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Islamic Republic has sent weapons to the Houthis in Yemen and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The outgoing U.N. ambassador calls attacks on ships an ‘arrogant act’ and violation of international law.

Russia has been in violation of the Cold War-era treaty for at least four years.

Bellingcat’s amateurs excel at the intelligence game.

Draft legislation from Ted Cruz would require the administration to penalize a key financial cooperative if it doesn’t cut off Iranian banks.

Similar measures worked in 2012.

Left unchecked, document says, the Islamic Republic will use whatever means it can to continue terror financing.

Pompeo says Iran has been using the ICJ for ‘propaganda purposes.’

Under Pompeo, the State Department is getting its swagger back

A letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein stands in contrast to a similar letter from Yale law students.

Drones are an evolving security threat, from intel gathering to targeting individuals. Is the U.S. prepared?

Grassley, citing Dem opposition, says: “I question the sincerity of demands for more documents.”

Standing beside a collection of empty boxes labeled “Missing Records” on Tuesday, Minority leader Chuck Schumer redoubled Democrats’ calls for documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as staff secretary in the Bush administration.

“We want to do something that changes behavior,” says Majority whip John Cornyn.

The secretary of state faced lawmakers still angry about the president’s Helsinki press conference.

Legislation names Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic State, and Boko Haram as examples.

Marco Rubio warns that the United States is not ready for the havoc that impersonation technology can wreak.

The Senate majority leader did not mention the president by name, and in response to a question later said, “I'm not here to critique anyone else. I'm here to speak for myself.”

The Arizona senator leads a chorus of GOP condemnations of the president’s press conference with Vladimir Putin.

In wake of a new indictment against Russian agents, Dan Coats warns that Moscow’s 'actions are persistent, they’re pervasive, and they’re meant to undermine America’s democracy.'

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement triggered alarm among left-wing lawmakers and activists by giving Donald Trump his second Supreme Court nominee in less than two years. It also inspired some to revive the idea of "packing the court" with additional Democratic appointees as soon as circumstances…

The Kentucky senator is staying mum about any concerns he may have regarding Kavanaugh’s views on spying powers.

“They can probably create some bumps in the road,” Senate majority whip John Cornyn said of Democrats in opposition, “But they can’t stop it.”

Ahead of the meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are reaffirming support for sanctions levied against Russia after its annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Intelligence committee affirms assessment issued in January 2017 that Putin approved the influence campaign.

The Utah senator is on President Trump's short list to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.

North Korea understands what the United States means when it demands complete denuclearization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told lawmakers Wednesday.

State Department official warns that countries that refuse risk sanctions.

In a potential Trump-Putin meeting, senators would want the president to talk about Syria, Ukraine, and election meddling.

Nikki Haley cites the inclusion of countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, and China on the council.

No decisions have been made on future exercises, Defense Department says.

Allegations of fraud, theft, bigamy, and violence surround Imran Awan.

The administration has been tough on the Putin regime but the president himself has been inconsistent.

Officials also staged “roadshows” encouraging foreign financial engagement with the Islamic Republic.

Under secretary Sigal Mandelker warns companies about the risks of dealing with the Islamic Republic.

Lawmakers lay out a list of demands to President Trump ahead of planned summit.

“Hybrid warfare is already here and America is not ready," says Nebraska senator.

Sanctions target Iran's infamous Evin Prison and the director of a key state-run media corporation.

Senate committee approves amendment requiring the reporting in annual defense authorization bill.

Republicans praise the president, Democrats call him a poor negotiator.

The secretary of state tells a House committee that much work must be done.

Secretary of state lays out new Iran strategy in first major foreign policy address.

In first major foreign policy address, the secretary of state does an about-face on Obama-era efforts to downplay ties between the two.

Ranking Democrat on the Intelligence committee Mark Warner noted she has widespread support at Langley.

Allies, committed to deal and looking to preserve economic benefits to Tehran, risk U.S. sanctions

She is expected to get enough support in the full Senate to be confirmed.

Tributes to cancer-stricken Arizona senator dominate Freedom Award dinner.

A memo circulating on Capitol Hill recommends several steps to deter Europe from potentially evading U.S. sanctions.

The former clandestine officer said she would not allow the CIA to engage in morally objectionable behavior under her watch.

The nominee to be the agency's first female director helped tear down an old-boys culture.

President says U.S. will work with allies, who are staying in the deal, on a ‘lasting solution.’

Haspel has ringing endorsements from top former intelligence officials, but Democrats aren’t impressed.

Netanyahu’s address triggers heated rhetoric from opponents and detractors of the deal.

The Israeli prime minister said his country has obtained thousands of the Islamic Republic’s secret documents.

What sort of nuclear cooperation has been taking place under the auspices of the deal?

Seven Democratic caucus members voted for Donald Trump’s pick to lead the State Department.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday reiterated support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in his address to the U.S. Congress. His remarks drew cheers from Democrats but a chilly reception from Iran hawks who want to withdraw from the deal.

Kentucky senator reversed his opposition to Trump’s secretary of state pick and helped move him out of committee.

Senate Democrats try to block Pompeo.

Democrats are largely opposed to Trump’s pick for secretary of state. Do they think they will get someone better?

Lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduce legislation to do just that.

UK and France join U.S.-led effort.

The secretary of state nominee faced repeated questioning about Mueller.

The Facebook founder faced five hours of questioning by senators; on Wednesday he's back to face the House.

The U.N. ambassador slams Putin’s regime and Iran for abetting Bashar al-Assad.

The Trump administration's decision to go after Russian leader Vladimir Putin's inner circle with sanctions is being praised as a long-awaited, highly significant response to the Kremlin's destabilizing activities.

The White House said in a statement Wednesday that the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria is approaching completion, but did not indicate any change for the time being in troop levels, despite suggestions to that effect from the president in recent days.

In his final public remarks as White House national security adviser, H.R. McMaster offered a stinging rebuke of Russian violations of sovereignty and attempts to sow discord in free societies, activities for which he said the U.S. and its allies must impose higher costs.

The Russian Cultural Center, which sits in a restored mansion on a quiet, leafy block in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, hosts language classes, lectures, and concerts with the stated goal of maintaining positive relations between Russians and Americans. For the second time in five years, it…

Russia is expelling 60 U.S. diplomats and closing the American consulate in St. Petersburg in what the Kremlin described as a tit-for-tat response to the Trump administration's expulsions of Russian operatives earlier this week.

The Trump administration’s decision to expel dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States earned bipartisan approval this week, with some of the president’s toughest congressional critics praising the move while calling for further action.

Arizona senator John McCain is asking the president’s pick for CIA director to expand on her involvement in the agency’s enhanced interrogation program, amid adamant objections to her nomination from one other Republican lawmaker.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will be swapping out national security adviser H.R. McMaster for former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, known Russia hawk, come mid-April.

The House Intelligence Committee voted on party lines Thursday to begin the declassification process for a GOP-led report that Republicans say caps the panel’s yearlong investigation into 2016 Russian election interference.

Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse on Wednesday slammed the White House’s refusal to condemn the fraudulence of Russia’s election, describing the dodge as a break “with basic American moral tradition.”

Top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian election interference on Tuesday marked the end of a critical portion of their probe focused on election security, and offered up a preview of the panel’s recommendations to counter foreign meddling in the midst of the 2018…

The result of the Russian election was no surprise, and neither is the list of foreign leaders who lined up to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his victory.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker said on Sunday that he expects President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal in May if progress is not made to fix it by then.

The opening shots in the battle over Gina Haspel's nomination to lead the CIA badly missed their target Thursday, when ProPublica corrected a report that featured a number of false allegations about Haspel's involvement in the CIA's enhanced interrogation program. Senator Rand Paul, who repeatedly…

The United States does not have a "bloody nose strategy" for a limited preemptive strike against North Korea, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific said Thursday.

