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Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America's, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our ...

WASHINGTON -- The first daily press briefing of President Donald Trump 2.0 was not what many predicted last year. Before Trump re-took the White House, there had been speculation that Trump World would eject the daily press briefings from the James S ...

Today is Good Friday, the most somber day on the Christian calendar. It marks the afternoon when Jesus of Nazareth was tortured to death by the Romans outside the city walls of Jerusalem at a place known as Calvary. The New Testament chronicles how ...

For most of the past six decades, the United States has been facing the threat of implosion from a growing federal budget deficit. Today, that threat is no longer lurking. It is here. The annual federal budget deficit has left Americans saddled with ...

Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion ...

As he weighs whether to commit American air power to supplement Israel's shockingly effective aerial attacks on Iran, President Trump issued an ambiguous - and ominous - threat aimed at Iran's 86-year-old leader. The United States knows where ...

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine, calls "tendentious history"? This week, it started to ...

Back at the White House, on the evening of his second inauguration, President Trump did something on the first day that his predecessor never bothered to do in four years: He sat and took questions in the Oval Office as reporters peppered him with ...

The case for protectionism revolves around a host of doom-and-gloom myths that we should not accept. "We don't make anything anymore!" I don't know how many times I've heard defenders of President Donald Trump's new tariff regime bleakly note that ...

Vice President JD Vance's speech Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was also a speech that encapsulates an entire ...