KABUL, Afghanistan — Fighting in Afghanistan will intensify sharply and Taliban militants could threaten major cities unless a Biden administration diplomatic push to end the 20-year conflict yields results in the next two months, according to two senior U.S. commanders. The tight time frame is driven by a May 1 deadline to withdraw the remaining …
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, wouldn’t call the border situation a crisis two weeks ago. Now, he says, it’s reached that point. Mr. Judd said the Border Patrol is surging agents to the U.S.-Mexico boundary, pulling them off regular duty stations at the northern border or … View original article
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army reservist charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol was known as a Nazi sympathizer who wore a Hitler mustache, coworkers told federal investigators. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, 30, was employed as a security contractor at a Navy base when he was alleged to have breached the Capitol on …
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More than two months after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election, Sen. Gary Peters, one of the leaders of an investigation into that attack, says it’s still baffling why law enforcement and the military weren’t better prepared. But he expects that the threat, …
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters on the plane to Hawaii that bolstering alliances and partnerships with other countries is the focus of his whirlwind trip to the Indo-Pacific region. Recognizing the importance of India in any effort to check an increasingly assertive China, Mr. Austin is expected to … View original article
