Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson paid a visit to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada this week to research her next role: Air Force officer-turned-Avenger Captain Marvel.
A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win: incremental progress as partners in a part of the world the Pentagon has identified as vital for the United States to compete with China and Russia.
More than 16 years and hundreds of deployments into the war in Afghanistan, the story of the first ground troops to strike back after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Tuesday for nations to step up the U.S.-led “maximum pressure” campaign against North Korea by thwarting efforts to evade sanctions and interdicting ships conducting illicit trade with the pariah nation.
Republicans and Democrats have argued for years that the war authorizations Congress passed after 9/11 have since been overstretched by successive presidents and that Congress must reassert its war-making powers.