California senator Dianne Feinstein is calling on the CIA to release documents detailing the involvement of Trump’s pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel, in the agency’s detention and interrogation program.

United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday blamed Russia for using chemical weapons to poison an ex-spy in the United Kingdom.

Kentucky senator Rand Paul said he would oppose the president’s picks for secretary of state and CIA director, criticizing one over what he described as support for regime change and both for their links to torture.

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that he would be disappointed if Democrats raised fresh objections to the nomination of Gina Haspel as CIA director.

The Senate’s top Iran hawks heaped praise on the president’s nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday, and critics of the deal on and off Capitol Hill expressed confidence that Pompeo’s presence would place renewed pressure on negotiations to fix…

This story is developing and will be updated as necessary.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee said Monday that they did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin in a more than yearlong probe of 2016 Russian election interference.

This is a developing story and has been updated with new information.

Republican lawmakers greeted with cautious openness the announcement that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet, reminding the president of years of failed talks with Pyongyang and urging him not to ease economic pressure just yet.

President Donald Trump will meet with Kim Jong-un by May amid a commitment from the North to denuclearization, South Korea’s national security adviser said Thursday.

Top lawmakers are pushing to expand sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), amid a declaration from a senior IRGC official that Iran’s missile production has tripled.

Two top intelligence chiefs appeared wary Tuesday about North Korea’s apparent willingness to engage in talks related to its nuclear program and to halt weapons testing while doing so.

Legislation that would pressure the Palestinian Authority to stop monetarily rewarding acts of terror is moving toward final passage, according to one of the bill’s top backers.

Guatemala will relocate its embassy to Jerusalem in May, two days after the United States is slated to make the same move, the country’s president said Sunday.

The State Department signed off on a potential $47 million sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launch units to Ukraine Thursday, moving the planned purchase one step closer to completion.

Senators on both sides of the aisle shot back at Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday after he boasted in an annual state-of-the-union address that Russia possesses nuclear weapons capable of bypassing missile defense systems.

The Trump administration is revving up an effort to counter foreign state propaganda and disinformation, including from Russia, after a months-long funding lag and criticism from lawmakers.

Iran has boosted its investments in militant and terrorist groups across the Middle East since the enactment of the 2015 nuclear deal, the nation’s top general who oversees U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.

For the past three years, Russian opposition activists say, authorities have attempted to erase any trace of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in the spot where he was murdered—on a bridge just outside the Kremlin. But on Tuesday morning, Russian officials will wake up to an inescapable reality: The…

The Trump administration made clear on Friday, with what it described as the largest set of sanctions against North Korea yet, that it will continue to isolate Pyongyang even as the South seeks to engage with the North.

Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians on Friday for their efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process. In the days since, President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter, pushing back hard on suggestions that his campaign colluded with the Kremlin, denying that he said Russia…

Top Democratic leaders are calling to provide the FBI and Department of Homeland Security with hefty funding boosts to expose and counter Russian election interference ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

The State Department is denying that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday described Hezbollah as a legitimate actor in the Lebanese government, after the secretary’s comments drew harsh criticism from regional experts.

California congressman Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that the panel is negotiating with the FBI about narrowly redacting sensitive information contained in a memo intended to counter a Republican document alleging surveillance abuses.

FBI director Christopher Wray fended off accusations of political bias at the bureau Tuesday, amid controversy over a GOP memo that suggests misconduct by officials at the FBI and Department of Justice.

The Trump administration’s top spy chief quietly criticized the White House in written testimony Tuesday, warning lawmakers that U.S. allies are questioning America’s ability to keep its international commitments amid looming threats from China and Russia.

GOP lawmakers are raising concerns about surveillance abuses in a controversial memo, weeks after shepherding through the renewal of a surveillance authority. The apparent contradiction has civil liberties advocates asking, what gives?

Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin reassured lawmakers Tuesday that the department is preparing sanctions against corrupt Kremlin-linked people who are listed in a classified version of a report mandated by Congress.

The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to publicly release a Democratic memo intended to counter a now-public Republican document that alleges surveillance abuses against a former Trump campaign adviser.

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote Monday on publicly releasing a memo that Democrats say rebuts a Republican document alleging surveillance abuses that was released Friday.

Update: Devin Nunes clarifies his comments as reported below. He tells TWS that his investigation will produce more reports, but he will release the information in a traditional manner.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is renewing his call for a second special counsel in the wake of the release of a GOP-drafted memo that alleges politically-motivated surveillance abuses.

The House Intelligence Committee on Friday publicly released a GOP-drafted memo that alleges surveillance abuses against the Trump team, amid objections from the FBI, Department of Justice officials, and committee Democrats.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling on the panel’s Republican chairman to halt the process of releasing a memo alleging that the Trump campaign was a victim of surveillance abuses, shortly before the document’s expected public release.

House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy announced Wednesday that he will not be seeking re-election and will instead be returning to work in the justice system.

Lawmakers and experts are hoping for the best after the Treasury Department released what was seen as an underwhelming, congressionally-required public report on Russian oligarchs and senior political figures late Monday night.

During his first state of the union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump repeatedly called for bipartisanship, painted hopeful images, and told inspiring stories about guests in the crowd. But a year’s worth of partisan battles cut through the president’s optimistic rhetoric.

Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the Trump administration's decision Monday to hold off on new sanctions that target Russia’s intelligence and defense sectors.

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday voted along party lines to publicly release a secret GOP-drafted memo on alleged surveillance abuses targeting the Trump campaign, according to the panel’s top Democrat.

The House Intelligence Committee is set to meet Monday evening amid a heated a party-line battle over a secret, GOP-drafted memo that Republicans want released publicly. A committee aide told THE WEEKLY STANDARD ahead of the meeting that a vote on releasing the memo publicly is “possible.”

The Trump administration is expected to provide lawmakers with a report Monday that calls out Russian president Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, a document that has had Russian elites worried for months.

The Trump administration hit 30 Russian and Ukrainian entities with sanctions Friday in an effort to pressure the Kremlin over its role in the continued violence on Ukraine’s eastern border as well as its occupation of Crimea.

As House Republicans and Democrats battle over the release of a secret memo alleging surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign, Senate Republicans are not giving in to the prevailing heated rhetoric.

The House Intelligence Committee is now home to dueling memos over alleged surveillance abuses related to the 2016 election. Democrats on the committee have crafted their own secret document in response to a Republican-drafted memo that outlines alleged FBI misconduct against the Trump team, as…

CIA director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the agency had, until a year ago, not been paying enough attention to North Korea, even as the Hermit Kingdom worked to advance its weapons capability.

Top House Republicans met Saturday amid mounting calls for the release of a memo about alleged surveillance abuses by federal officials, a document that Democrats describe as a partisan stunt meant to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller.

Senators agreed Thursday to reauthorize a controversial surveillance authority a day before its expiration, clearing a final hurdle on the turbulent path to the president’s desk.

Senate leadership won just enough votes Tuesday night to advance the renewal of a controversial surveillance authority due to expire by the end of the week, the latest bump in the authority’s turbulent road to passage. Lawmakers will likely cast a final vote on the bill this week, paving the way to…

'My neighbors probably think I’m nuts,” says Cory Gardner. The fresh-faced senator is from tiny Yuma in northeastern Colorado, a 3,500-person town with “horrible cell service” to the point where he doesn’t get reception inside his house. So when the secretary of state calls, Gardner does what the…

Texas senator Ted Cruz on Thursday suggested that President Donald Trump buck members of the foreign policy establishment who are “desperately” trying to save the 2015 nuclear deal and not waive sanctions lifted under the agreement ahead of a series of related deadlines.

