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… -- While one war rages in Libya, another rages in Washington as to the necessity of U.S. action there. Indeed, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as much this weekend, noting that Libya was not a "vital national interest." But if Washington is looking for an Arab state in the t...

…Bedminster—amid Trumpish chandeliers, golf trophies, and tournament plaques—the president was flanked by Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, and his wife, Melania. Kellyanne Conway was at the lunch; so were Kushner and several others. This was one of the “make-...

…continuum of Lyndon Johnson's personality innocent boorishness ends and deliberate sadism begins. To have summoned then-Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon for a conference wherein he, the new president, sat defecating as he spoke, might charitably be an example of the forme...

…d by crime victims' rights advocates, as it will likely set a precedent. Acosta, who was appointed by Trump as the U.S. secretary of labor in 2017, is the focus of a separate Justice Department investigation into whether there was any prosecutorial misconduct in the Epstein case....

…dent Clearinghouse to track degree completion for students who move from one school to another. One question Education Secretary Arne Duncan will face, as he confers with colleges to create a ratings system within the next two years, is what kind of graduation rate the governmen...

…adership of the institutions Clinton admired and [Charles] Krauthammer disdained,” writes Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state in his book The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation. “But Clinton kept that beli...

…he United States for succor and support. The U.S. — having confronted China and injected itself into the issue via U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech at the ARF Foreign Minister's meeting in Hanoi in July 2010 — is only too happy to help — at least verbally and with...

… Nuclear Deal Dear Friend, This week, our featured video is as urgent as it gets. Just days after President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry announced the nuclear deal with Iran, Dennis Prager was in studio recording a video explaining why the deal is so dangerous, and h...

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…ive branch’s discretion to designate state sponsors of terror. See 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7)(A) (isting statutes that give Secretary of State authority to designate countries as sponsors of terrorism). Fi- nally, Defendants submit the purpose of(a)(5) was “to eliminate a foreign sta...

…e threatening to either the existing global order or the interests of its Asian neighbors. However, since Party general secretary Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the situation has changed. Under his leadership, China has significantly expanded the more assertive set of policies...

…iends at his various homes, including on Little St. James, federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta — who now serves as U.S. secretary of labor — worked with Epstein’s defense attorneys to craft an extraordinarily lenient plea deal. A federal judge ruled in February that Miami prosec...

…the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury. As chairman of Goldman Sachs, he had gone to Washington years before and asked for those changes. That made the banks not really investme...

…istration's Ukraine policy. The Administration is expected to continue its support for the actions of NATO, the IMF and Secretary of State Tillerson has reaffirmed in April 2017 that the U.S. will not lift sanctions against Russia as long President Putin does not hand Crimea back...