The US is pausing a $14bn (£10.4bn) arms sale to Taiwan to ensure it has enough weapons for the Iran war, acting Navy secretary Hung Cao has said.Cao confirmed this at a Senate hearing, days after President Donald Trump appeared non-committal about the sale following his meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.A spokesperson for Taiwan's […]
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Cuba is a national security threat to the US, Rubio says – BBC
Cuba poses a "national security threat" to the US and the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is "not high", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.His comments come just a day after the US charged Cuba's former president Raúl Castro with murder over the 1996 downing of two planes resulting in the killing of […]
Nato chief welcomes US sending 5,000 troops to Poland – BBC
President Donald Trump says the US will send an extra 5,000 troops to Poland, a week after the Pentagon cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 troops to the country.Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed the move ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Sweden – adding the trajectory towards Europe becoming less reliant on […]
CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US – The Guardian
The decision by top editor Bari Weiss to end radio service represents another crack in the network that my grandfather, William S Paley, helped buildRecently, I spoke with a US senator about matters related to CBS News, a topic of our time for the wrong reasons. I was dismayed that he did not know who […]
Woman at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case gets nearly 42-year prison sentence – NBC News
news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeMINNEAPOLIS — A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.Subscribe to read […]