A House intelligence committee-led (HPSCI) effort to reauthorize Section VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702, is headed for a showdown on the House floor against privacy advocates Thursday afternoon, and the vote could be closer than Republican leaders…

Legislation that attempts to make good on President Donald Trump’s October demand to fix the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is still facing obstacles, days before Trump is due to decide whether to issue sanctions waivers that would keep the agreement alive—or kill it.

“My neighbors probably think I’m nuts,” says Cory Gardner. The fresh-faced senator is from tiny Yuma in northeastern Colorado, a 3,500-person town with “horrible cell service” to the point where he doesn’t get reception inside his house. So when the secretary of state calls, Gardner does what the…

The fight over a key surveillance authority is pitting House committees against each other and fueling intraparty tension, as lawmakers dive into the debate over the power’s renewal this week.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to vote Thursday on whether to renew a controversial surveillance power that Trump officials say is vital for protecting against terrorism and other national security threats.

The world has not seen the last of the anti-regime protests that have swept Iran in recent weeks, the Trump administration’s intelligence chief said Sunday.

Republican senators on Wednesday night brushed off President Donald Trump’s tweet threatening North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with the size and power of his “nuclear button,” the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two leaders.

Back in December, lawmakers put off the long-term reauthorization of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a powerful surveillance authority, amid a pre-Christmas legislative whirlwind. Now the House and Senate have until January 19 to agree on a reauthorization bill that…

Congressional Republicans are calling for answers on the Obama administration's reported efforts to derail an initiative that tracked Hezbollah’s international web of criminal activities, efforts that former officials said were fueled in large part out of a desire to secure the 2015 nuclear deal…

The Trump administration has given the green-light for the commercial sale of some lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, a move that lawmakers and experts hailed as a sharp reversal from Obama-era policies. But some also hope the decision is an intermediary to a bigger step: sending defensive…

The Trump administration is sanctioning five high-profile individuals under the Magnitsky Act, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday, a move that a top Kremlin critic says is likely to rile Russia.

Ukraine is living through its bloodiest year in the conflict on its eastern border since it began in 2014, the Trump administration’s envoy for the crisis said Tuesday.

The Obama administration hobbled a covert initiative that tracked Hezbollah’s web of criminal activities, allowing millions of dollars to fall into the hands of the Iran-backed militia, according to a Politico report. Efforts to stymie the initiative, former officials told Politico, were fueled in…

Nikki Haley on Thursday presented what she described as undeniable evidence that Iran is supplying arms to militants in Yemen and charged that Tehran is fueling conflict in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria—activities that she said fly in the face of United Nations resolutions.

Republican lawmakers and officials are feeling a moment of relief after the defeat of embattled GOP candidate Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election Tuesday.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee said Thursday that the committee will never support Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, describing the move as a “recognition of reality.”

A bill that would pressure the Palestinian Authority to stop financially rewarding acts of terror against Israelis and Americans easily passed the House of Representatives Tuesday.

Democratic lawmakers are at odds about whether the president should declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a recognition he is expected to make Wednesday.

Former national security adviser Mike Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to knowingly making false statements to the FBI, making him the senior most Trump administration official to be charged in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe.

"The defendant is guilty as sin,” said federal prosecutor Julieanne Himelstein. “And,” she added, “he is a stone-cold terrorist.”

Abu Khatallah, the first person publicly charged in connection with the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, was acquitted of federal murder charges Tuesday after a grueling seven-week trial.

The trial of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the first person to be publicly charged in connection with the 2012 Benghazi attacks, is becoming mired in discord, as the government and defense appear at odds over explosive intelligence that could put a dent in the government’s portrayal of Khatallah as the…

A top foreign correspondent at the New York Times said Friday that the Obama administration deliberately downplayed al Qaeda’s strength in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election.

Democratic senators grilled a federal judicial nominee, known as Texas’s witty “Tweeter Laureate,” on Wednesday over his past tweets about bacon and Alex Rodriguez. Seriously.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday rejected accusations that he had lied in previous congressional testimony about his knowledge of contacts between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, insisting to House lawmakers that his answers on the matter “have not changed.”

Lawmakers are still waiting on the Trump administration to advise the Supreme Court on a case that, if taken up, would potentially allow American victims of Palestinian terrorism to collect a reversed multimillion dollar judgment, sources on and off Capitol Hill told TWS.

GOP senators are further distancing themselves from Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore as allegations that he made sexual and romantic advances on teenage girls escalate.

Congressional negotiators approved a series of measures to counter Russian activities and influence in this year’s annual defense bill, including an authorization for providing Ukraine with lethal defensive aid and an initiative to bolster counter-propaganda efforts.

A witness called before the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on campus anti-Semitism is drawing fire from pro-Israel groups for defending comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany and downplaying the targeting of Jewish students.

The resignation of Lebanon’s prime minister over the weekend is heightening congressional scrutiny of Hezbollah's wide-ranging influence in the country, with a top lawmaker calling on the Trump administration to reassess military assistance.

During a rare appearance before Congress Wednesday, a high-ranking North Korean defector told lawmakers that the U.S. should focus on shaping the flow of information into North Korea and urging China not to repatriate defectors.

Arizona senator Jeff Flake issued a sharp rebuke of a Republican Senate candidate’s controversial past remarks and warned about his nomination Tuesday, while many of his GOP colleagues skirted the subject.

Top Trump administration officials urged lawmakers on Monday not to unduly constrain the executive branch under a potential new authorization for the use of military force (AUMF).

The United Nations is earmarking millions of dollars for Palestinian efforts to pursue international legal action against Israel over the next four years, triggering outrage on and off Capitol Hill and fueling calls to re-examine U.S. funding of the U.N.

The United States has captured a second militant in connection with the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead, the White House said Monday.

The Trump administration is facing mounting bipartisan calls to redesignate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline.

GOP lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to make good on President Barack Obama’s promise that, because of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, inspectors “will have access where necessary, when necessary.”

In mid-October, President Trump was due to make a certification to Congress on four conditions about its nuclear deal. He has repeatedly said this deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), gave the Iranians too much for too little. On October 13, he surprised no one by…

Two top lawmakers remain frustrated over the Trump administration’s failure to start implementing a set of congressionally mandated Russia sanctions on time, and are considering other avenues to pressure officials to act.

The House Intelligence and Oversight Committees are investigating Russia’s involvement in a controversial Obama-era uranium deal, the panel’s chairman announced Tuesday.

Lawmakers will vote this week on strengthening sanctions against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah and punishing Iran for its ballistic missile development, amid pressure from the Trump administration to come to a legislative solution related to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

A top Trump White House official ripped Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist enabler” on Thursday and warned businesses against engaging with the freshly designated organization.

In mid-October, President Trump was due to make a certification to Congress on four conditions about its nuclear deal. He has repeatedly said this deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), gave the Iranians too much for too little. On October 13, he surprised no one by…

CIA director Mike Pompeo described the connection between Iran and al-Qaeda as an “open secret” Thursday, a relationship that he and others criticized the Obama White House for downplaying.

A Republican lawmaker is urging the president to block a multibillion-dollar deal between Boeing and Iran Air, “the terror-supporting transport-arm” of a network that is now facing steep sanctions from the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal Friday, a move that has been described as one piece of a larger strategy to toughen U.S. policy toward Iran.

This piece has been updated with new information.

Lawyers want Boeing to reveal the secret details of its multibillion dollar deal with Iran Air to an Illinois federal court, a disclosure that hinges on the approval of the Trump administration.

Two top lawmakers slammed the Trump administration Wednesday for failing to “get their act together” and meet an October deadline to start implementing Russia sanctions.

