DUBAI Iran shot down a U.S. naval surveillance drone near the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian and U.S. officials said Thursday, adding to weeks of tensions in the Persian Gulf region amid growing concerns of a possible war. Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps said t…
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Joe Biden faced a growing backlash Wednesday from prominent Democrats and a bit of second guessing within his own campaign over comments in which he proudly described his history of working hand-in-hand in the Senate with avowed racists. Bidens remarks, whic…
THIRTEEN MINUTES before Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, the head of a hit team who was dispatched to intercept him asked the teams forensic doctor about dismembering the journalists body. It would, replied Salah Tubaig…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. In recent weeks, Pete Buttigieg had emerged as the surprise success of the 2020 presidential campaign. Polls showed him surging in key states, enchanted Democrats were forking over millions of dollars, and his husband, Chasten, had accumulate…
Last winter, the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro seemed a sure bet to President Trump, a quick foreign policy win at a time when other initiatives in Asia and the Middle East appeared stalled or headed in the wrong direction. Then came spring, …
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would make a highly effective but underused anti-HIV drug more accessible, tackling both its cost and the stigma it carries. Harris bill focuses on expanding a…
A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, hit back at President Donald Trumps increased rhetoric against the newspaper in a blistering opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal. Last weekend, Trump stepped up his attacks on the Times which hed pr…
President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he’s wrong about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Hannity frequently calls Pelosi the “speaker in name only” and claims Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is secretly the real speaker. …
DUBAI (Reuters) - Irans elite Revolutionary Guards have shot down a U.S. spy drone in the southern province of Hormozgan, the Guards news website Sepah News said on Thursday. State news agency IRNA carried the same report, identifying the drone as an RQ-4 Gl…
A coalition of liberal and advocacy groups is kicking off a new campaign to shame companies and politicians into lowering the price of insulin with a protest outside Eli Lilly’s Indianapolis headquarters on Thursday. The new campaign, Affordable Insulin NOW,…