WASHINGTON, April 30 (Yonhap) -- A Pentagon official on Thursday declined to comment on a potential U.S. force posture change in South Korea, but highlighted the United States' "unwavering" defense commitment to the Asian ally, amid reemerging concerns over the possibility of a troop drawdown in Korea.
LAST year, I wrote about a word that briefly escaped the confines of legal language and entered everyday conversation: “forthwith.” It appeared in Article XI, Section 3(4) of the 1987 Constitution, where it provides that impeachment trial by the Senate shall “forthwith proceed.” At the time, I turned to dictionaries…
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for White House Correspondence Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen gave an absurd reason for why the CalTech grad should be allowed to walk free pending trial — despite charges that he attempted to assassinate President Trump.
Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has stopped the May 16 congressional primaries from going ahead after the Supreme Court struck down the Pelican State’s House map Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, telling him to focusing on ending the Ukraine war instead of "interfering" on Iran.
WASHINGTON — After weeks of bitter infighting, the House passed a renewal of the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 spy power for the duration of President Trump’s term.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Adam Hamilton, a Methodist mega-church pastor from Kansas, talks to voters as he wraps up a U.S. Senate listening tour on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Limitless Brewing in Lenexa, Kansas. (AP Photo/Heather Hollingsworth)
The White House is reportedly fighting Anthropic’s plan to expand access to Claude Mythos – a powerful AI tool that company execs have warned could cause a wave of hacks and terror attacks if it fell into the wrong hands.
U.S. Secret Service agents respond on stage during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Mark Sanford, former congressman and South Carolina governor, takes questions from reporters as he campaigns for his former U.S. House seat at a Dorchester County GOP event Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Summerville, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
The Pentagon’s latest cost assessment of the war against Iran is a lowball figure that does not include the extensive damage to US military bases during the conflict, CNN has reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans barely passed a budget blueprint to unlock more than $70 billion in future funding for immigration enforcement late Wednesday in a vote that was held open for more than five hours due to intra-party disputes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak to reporters in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling to strike down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Ukraine will seek clarification from US President Donald Trump's team on details of a Russian proposal for a brief ceasefire next week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.
Despite clearly intentionally leaked reports about top American military officials briefing US President Donald Trump on new escalatory and potentially imminent military options versus Iran, all signs from Israeli and American sources to The Jerusalem Post are that the near future will see more of the current game o…
The cost of the Iran war to the US may be close to $40-50 billion when including the costs of rebuilding US military installations and replacing destroyed assets, CNN reported on Thursday.
SENATOR Loren Legarda on Wednesday urged Malacañang to take a clear stand on the suspension of value-added tax (VAT) on fuel, following statements that such a move requires an act of Congress.
Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,” he said, seated next to US President Donald Trump.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin did not invite U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow next week, the Kremlin said Thursday, a day after the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time in months.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin did not invite U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow next week, the Kremlin said Thursday, a day after the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time in months.
O presidente Donald Trump elevou ainda mais o tom contra a Alemanha nesta quarta-feira (29/04) ao sugerir que poderia em breve reduzir a presença militar dos EUA no país europeu, um aliado na Otan.
Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday she was suspending her campaign for the US Senate — clearing the way for far-left candidate Graham Platner to face five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
El canciller alemán Friedrich Merz conduce el vehículo blindado Boxer durante su visita al ejército en la base de la Bundeswehr en Münster, Alemania, el jueves 30 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Markus Schreiber, pool)
US President Donald Trump’s envoy for South Asia, Sergio Gor, is visiting Nepal on Thursday, hoping to clinch a meeting with a prime minister averse to meeting to junior officials from foreign countries, local media has reported.
Locked in a standoff with Iran that will break only when economic pain is no longer tolerable, President Donald Trump may have to maintain his naval blockade against Iran for weeks — forcing serious economic consequences on the world.
BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday stressed Germany’s deep military cooperation with Washington — despite Donald Trump's threat to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany.
President Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the US military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the US-Israel war against Iran.
The Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has accused the United States of driving instability across the Middle East, linking regional tensions to Washington’s military footprint and its joint war with Israel against Iran.
KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, afirmó en una publicación en Telegram que está recabando los detalles de un alto el fuego a corto plazo propuesto por Rusia al presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump.
The Palestinian Authority has continued making payments to terrorists and their families, despite promises to end the pay-for-slay programs, the US State Department informed Congress last month, the department confirmed on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration “zealously” investigated, penalized, and engaged in “aggressive prosecutions” of Christians “with traditional biblical views” — ignoring their conscientious objections and even secretly keeping tabs on Catholic priests, a Department of Justice task force found.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz drives in the armoured fighting vehicle Boxer during his visit to the army at the Bundeswehr base in Munster, Germany, Thursday, April, 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — El líder supremo de Irán afirmó el jueves que la República Islámica protegerá sus “capacidades nucleares y de misiles” como un activo nacional, mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, intenta alcanzar un acuerdo sobre esas cuestiones.