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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s two-and-a-half week push to reorganize USAID came to a head Tuesday after Trump signed an order placing almost all USAID workers on administrative leave. The order excludes “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”

Rebel forces in Syria overthrew President Bashar Al-Assad on December 8, after an 11-day offensive. The Military Operations Command, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and backed by Turkey, began the offensive on November 27 in Aleppo, and encountered little resistance en route to the capital Damascus. Assad fled the country, and was granted asylum by Russia.

U.S. policy allows the President to decide upon the use of nuclear weapons on his own. Isn’t it time for that to end?

Following news of his death, Western writers across the spectrum praised Navalny's efforts and advocacy for democratic reforms in Russia.

A plane from the Kremlin's Presidential Fleet spent 54 hours in Washington D.C. right before the Christmas holiday, but the federal government and mainstream media neglected to acknowledge its presence.

With several new reports emerging about the conditions in Ukraine, many key narratives the U.S. government and mainstream media have long reported as fact should be questioned and examined for potential media bias.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met this week after a bad year for US-China relations.

It’s entirely possible that by next November, analysts could look back at the Israel-Hamas war as a key contributing factor in Biden’s defeat.

Leaders from the 31 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met in Lithuania this week to discuss the goals and future of the alliance as war continues on the European continent.

Framing the border problems in the context of opioids rather than immigrants presents a potential benefit for GOP candidates.