A key Democrat said Tuesday that he would support supplemental agreements to the Iran nuclear deal, but urged the administration in the interim to certify Iranian implementation of the deal ahead of an upcoming deadline.

"I want them to hate him," a federal prosecutor said quietly on the evening of October 2 as his colleagues packed up. It had been a long first day in the trial of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man charged with instigating the tragic 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

"I want them to hate him," a federal prosecutor said quietly on the evening of October 2 as his colleagues packed up. It had been a long first day in the trial of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man charged with instigating the tragic 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Lawmakers are proposing reforms to a key foreign surveillance program used to monitor terrorists and disrupt their plots ahead of its December expiration.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russian election interference has expanded since January, with hundreds of additional information requests, new leads, and questions about fresh Russia-related events, the leaders of the panel said Wednesday.

Abu Khatallah is facing 18 counts related to the 2012 attack in Benghazi, including murder and providing material support to terrorists. His long-awaited trial began Monday in Washington, D.C.

GOP lawmakers are waiting on the White House to act on recommendations from top officials to send lethal defensive aid to Ukraine.

Hawkish Republican senators are advising President Donald Trump to decertify the Iran nuclear deal in October, a move that critics of the agreement see as a key step in changing U.S. policy toward Iran.

Unmasking. Leaks. Wiretaps. The mounting surveillance scandals of 2017 are suddenly threatening one of the most effective intelligence-gathering programs in U.S. history.

Iran has ramped up its illicit activities in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. military's top general told lawmakers Tuesday, and the Islamic Republic has been boosted in such pursuits by the funds it received under the 2015 nuclear deal.

Tennessee senator Bob Corker announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection next year, putting to rest weeks of speculation about the influential Republican's potential retirement from the Senate.

European officials are signaling openness to cracking down on Iran’s support for terrorism and improving on the 2015 nuclear deal, which one diplomatic official attributed on Monday to the Trump administration’s tough talk.

Unmasking. Leaks. Wiretaps. The mounting surveillance scandals of 2017 are suddenly threatening one of the most effective intelligence-gathering programs in U.S. history.

Lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee are hinting at still-secret details related to Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal that the president could use to back up a potential October decertification.

A terror attack in a crowded London tube train left at least 18 hospitalized Friday morning, according to multiple reports.

Mark Green, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is a firm believer in fostering democracy abroad.

CIA director Mike Pompeo cancelled a scheduled appearance at Harvard Thursday after the university hired Chelsea Manning, a former Army private and leaker who Pompeo described as an “American traitor.”

On Wednesday Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doubled down on a threat from the president to stop trade with any country that does business with North Korea.

A key Senate panel showed its disdain for the Trump administration’s proposed steep cuts to the foreign aid budget—first by agreeing to spend more than what the president had asked for and then by issuing a report condemning the president’s “"apparent doctrine of retreat"

President Obama’s former ambassador to Syria said Monday that Bashar al-Assad, cemented by support from Iran, has essentially won the Syrian civil war and will maintain his grip on power.

North Korea fired a missile that passed over Japan, the Pentagon confirmed Monday evening.

The Trump administration is considering sending lethal defensive aid to Ukraine, defense secretary Jim Mattis said during a visit there Thursday.

President Donald Trump ditched the TelePrompTer during a wide-ranging campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday night, and set Twitter ablaze with hot takes.

Republican lawmakers praised President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would maintain U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and base further action on conditions on the ground rather than a predetermined timeline.

Tennessee senator Bob Corker issued a sharp critique of Donald Trump Thursday, adding to a chorus of Republican criticism around the president’s handling of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

President Donald Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has drawn repeated criticism from Republican lawmakers. On Thursday, the president fired back.

On Tuesday, Republican lawmakers called for moral clarity and sharply criticized remarks made by the president after he again assigned blame to "both sides" for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

The Trump administration warned U.S. citizens Tuesday about the risks of traveling to Iran, including the potential for arrest and detention.

The Mooch now knows he wears women’s sunglasses. And he’s damn proud.

Updated, 10:45 p.m.: Violence around a planned white nationalist rally in Virginia left three people dead and over a dozen injured Saturday, multiple news outlets reported.

President Donald Trump is open to preemptive military action against North Korea if negotiating with Pyongyang does not work, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham told conservative host Hugh Hewitt Thursday. “If negotiations fail, he is willing to abandon strategic patience and use preemption. I…

Democratic lawmakers are criticizing President Trump for unleashing heated rhetoric against Pyongyang this week, including his threat of “fire and fury” against the North Korean regime. That warning was "reckless and shows a serious lack of judgment," said House minority whip Steny Hoyer.

The State Department would not respond to a warning from Iran's president that it would be an act of political self-destruction for President Donald Trump to dismantle the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Sunday that the Justice Department is not out to target and prosecute journalists, after mounting concern over how a newly announced crackdown on leaks could affect reporters.

The president is expected to sign a sanctions bill targeting Russia, Iran, and North Korea “very soon,” according to the chairman of the Senate’s foreign relations panel.

Top lawmakers on the Senate's foreign relations committee are brushing off a retaliatory measure taken by Russia in response to a sanctions package that passed Congress overwhelmingly last week, describing the heated move as predictable.

A congressional sanctions package that targets Russia is triggering icy resentment from the Kremlin, with top officials there warning of further retaliation and worsening relations between Moscow and Washington.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia, Iran, and North Korea Thursday, 98-2.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on a sunny Tuesday, communications director Anthony Scaramucci threatened an executive branch purge.

Lawmakers reached an agreement Wednesday for the Senate to vote on a sweeping sanctions bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the House this week, in a push to promptly get the legislation to the president’s desk.

Jared Kushner’s three-hour interview with the House Intelligence Committee has led to some verbal sparring between members of Congress.

The Senate is weighing removing North Korea sanctions from a sweeping bill that overwhelmingly passed the House on Tuesday, the chairman of the Senate’s foreign relations panel said, in an effort to get the package passed before August recess.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a sweeping sanctions bill targeting Russia, Iran, and North Korea on Tuesday, 419-3.

The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe emerged satisfied from a three-hour meeting with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, but left open the possibility of further questioning.

The House is expected to vote on a sanctions bill targeting Russia, Iran, and North Korea Tuesday, but the chairman of the Senate's foreign relations panel says lawmakers need to work out a few more kinks—which might prevent the bill’s passage before August recess.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday blasted the Trump administration's reported decision to cut a CIA program that trained and armed Syrian rebels fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Texas senator Ted Cruz dubbed the Trump administration’s certification that Iran is fully implementing the 2015 nuclear deal a “serious mistake” Wednesday.

Congress is ratcheting up pressure on the Trump administration to keep a watchful eye on Tehran, after the House approved an amendment last week requiring the president to inform lawmakers regularly of any efforts by Iran to ferry weapons and fighters using its commercial planes. The provision,…

The steady drip of Russia-related controversies surrounding the Trump administration are becoming a “nuisance” and “distraction,” a Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Monday.

A bill slashing funds that benefit the Palestinian Authority will easily pass the Senate’s foreign relations panel, likely before August recess, the leaders of the committee told THE WEEKLY STANDARD. The measure conditions the flow of U.S. dollars on whether the PA has stopped monetarily rewarding…

Donald Trump hates the Iran nuclear deal. Brokered by the Obama administration and officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement has the stated purpose of preventing Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. But the president believes the deal gave Iran…

House Democrats have not decided yet whether to file their own version of an Iran-Russia sanctions bill, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee told THE WEEKLY STANDARD Wednesday afternoon.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham drilled Trump’s nominee for FBI director Wednesday on whether the president’s son should have contacted the FBI after Russian sources offered him dirt on Hillary Clinton.

