Feb 7 2025 US homeland security leader official set to visit Guantanamo Bay

Kristi Noem says Thursday’s flight to US naval base in Cuba ‘transported murderers & vicious gang members out of American streets’ [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 Senate confirms Pam Bondi as US attorney general

Republicans have praised Bondi as a highly qualified leader they contend will bring much-needed change to a department they believe unfairly pursued Trump [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 ‘High threat’ undocumented migrants sent to Guantanamo

Pentagon has deployed 300 Marines to Guantanamo to expand facilities to support holding operations for undocumented immigrants [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 Trump says U.S. will “own” Gaza Strip

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will “own” Gaza during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ten people are dead in a rare mass shooting in Sweden. A look at the plight of refugees from the Sudanese civil war. Plus, the Trump administration has new plans for the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, [...]

 

Feb 4 2025 Analysts: American Iron Dome reduces nuclear coercion but drives arms race

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to build an American version of the Iron Dome to shield the U.S. from aerial attacks will deter China and Russia from coercing the U.S. using nuclear weapons but could drive a three-way arms race, said analysts.  
 
The U.S. government’s Missile Defense Agency on Friday asked the defense industry [...]

 

Feb 4 2025 US judge blocks Trump from sending transgender women to men’s prisons

The decision marked the second time that a federal judge had sided with LGBTQ+ legal rights groups who sued to prevent the US Bureau of Prisons from implementing the order [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 Trump takes aim at new South African land expropriation law

US president threatens to pull funding to South Africa over belief that new expropriation law will ‘confiscate’ land [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 US Treasury says Musk team has ‘read-only access’ to payment data

Several thousand people gather outside the Treasury on Tuesday to protest DOGE’s Treasury access [Read More]

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Feb 4 2025 US tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect

Trump is seeking to pressure China to take action on those providing fentanyl precursors to Mexican cartels [Read More]

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Feb 3 2025 Rwanda-backed rebels in DRC declare a unilateral ceasefire

The city of 2 million people is at the heart of a region home to trillions of dollars in mineral wealth and remains in rebel control. [Read More]

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