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A snub from the White House, a controversial stay at Blair House, an encounter with Dave Chappelle’s mother and a CIA-arranged tryst — what happened when Congo’s beleaguered leader visited D.C. in 1960. OTTAWA, Ont. — Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly was supposed to deliver a major policy speech this month charting the future of…
Since Hamas’ attack, Israel has pushed dozens of online ads, including graphic videos, to millions of people to drum up support for its actions. Adapted from The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination","_id":"0000018b-3ab4-d05a-a19b-bbb4b8650000","_type":"02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266"}”>The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart…
The delivery and use on the battlefield marks a major ramp up of the administration’s defense of Ukraine. The Ukrainian military on Tuesday used U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to strike nine Russian helicopters in eastern Ukraine, after Washington secretly shipped the weapons in recent weeks. The delivery and use on the battlefield, confirmed by two people…
Top officials were worried that Kyiv’s offensive wasn’t going well. So they had an idea. It was mid-July, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan was worried. Ukrainian forces were struggling to penetrate Russian front lines in a slow-moving counteroffensive, and time was running out to retake significant territory before a renewed Russian offensive in the…
What will the judges do when he inevitably breaks their gag orders? Donald Trump has always perfumed his personal word cloud with sulfurous vitriol and dank insults. At an early point in the mid-1970s, as the on-the-make developer from Queens crashed the Manhattan scene, he learned that if he directed enough volume at his opponents,…
Between court dates, depositions and gag orders, Donald Trump’s legal problems are defining how he campaigns. Donald Trump was in a New York courtroom on Tuesday morning. Again. But he had to duck out early for a deposition in a different legal matter. Again. Trump’s firehose of civil and criminal encumbrances is beginning to keep…
Judge Tanya Chutkan spelled out her gag order against Donald Trump, but her written directive leaves many issues unsettled. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan’s gag order against Donald Trump is the first major consequence of his life as a criminal defendant. But in some ways, the order raises more questions than it answers —…
He wants to show the U.S. supports Israel, but there’s little appetite in the White House to make the Israel-Hamas fight the top foreign policy priority. President Joe Biden heads to Israel tomorrow not just to show support for a country during one of its darkest hours but to prevent the administration from getting bogged…
An expert on House speakers explains how changes in campaign finance, media, and the type of people who get elected created the current debacle. House Republicans’ multi-week scuffle over the speaker’s gavel — which will come to a head Tuesday when members are scheduled to vote on the nomination of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) —…
The Biden administration is urging Americans who want to leave to use one of the handful of remaining airlines still operating in Israel, or a ground route. The U.S. government is struggling to locate Americans stranded in Israel — and so far doesn’t seem likely to try to airlift them out, even as Hamas intensifies…