On Wednesday, Christopher Wray, the president’s nominee to head the FBI, swore to maintain the independence and nonpartisanship of the Bureau, with the Trump’s May firing of then-director James Comey fresh in lawmakers’ minds.

Expressing concern about “the amnesia of people that are in the Trump orbit,” something he described as a “medical issue,” Rep. Trey Gowdy on Tuesday issued some of the harshest criticism yet by any GOP lawmaker of the Trump administration’s handling of the Russia controversies.

The House Intelligence Committee will investigate a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer, and plans to call those connected to the meeting to come before the panel, the committee's top Democrat said Tuesday.

What began as a bill slapping sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile development and human rights violations is being mired in minutiae over a single added word—“Russia.”

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton issued a stern warning to the president Monday about negotiating with Russian president Vladimir Putin, after Putin and Trump held their first official in-person meeting Friday. Bolton, who was under consideration to be Trump’s secretary of state, also criticized…

A top Russia hawk in Congress slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday for letting Russian election interference slide after a lengthy meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin Friday.

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The White House says it is in agreement with the State Department on how to handle the Saudi-led decision to freeze diplomatic ties with Qatar, despite mixed messaging from President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the issue.

The Trump administration is not ruling out providing Ukraine with defensive weapons in its fight against Russian-backed separatists, a State Department official told THE WEEKLY STANDARD, though the administration is focused on a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

The heads of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe are threatening to use their subpoena power if the White House does not respond “appropriately and fully” as to whether it has documentation of conversations between the president and fired FBI director James Comey.

Intelligence agencies are supplying the House Intelligence Committee with information about unmasking requests made by three former Obama administration officials, a spokesman for the committee chairman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

A former Obama State Department official suggested Friday that the administration would have “done more” about Russian election interference if it had been clearer earlier that one of the Kremlin's central objectives was to denigrate Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he does not have tapes of his conversations with fired FBI director James Comey Thursday. But the top Democrats overseeing Russia probes in the House and the Senate said the president's statement still left questions unanswered.

With multiple–and potentially overlapping–investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election under way, a top Republican is trying to ensure that the House Intelligence Committee probe doesn’t interfere with the work of special counsel Robert Mueller.

A Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday compared the behavior of Kremlin-linked hackers seeking to disrupt the 2016 election to that of burglars casing a neighborhood, with a few “rattled” doorknobs and a few successful entries.

The heads of the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian election interference met with special counsel Robert Mueller Tuesday, the latest in a string of closed-door conversations between Mueller and lawmakers since last week.

Iranian officials are slamming a freshly approved crop of congressional sanctions as a breach of the 2015 nuclear deal and have vowed to take reciprocal measures. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are underscoring the need for penalties on Tehran and dismissing the recent rhetoric as par for…

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the president is working to discredit and "take down" special counsel Bob Mueller, just as Mueller's probe is beginning.

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that he is the subject of an investigation by special counselor Robert Mueller in a tweet was inflammatory even by Trump standards.

The Senate almost unanimously approved legislation Thursday that slaps sanctions on Iran and Russia.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham suggested Friday that a planned hearing next week with former FBI director James Comey could descend into a political "hit job" if the director focuses only on reported conversations between him and the president.

The House Intelligence committee issued subpoenas targeting two Trump associates on Wednesday as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian election interference. The panel also reportedly subpoenaed three government agencies for information that could shed light on potential surveillance…

National Security Agency analysts under the Obama administration improperly searched Americans' information, but the searches were conducted largely out of error, according to a review of publicly available intelligence documents reported on by Circa last week.

Vice President Mike Pence assured graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy Friday that the president will "always have your back." He pointed to the administration's recently delivered defense budget proposal, which he described as "one of the largest increases in defense spending since the days of…

Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee easily passed a bipartisan bill that slaps sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile tests and other non-nuclear behavior Thursday, amid attempts by former Obama administration officials to stymie the legislation over concerns that it could hurt the…

The Trump administration is taking significant steps to target a full range of Iranian military aggression and human rights abuses, functionally reversing the Obama administration's near-total prioritization of the 2015 nuclear deal, according to discussions conducted by THE WEEKLY STANDARD with…

Former CIA director John Brennan said Tuesday that he did not know whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, but told lawmakers that he had seen intelligence that triggered questions about the possibility of such coordination.

The Justice Department appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the FBI probe of Russian interference in the election, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday. That probe includes any potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The controversy over a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian officials, which grew Tuesday to engulf Israel, will not harm intelligence sharing between Washington and Jerusalem and is unlikely to negatively affect the president's upcoming visit to the country, according to a top former…

The pressure to respond to a constant stream of Trump administration controversies appears to be taking its toll on congressional Republicans. Strain began to show on Capitol Hill Tuesday even before the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump asked James Comey in February to end the…

Arizona senator John McCain says the mounting controversies surrounding the Trump administration are reaching the level of Watergate.

A Republican congressman is calling on the White House to share with some lawmakers the entire transcript of a controversial meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian officials, during which Trump reportedly revealed highly classified information.

Democratic lawmakers, and a few Republicans, were deeply troubled by a report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.

Top officials from the Obama administration are working to stymie congressional pressure on Iran, including through a quiet push in Congress by an organization that has been criticized for helping mislead the public about the Iran deal, according to correspondence obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Iran continues to boost the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and act as the leading state sponsor of terrorism even as the nuclear deal temporarily limits the country's ability to build a nuclear weapon, according to a top intelligence chief.

Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe was on Capitol Hill Thursday nominally to discuss worldwide threats, but that did not stop him from facing questions about reaction within the bureau to the dismissal of James Comey. McCabe said that the vast majority of FBI employees did not lose confidence in…

Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that the bureau is continuing its work despite the sudden firing of James Comey, and that there have been no attempts yet to hinder the agency's efforts.

The Senate Intelligence committee investigation into Russian election interference may face a few procedural bumps but will ultimately be brought to fruition despite the Trump administration's firing of FBI director James Comey, Republican committee members said Wednesday.

In the wake of President Trump's surprise firing of FBI director James Comey, Democrats are redoubling their calls for an independent investigation into Russian election interference, including any potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russi.

Former director of national intelligence James Clapper said Monday that he was not aware of an FBI investigation involving potential coordination between Russia and the Trump team before March, but reaffirmed nonetheless that he had not seen evidence of such coordination.

FBI director James Comey stood by his October decision to inform lawmakers that his agency had discovered new emails linked to the Hillary Clinton investigation, an event that Clinton and her allies continue to charge swayed the election at the last minute. Comey testified Wednesday before the…

Two prominent Republican senators are exploring a variety of options to push through a Russia sanctions bill as soon as possible, after Senator Bob Corker said Monday that the sanctions are on hold for now.

Top Republican senators advised the president on Monday to be cautious about meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, after he said in an interview that he would be "honored" to meet with Kim "under the right circumstances."

Lawmakers will likely consider an Iran sanctions bill in coming weeks but will not do the same for a Russia sanctions bill, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters Monday.

A hotel in Qatar with links to the United States has decided against hosting a Hamas press conference Monday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned. The cancellation came after reports that the company could face penalties for providing material support for terrorism if it held the event.

This post has been updated for clarity and to reflect that the location of the event was changed from City Centre Doha to Intercontinental Doha. After publication, the event was moved once again, as we reported here.

President Donald Trump is likely to announce the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during a coming trip to Israel, a Republican lawmaker close to the issue said Thursday.

Details of the United States' 2016 prisoner swap with Iran continue to surface more than a year later, forming a picture much different from the one the Obama administration presented at the time. The latest revelations are the most shocking yet. Under the deal, the United States granted clemency…

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn likely accepted money from foreign governments without permission or proper disclosure and appears to have broken the law in so doing, top members on the House Oversight Committee said Tuesday.

