The National Guard has long been America’s “break glass in case of emergency” force — and the glass has been thoroughly shattered. Over the last two decades, the Guard’s role has only grown. When it became clear that the Iraq War was dragging on longer than expected, the National Guard was deployed en masse to …
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Republican senators requested an investigation into President Biden’s order to pause border wall construction, saying Wednesday that the directive is “a blatant violation of federal law” because it blocks spending Congress specifically authorized. Led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the 40 senators asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate. While … View original article
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Fresh off a stop in Tokyo, President Joe Biden’s top diplomat and defense chief traveled to South Korea on Wednesday, a day after North Korea made sure it had their attention by warning the United States to “refrain from causing a stink” amid deadlocked nuclear … View original article
BEIRUT (AP) – A neglected provincial city amid the farmlands of the south, Daraa was the first place in Syria to explode into protests against the rule of President Bashar Assad in March 2011. Daraa saw the arc of Syria’s conflict. Protesters met by a vicious crackdown by Assad’s forces … View original article
BEIRUT (AP) – Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the country’s heartland. But in March 2011 it became the first to explode against the rule of President Bashar Assad. Assad’s decision … View original article
