Since cutting the overseas aid budget to fund higher defence spending losing the excellent Anneliese Dodds in the process Labour has had little to say on the subject, aside from the fact that 0.3% of national income is the new normal. But despite the cuts, Foreign Office sources insist that behind the scenes there is a renewed commitment to winning the argument for the impact and benefits of international development.
Hamilton, who also led a congressional probe of the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra affair while representing a rural southern Indiana district, died peacefully in his home in Bloomington, Indiana, said his son Doug Hamilton, who did not cite a specific cause. Hamilton was at the forefront of congressional opposition to the 1991 Persian Gulf War waged by President George H.W. Bush and advocated continued economic sanctions against Iraq before military action over its invasion of Kuwait.
This is the first article in a two-part Q&A series with San Francisco's major congressional candidates about foreign policy. Part one focuses on Congress and the military with questions about Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela. Part two, which will be published Wednesday morning, focuses on trade, foreign aid and the relationship between the U.S, China, and Taiwan.
Nine young men who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 said they do not support Vice President J.D. Vance as the Republican nominee in 2028, according to a Politico report published Friday, with one voter expressing that he thinks it's time for someone new. The 18- to 24-year-olds took part in a Monday focus group run by communications firm Longwell Partners and shared with Politico, with all but one saying they would rather see another nominee and the lone holdout remaining unconvinced.
The Trump administration's immigration agenda has taken a sharper turn in 2026, as reports of ICE agents using increasingly aggressive tactics have become more frequent. Driving the news: Only 38% of Americans approve of Trump's immigration enforcement, down 49% from March, according to the AP-NORC poll, shortly after 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent.
Step one: praise the boss, effusively, as a hero. (A sample post from Rubio's X account: "Thank you @POTUS for standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the courage to do before.") Step two: explain that whatever unprecedented thing the President has just done-capturing the head of state of another country in the middle of the night, promising to take control of Greenland -is, in fact, entirely normal.
The U.S. mission to seize Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has pushed the concept of regime change back into everyday conversation. "Regime Change in America's Back Yard," declared The New Yorker in a piece that typified the response to the Jan. 3 operation that saw Maduro exchange a compound in Caracas for a jail in Brooklyn. Commentators and politicians have been using the term as shorthand for removing Maduro and ending Venezuela's crisis, as if the two were essentially the same thing.
"We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else," Miller said. "But we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power." "These are the iron laws of the world that existed since the beginning of time."
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Mr. Dickinson criticizes the East Bay Times for never publishing anything positive about the current president. I have no doubt the East Bay Times will publish such a story if and when such a situation occurs. The Times did report on the president's efforts in getting to a ceasefire and hostage release regarding the war in Israel and Gaza. Other than that, I honestly can't point to anything positive the president has done, especially given all his campaign promises of lowering prices and only deporting the "worst of the worst."
In the email, employees are told to "refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging" and "USG funds should not be used for any World AIDS Day events or commemorative activities". The move is part of the government's wider policy to "to refrain from messaging on any commemorative days, including World AIDS Day", noted in the email which was also viewed by The New York Times.
When Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia congresswoman who rose to prominence as one of his most loyal allies, on November 15, many dismissed it as just another episode of political theatre. But the moment marks something far more significant than a personal falling-out. It reveals a deepening civil war inside the Republican Party over who will lead the conservative movement after Trump, and over what America First should really mean.
Speaking in Bahrain on Sunday, Anwar Gargash, the UAE's senior diplomatic envoy, said the UAE and others had been wrong not to impose sanctions on the instigators of the 2021 coup jointly led by the RSF and the army that overthrew Sudan's transitional civilian government. We all made a mistake when the two generals who are fighting the civil war today overthrew the civilian government, Gargash said.
The leakers and media are at it again, undermining the President's foreign policy. POTUS says there was no yelling at Zelensky, as the media reported. Zelensky said it was a positive meeting. We have seen the same thing between POTUS and Netanyahu, submitted Levin on Monday night. Someone or some people are relentlessly leaking and undermining President Trump and our allies. The perp or perps must be found out and removed, asap.
"This election is really about the future orientation of this country," Lipavsky told DW. "For the first time, forces that are openly collaborating with Putin's Russia are reaching for power." "That's the main reason why I'm running in this election," he continued, "I believe we can succeed in maintaining the pro-Western course of the country. And that's incredibly important."