The Obama administration's controversial January 2016 prisoner swap stymied its own counterproliferation efforts against Iran that took years to carefully construct and orchestrate, Politico reports. The move fits into a broader slowdown within the administration, before and during negotiations for…

The Trump administration is facing pressure to definitively rule out a longstanding request by Iran to import 950 tons of natural uranium, according to government sources and proliferation experts who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Tehran has signaled it will petition again for the yellowcake next…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson slammed the Iran nuclear deal for its limited scope and eventual sunset date Wednesday, and said the Trump administration is conducting an exhaustive review of its Iran policy.

Top Iranian officials are boasting that the nuclear deal enabled the country to make progress in developing advanced centrifuges, and broad production of some advanced models has already begun in the year since the deal was implemented, per Iranian media.

The fallout from allegations by Devin Nunes of potential surveillance abuses by the Obama White House has a top former intelligence official warning that such claims threaten to undermine the intelligence community's credibility.

Relations between the United States and Russia have hit a low point and should be improved, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during a trip to Moscow Wednesday. Tillerson spoke after meeting with Vladimir Putin, a meeting that occurred only after much uncertainty as to whether the Russian…

Congress should as soon as possible consider a bill that slaps sanctions on Iran over its illicit non-nuclear activities, Democratic lawmakers who supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The Republican chairmen of foreign relations panels in the House and Senate on Thursday advised the Trump administration to work with Congress on its Syria strategy going forward, after the administration launched a military strike on a Syrian airfield.

The Trump administration hit a Syrian airbase with over 50 cruise missiles Thursday, according to multiple reports. The strike came days after the Bashar al-Assad regime waged a horrific chemical attack against its own people Tuesday that left at least 80 dead.

The Trump administration is giving serious thought to providing Ukraine with lethal defensive aid, Arizona senator John McCain told THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a move that is likely to rile the Kremlin if realized.

Florida senator Marco Rubio told THE WEEKLY STANDARD Thursday that he was heartened by President Donald Trump's changing tone on Syria.

Republican lawmakers are waiting for the Trump administration to shift its stance on the removal of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in the wake of a deadly chemical attack there on Tuesday that killed dozens of civilians.

Former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Tuesday denied abusing intelligence for political reasons during her time in the White House, after a report revealed that she requested the identities of Trump transition team members in intelligence documents on numerous occasions.

The House Intelligence committee's top Democrat said Sunday that it is too early to say whether there was collusion between the Trump team and Russia, in an apparent moderation of his past claims on the subject.

Republican Russia hawks, including Florida senator Marco Rubio, suffered from the Kremlin's early attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election, an expert told lawmakers Thursday.

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee vowed to thoroughly assess the intelligence community's conclusions on Russian election interference Wednesday, steering clear of the controversies plaguing their House intel counterparts.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said that the FBI is still not fully cooperating with the committee's request for information pertaining to its Russia investigation, which includes the leaks that precipitated the resignation of former national security adviser General Mike Flynn.

Top Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee spurned a request from the panel's Democratic ranking member Monday night to have chairman Devin Nunes recuse himself from an investigation into Russia and intelligence gathering related to the Trump transition.

The State Department censured Russian authorities for detaining peaceful protesters Sunday as anti-corruption demonstrations swept the country, according to a statement provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee accused the panel's Republican chairman Devin Nunes of "cancelling" an open hearing on Russian election interference on Friday. The rebuke came after Nunes said he was postponing the hearing until after the committee hears closed testimony from…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman told reporters Friday.

The Senate confirmed President Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel Thursday in a near party line vote.

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has "no idea" about findings his House counterpart presented Wednesday that Trump transition officials' communications were incidentally collected before the inauguration and potentially improperly disseminated.

Most of the Trump transition members whose communications were allegedly collected via pre-inaugural incidental surveillance had their identities redacted in intelligence reports, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. The chairman of the committee informed him of that…

Trump transition officials were caught in incidental surveillance before the inauguration, the chairman of the House Intelligence committee told reporters Wednesday. These individuals had their communications circulated within the intelligence community and their identities revealed internally,…

Russia waged a conspicuous campaign to undermine the American political process and will continue attempting to do so in coming years, top intelligence and law enforcement officials told lawmakers Monday.

As mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump's first national security adviser, an already-contentious government program that monitors terrorists and helps disrupt their plots is in trouble.

As mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, an already-contentious government program that monitors terrorists and helps disrupt their plots is in trouble.

The House Intelligence Committee will subpoena information from law enforcement and intelligence agencies if necessary to investigate potential surveillance violations tied to former Trump national security adviser General Mike Flynn, the committee's chairman said Wednesday.

Top Democratic lawmakers are praising a controversial diplomat who served as a key Middle East figure in the Obama administration, after reports that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis asked her to fill a top policy slot at the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump's pick for Israel envoy passed the Senate committee stage with full Republican support Thursday, despite lingering doubts from some Democrats on the panel.

Dozens of professors at Middlebury College in Vermont are defending free, civil discourse after protests against a conservative author slated to speak there last week spiraled out of control.

The violent mob protest that greeted Charles Murray's appearance at Middlebury College on March 2 grew out of several days of agitation.

President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel is likely to gain the support of a Democratic senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has confirmed.

A top Democratic senator who previously met with the Russian ambassador is on the defensive after asserting Thursday that she had never done so.

A special prosecutor must be appointed if incriminating evidence emerges about alleged contacts between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, a top Republican senator said Wednesday.

Secret intelligence captured during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and withheld from the public by the Obama administration must be released, the House intelligence chairman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

President Donald Trump touched on some encouraging foreign policy points in his joint address to Congress Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers told THE WEEKLY STANDARD. But the speech's optimistic tone was soured by preexisting concerns about Trump's ties to Russia and the administration's potential…

Congressional leaders are moving to cut off all taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority if it continues monetarily rewarding terrorists for attacks on Israelis and Americans, top Republican lawmakers said Tuesday.

A House investigation that includes the Trump campaign's alleged contacts with Russian intelligence officials is ongoing, but preliminary inquiries on the matter have not returned incriminating evidence, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Monday.

The leaks that led to the resignation of former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn were politically motivated, a top Republican senator said Thursday, joining a House Republican who has suggested the same.

The Obama administration structured the Iran nuclear deal to cover up Iranian violations, which may make it impossible to rigorously enforce the landmark agreement as Trump administration officials have suggested, according to a top Republican senator.

Democrats are warming to Arizona senator John McCain, according to a Pew poll released Wednesday, joining Republicans in sharing a favorable view of President Donald Trump's leading GOP critic.

Days before the election, President Donald Trump's newly appointed national security adviser, lieutenant general H. R. McMaster, laid out his vision of the threats facing America and the country's deficiencies in facing them, as well as the value of education to remedy those deficiencies.

A bipartisan congressional delegation is expected to visit emerging democracies near Russia's borders this week in an effort to assure allies that the United States won't stand for Russian aggression, according to a release first obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

President Donald Trump's Israel envoy will get at least some Democratic backing in the committee set to vote on his nomination, according to a top lawmaker who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, though several Democrats say they are still troubled by many of his past remarks and positions.

President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to Israel took a sober tone Thursday, as David Friedman, labeled a firebrand in the run-up to his confirmation hearing, moderated his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and repeatedly expressed regret over inflammatory comments he made in the…

Lawmakers are cautious but open to the release of the transcripts of phone calls between former national security advisor Mike Flynn and the Russian ambassador, as long as they do not contain sensitive information.

The United States might waver on Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia but Europe will not, the European Union's foreign policy chief said Friday, so long as a standing agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine is not fully implemented.

