The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World ...

We speak with two Iranian scholars ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline set by President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of all its power plants, bridges and other ...

Iranian missiles and drones continue to target U.S. military bases and other infrastructure in Gulf countries. In Kuwait, CBS News reports 15 U.S. service members were injured in an Iranian drone ...

In Turkey, one attacker was killed and two others were wounded in a gunfight with police near a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul. Turkey’s interior minister said the three attackers ...

The United Nations says the number of people displaced in Lebanon has grown to over 1.1 million, as Israeli forces continue to invade Lebanon’s south while bombing Beirut and other sites across the ...

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people and wounded several others Monday at a school housing displaced Palestinians in the Maghazi refugee camp. In a separate attack, an Israeli ...

President Trump has renewed his threats to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure, warning that every power plant and every major bridge in Iran could be destroyed if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully ...

In Iran, state media reports U.S.-Israeli attacks targeted at least a dozen cities on Monday, killing at least 34 people, including six children. Among the targets was the Sharif University of ...

A pair of Democratic lawmakers is calling on President Trump to immediately end his oil blockade of Cuba. Democratic Congressmembers Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to dismiss the criminal case against Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief White House strategist. The justices set aside a ...

The Trump administration has terminated civil rights settlements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college to protect transgender students — a move unprecedented ...

Amy Goodman will appear at Sonoma State University to deliver this year’s H. Andréa Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture.