech Sector A once-strategic partnership between the United States and India, long built on mutual economic benefit, innovation and people-to-people ties, is now straining under sweeping immigration and trade policies implemented under former President Donald Trump’s administration. Policies such as the drastic H-1B visa fee…