US military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.
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2 days agoBurgeoning commerce in recent years has helped grow Beijing's influence in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of strategic significance for the United States. ...
2 days agoMark Pomerantz, who led the New York investigation into Trump's finances, resigned on February 23 along with Carey Dunne, the other lead prosecutor on the case.
3 years agoWith aligned interests, the armed forces of Indonesia and the United States are seeking new ways to cooperate even closer, at a time when the superpower rivalry between the US and China heats up.
3 years agoSeveral Ukrainians told Reuters they passed through a checkpoint in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana this week and were granted permission to remain in the country until 2023.
3 years ago"I just tested positive for COVID. I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise," the 60-year-old tweeted, adding his wife Michelle Obama had tested negative.
3 years agoThe procedure raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation, and the team behind the operation say they are "optimistic" about its future success.
3 years agoTrump was flying from New Orleans to Palm Beach in Florida on Saturday after delivering a speech to Republican Party donors, the news outlet Politico said, citing "two people familiar with the matter."
3 years agoIn a statement published on Conde Nast's website on Tuesday, chief executive Roger Lynch said the company was "shocked and horrified by the senseless violence and tragic humanitarian crisis in Ukraine."
3 years agoThe long-standing president in Moscow has been "stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years," CIA Director William Burns told US lawmakers.
3 years agoThe trip, the highest-level US visit to Venezuela in years, came as part of a US effort to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some analysts also see US-sanctioned Venezuela as a potential alternate source of oil supplies should Washington attempt to restrict Moscow's energy shipments.
3 years agoGuilfoyle, who worked on Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, abruptly ended an interview with the Select Committee on Feb. 25, criticizing House of Representatives members who were present.
3 years agoAs he delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, praising the Ukrainian "wall of strength" that has stood tall against Russian invaders, Biden made clear there would be no US boots on the ground in the week-old war on Europe's doorstep.
3 years agoThe far-right Bolsonaro, who undertook a controversial visit to Moscow on February 16 to meet with President Vladimir Putin just as Russian leaders were finalizing plans for their full-scale invasion, said his Russian counterpart confided some "secret" issues about Ukraine in their lengthy conversation.
3 years agoUtah Governor Spencer Cox became the latest over the weekend, instructing the state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Saturday to take off all Russian-produced and branded products from the shelves of its retail stores.
3 years agoSpeaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, the former president spent 86 minutes reprising many of his favorite applause lines, assailing the "radical left" and its "witch hunt" against him.
3 years agoThe loans, worth $2.3 billion and provided to Cuba by Russia between 2006 and 2019, helped underwrite investments in power generation, metals and transportation infrastructure, according to a statement from the lower house, or Duma.
3 years agoThe app was also automatically downloaded to Apple device users who pre-ordered the app ahead of the anticipated launch.
3 years ago"My biggest concern as foreign affairs minister is the foreign interference that is happening in the convoy we're seeing in Canada right now -- this information campaign, where it comes from, the financing of it where it comes from," she told the Munich Security Conference.
3 years agoThe former president is the target of several lawsuits by elected officials and police who accuse him of being directly responsible for the violence perpetrated by his supports when they stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
3 years agoThe ruling is the latest legal blow to the 75-year-old as he fights numerous cases that threaten to complicate any bid for another run at the White House in 2024.
3 years agoMazars informed the Trump Organization in a letter last Wednesday that it would no longer work for the company, which is being probed by New York prosecutors for alleged fraud.
3 years agoGaëtan, Derek, Ariana, Marc-André, Jessyca -- hundreds of signatures are scrawled in black marker all over the vehicle.
3 years ago"As we know, he had a fixation on this relationship," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN. The revelation is contained in her upcoming book on Trump, "The Confidence Man."
3 years agoIn an angry rant delivered Tuesday on One America News, the congresswoman from Georgia described the Washington jail housing US Capitol riot suspects as a "DC Gulag," and denounced US House Speaker "Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police spying on members of Congress."
3 years agoThe White House has indicated a preference for traditional manufacturers employing unionized workers, and Musk has made his feelings about that proclivity known.
3 years agoThe paper has been trying to diversify its offerings and has successfully launched subscriptions to cooking recipes or to a games platform structured around crossword puzzles.
3 years agoSurrounded by "Trump Won" flags at a rally Saturday in Texas, the loser of the 2020 election teased another run for president and dangled impunity for those who waged last year's attack on the Capitol in a failed bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.
3 years agoTrump, who has not said whether he will run for president again after his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, was speaking at a rally in Conroe, Texas.
3 years ago"This is a bittersweet day for me," Biden said during an appearance with the justice at the White House, noting that he has known Breyer since the 1970s.
3 years agoSpeaking after a meeting with Honduras' new president, Xiomara Castro, Harris told reporters they did not discuss China.
3 years agoAs journalists were leaving the room after the event, a reporter from Fox News, the favorite channel of conservatives, asked whether inflation is a political liability.
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