The Trump administration's early responses to illicit Iranian activities signal to Tehran that the nuclear deal is on life support, a former top diplomat said Thursday.

Arizona senator John McCain strongly condemned any attempt to draw a moral equivalence between the United States and Vladimir Putin's Russia Tuesday, after President Donald Trump appeared to suggest such an equivalence over the weekend.

Sanctions the Trump administration imposed on Iran after the country conducted another ballistic missile launch are more symbolic than punitive, a former Obama administration Treasury Department official said Monday.

Top Republican lawmakers are praising the Trump administration for levying a crop of sanctions on Iran after the country conducted a ballistic missile test Sunday, hailing the move as the beginning of a tougher posture toward the Islamic Republic.

A top Republican senator is urging President Donald Trump to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive aid as the fight there against Russian-backed rebels has again intensified in recent days.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, an early skeptic of President Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that his concerns over whether the nominee would be cozy with the Kremlin and weak on sanctions against Russia have been allayed.

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson 56 to 43 Wednesday, with every Republican and three Democrats voting in support. The former Exxon Mobil CEO managed to quell doubts from top Republicans, but is sure to face scrutiny from still-skeptical…

Democratic Senate whip Dick Durbin has told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that he is formulating an amendment that will criticize the Trump administration for failing to mention Jews in a recent statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Durbin plans to add the language to a Senate measure aimed at…

Top Democratic lawmakers are calling for strong action in response to Iranian ballistic missile activity after Tehran conducted another test-fire over the weekend, its first since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, according to statements provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Top Republican lawmakers are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily bar entry into the United States for citizens from seven countries and refugees, amid confusion over the order's scope and implementation.

Republican senators are threatening to codify sanctions against the Kremlin amid speculation that President Donald Trump will ease the sanctions and refusal from the Trump team to commit to maintaining or increasing them.

The Senate's number-two Democrat is facing a flood of phone calls urging him to drop his objection to a bipartisan measure condemning an anti-Israel United Nations resolution, according to a leading pro-Israel group that spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The Trump administration is reviewing the release of millions of dollars for Palestinian projects made by the Obama administration in a last-minute transfer that flouted congressional objections, according to statements provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Congressional leaders are moving to respond to a last-minute transfer of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority by the Obama administration with a range of measures, including a possible total freeze of funds to the PA, according to senators and other sources who spoke to THE WEEKLY…

Republican leadership is rethinking its relationship with Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer after Schumer betrayed a promise to allow a vote last Friday on President Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, according to a top Republican lawmaker who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Florida senator Marco Rubio announced his support for President Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state ahead of a committee vote for the nominee Monday, setting aside reservations over the former oil executive's ties to the Kremlin and evasive answers on human rights violations.

Republican senators hedged their responses to President Donald Trump's inaugural address Friday, pairing praise of the speech with an acknowledgment that Trump could not touch on every topic in just 17 minutes.

Russia committed war crimes in Syria and violated the international order with its annexation of Crimea, the president-elect's pick for United Nations ambassador affirmed Wednesday.

The Trump administration will not stand for anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, the president-elect's pick for ambassador to the international body vowed Wednesday.

The Obama administration's United Nations ambassador used the final major speech of her tenure Tuesday to castigate the Kremlin for eight years' worth of destabilizing activities, warning against another reset with the country amid vows from President-elect Donald Trump to mend relations with…

Congress has limited options for responding to a United Nations Security Council resolution critical of Israel, according to a top Palestinian official who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Monica Crowley is withdrawing from her position on the Trump administration National Security Council, according to a statement posted Monday, after it was discovered that Crowley plagiarized sections of her book and doctoral dissertation.

The Obama administration left top lawmakers, including leaders on the congressional committees charged with overseeing American foreign policy, in the dark about a secret deal to send Iran more than one hundred metric tons of natural uranium, according to statements provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The United States will never successfully partner with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Arizona senator John McCain warned Thursday, in an apparent rejection of vows from the president-elect to improve relations with the country.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state Rex Tillerson denounced the Obama administration Wednesday for a range of moves against Israel and reiterated vows made by the president-elect to bolster relations with the Jewish state.

The incoming Trump administration should perform a comprehensive review of last summer's Iran nuclear deal and more effectively block Iran's ability to obtain a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state Rex Tillerson said Wednesday.

Florida senator Marco Rubio pointedly asked secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson for his views on the Kremlin's treatment of political foes and activity in Syria during a confirmation hearing Wednesday, making for a tense exchange between the Russia hawk and the former Exxon Mobil CEO whose…

An assembly of pro-Israel leaders will head to Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge support for measures that call to repeal a recent United Nations resolution and to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The Obama administration has one week to hand over all documents involving a United Nations resolution critical of Israel to a congressional committee, amid allegations from Israeli officials that the administration worked behind the scenes to pass the resolution.

Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a so-called Iranian moderate and pragmatist, died Sunday at 82.

A bipartisan Senate push to censure the United Nations over a recent anti-Israel resolution is being stalled by a top Republican working to insert language increasing pressure on the U.N., an effort that has left the pro-Israel community seething and will make the measure irrelevant, according to…

The Obama administration misled top lawmakers about the transfer of billions of dollars in assets to Iran, according to sources in and out of Congress who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, and a range of questions remain about the mechanics of the payments.

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to condemn a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli settlements as anti-Israel and one-sided, in a rebuke of the Obama administration's decision to allow the resolution to pass.

Top U.S. intelligence officials doubled down Wednesday on assessments that the Kremlin led a campaign to influence the 2016 election, with the country's intel chief blaming Russia for more than just data "hacking."

Russian vilification of President Obama is reaching renewed heights after the president on Thursday ordered a sweeping package of sanctions and the expulsion of 35 Russian officials from the United States, amid mounting allegations of Kremlin-led efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.

Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Israeli government of undermining prospects for a two-state solution Wednesday and defended the Obama administration's decision to allow the passage of a United Nations resolution critical of Israel, underscoring that Israeli settlements "only invited U.N.…

Secretary of State John Kerry will lay out his vision for the Middle East peace process Wednesday, according to a State Department spokesman, less than a week after the Obama administration allowed the passage of a United Nations resolution critical of Israel.

Iran was given secret exemptions allowing the country to exceed restrictions set out by the landmark nuclear deal inked last year, some of which were made public this week by the United Nations nuclear watchdog and others that are likely still being withheld, according to diplomatic sources and a…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought out President-elect Donald Trump to help derail a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli settlements after it had been learned that the Obama administration would not veto it, an Israeli official told the Associated Press.

American military assistance to Lebanon should be reevaluated in the coming year, top congressional sources and experts tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD, following reports that equipment provided to the Lebanese army had been transferred to the Hezbollah terrorist organization and used to boost the Assad…

The Obama administration is facing renewed criticism that it is avoiding confronting Iran over a widening list of the Islamic Republic's sanctions violations and military activities, after State Department officials would not commit to taking punitive action against a top Iranian military official…

Iranian officials are threatening to take action in the event that a controversial jet deal between Boeing and Iran Air collapses. Their heated rhetoric comes amid congressional opposition to the sale and mounting speculation that the deal will become unworkable under the Trump administration,…

The Russian ambassador to Turkey has been reported dead after a shooting Monday in the country's capital of Ankara, according to Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

An Israeli advocacy group is seeking to collect billions in terror-related damages from Iran and in the meantime put a hold on the delivery of dozens of Boeing airliners to Tehran, the Associated Press reports.

A 10-year extension of long-standing Iran sanctions will become law without President Obama's signature, in an apparent symbolic move after both chambers of Congress passed the package by a near-unanimous margin.

