by Amy L. Wong | Aug 5, 2026 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Justice Amy Coney Barrett told members of Congress that after the Dobbs decision in 2022 restricting abortion access, her security detail sent her home with a bulletproof vest. Her 12-year-old son asked her about it. “I didn’t know how to respond because...
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by Reece Dower | Jun 10, 2026 | Featured, Military, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s top officials conducted far fewer press briefings and interviews during a period of major combat operations than the department has in decades, a Medill News Service review of five previous U.S. military flashpoints showed. Instead,...
by Reece Dower | May 20, 2026 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s move to build a national missile defense system would leave millions of Americans vulnerable to nuclear attack despite the program’s exorbitant cost, the author of a new scientific report said at a press...
by Reece Dower | May 15, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The war in Iran has “significantly degraded” the Iranian regime’s military, the commander of U.S. military operations in the Middle East told lawmakers Thursday, flatly rejecting reports that most of Iran’s missile stockpiles...
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by Rebecka Eriksdotter Pieder | May 14, 2026 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) — A State Department official told Congress on Thursday that NATO remains a critical deterrent to Russian aggression, and he reaffirmed U.S. support for the Baltic states. That reassurance comes as the war in Iran has resulted in delayed...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk | May 12, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — American journalist Reza Valizadeh visited his elderly Iranian parents in March 2024 for the first time in 15 years. Valizadeh’s stories for Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded outlets often criticized the Iranian regime. So before...