The Obama administration is facing mounting criticism that it is deliberately downplaying Iran's role in ongoing atrocities in Syria in order to avoid endangering the nuclear deal, a characterization the administration has rejected but that experts and journalists continue to wage.

A veteran intelligence official slammed the Obama administration for ignoring a range of Iran's destructive activities in order to preserve the nuclear deal, and advised the incoming Trump administration to harshly retaliate against Tehran's illicit pursuits.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich repeatedly ripped the media for what he said was ongoing unfair coverage of President-elect Donald Trump, calling certain news outlets "propaganda" and some members of the media "idiots."

The Obama administration is downplaying Iran's role in atrocities committed by the Syrian regime in order to avoid endangering last summer's landmark nuclear deal, a top lawmaker and experts tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is joining bipartisan calls for a congressional investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. election, following an announcement that President Obama has ordered a similar such review.

Top Republicans are pushing back on the potential appointment of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state due to the executive's ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin, throwing a potential Senate confirmation into doubt.

President Obama has ordered a review of allegations that Russia conducted a series of cyberattacks to influence the presidential election results, according to a top White House official. A spokesman later added that the investigation would include "malicious cyber activity" tied to races for the…

Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is set to go on trial in England Monday after being charged with possession of child pornography.

Lawmakers will crack down on business with Iran under the Trump administration, warning interested companies that they could wind up funding illicit Iranian activities and slapping sanctions on entities linked to Iran's military, according to a leading House Republican.

Top Democratic lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration's decision to keep a range of unclassified documents related to the Iran nuclear deal away from the public eye, amid mounting calls from Trump insiders and Republican lawmakers urging the incoming Trump administration to release the…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ripped last summer's landmark nuclear deal with Iran and said he would work with president-elect Donald Trump to remedy its shortcomings.

Senate Democrats and Republicans voted overwhelmingly to renew sanctions on Iran for 10 years Thursday, despite attempts by the Obama administration to stymie Congress.

The Obama administration has determined that enabling the sale of aircraft and other materials to an Iranian airline sanctioned for ferrying weapons on behalf of Iran's military does not undermine its foreign policy goals, according to communications with Congress obtained exclusively by THE WEEKLY…

Senate Democrats are ripping Iran over threats issued by top Iranian officials to retaliate if Congress extends sanctions that the Obama administration has said are permitted under last summer's nuclear deal, according to conversations with lawmakers conducted by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The international agency responsible for monitoring last summer's nuclear deal with Iran is deliberately not reporting on Iranian activities that may indicate Iran is violating the deal, setting up a potential confrontation with the incoming Trump administration, according to nuclear and…

Iran will likely use the Obama administration's final weeks to try to procure nuclear-related materials in violation of last summer's landmark nuclear deal, a top lawmaker told the THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

A group of Democratic lawmakers met with an alleged member of a terrorist organization during a trip funded by an anti-Israel nonprofit last spring, according to government documents obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Top Republican senators tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD they don't know what a Donald Trump administration will mean for Ukraine, but they plan on urging his team to support the country in its fight against Russian aggression regardless.

Donald Trump's incoming chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, has described House speaker Paul Ryan as the "enemy" and has called for his removal from the speakership. But Ryan said at the Capitol Tuesday he is moving past that criticism and called on his fellow Republicans to "look…

Donald Trump's newly tapped senior advisor Steve Bannon has previously expressed open disdain for Republican House speaker Paul Ryan, dubbing him an "enemy" and calling for his removal from the position. But House Republicans brushed off the possibility that Bannon's attacks on Ryan would drive a…

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog may have delayed releasing a report which revealed that Iran has again violated last summer's landmark nuclear deal amid efforts by the Obama administration to protect the deal, a top nuclear expert told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The Obama administration will not penalize Iran for exceeding limits set forth in last summer's nuclear deal that pertain to the country's ability to stockpile nuclear-related material.

A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran is in violation of last summer's nuclear deal. According to the report, the regime in Tehran has again exceeded the deal's threshold for heavy water, marking the second such violation since the implementation of the agreement…

A number of U.S. universities are giving students ample room to grieve in the wake of Donald Trump's election victory Wednesday.

Senator Pat Toomey has been reelected in Pennsylvania after a tight race with Democrat Katie McGinty, likely securing the Republican majority in the Senate.

The Associated Press has called Indiana for Donald Trump, whose vice-presidential pick is governor of the state, as the first polls close on across America.

The organizers of an anti-Israel conference held over the weekend at George Mason University restricted press access only to "movement outlets" that support economic warfare against the Jewish State, according to statements provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by a media coordinator for the event.

Republicans in tight races are closing out the election with ads blasting their Democratic opponents for supporting last summer's nuclear deal with Iran, while Democrats are remaining largely silent about the broadly unpopular agreement, according to media analysis provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD…

Activists who advocate for the destruction of Israel will gather at George Mason University this weekend to strategize about expanding their presence on campuses across America.

Companies doing business with Iran risk U.S. sanctions unless they take heightened measures to avoid benefiting sanctioned entities like the Iranian military, according to a State Department statement provided to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. The warning contradicts remarks made by Secretary of State John…

Guidelines published last month by the Obama administration protect banks doing business with Iran from U.S. sanctions even if their transactions end up benefiting sanctioned entities, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. That stance, experts and congressional sources tell THE WEEKLY…

Democrats have all but gone to war with FBI director James Comey. Their anger at him comes after Comey sent a letter to Congress last week that announced he would be reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state. But President Barack Obama, who…

Students at George Mason University awoke Monday morning to a three-paragraph message warning them that they will not be coddled on campus.

The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state after the discovery of new, relevant emails.

Republican senator Marco Rubio is maintaining a six-point lead against Democratic congressman Patrick Murphy, according to a University of North Florida (UNF) poll released Thursday.

New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte shot back at Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren Wednesday, after Warren reiterated Donald Trump's charge that Ayotte was "weak" during a rally in New Hampshire Monday.

Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio has held on to a slight lead over Democratic congressman Patrick Murphy ahead of their final Senate debate in the Sunshine State Wednesday.

U.S. lawmakers are urging members of the United Nations' cultural body to oppose a resolution that will effectively sever Jewish and Christian ties to holy sites in Jerusalem, only a week after the body passed a similar, controversial measure.

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by double digits among likely voters, according to the latest ABC News poll released Sunday.

The United States will harshly retaliate against any bank or company caught doing business that involves sanctioned Iranian entities, despite a recent announcement from the Treasury Department that had been broadly interpreted as loosening American sanctions against previously prohibited…

The day after Donald Trump refused to say if he would accept the results of the election after making claims of "large-scale voter fraud" and a "rigged" system, more than 20 top Republican elected officials—including governors and secretaries of state—told THE WEEKLY STANDARD they have faith and…

Last week, Liberty University president and Moral Majority scion Jerry Falwell Jr. embraced campus opposition to his support for Donald Trump after the release of a lewd videotape and allegations of sexual assault against the candidate. But Falwell has since reportedly silenced one student seeking…

Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump "thinks belittling women makes him bigger" and that he "goes after their dignity [and] their self-worth." Clinton went hard after the Republican nominee at the third presidential debate Wednesday, in reaction to the news that a number of women have accused Trump of…

The Obama administration won't provide Congress with a range of details about a recent announcement that cleared the way for doing business with Iran, including Iranian firms controlled by sanctioned military and terrorist groups, according to congressional sources and experts who spoke to THE…

Members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle agreed to leverage support for Israel with donors but to remain silent on the subject around Democratic activists, according to hacked emails published by WikiLeaks.

A Christian pro-Israel group flooded the United Nation's cultural arm with thousands of condemnatory emails Monday, after the body passed a draft resolution last week denying Jewish and Christian ties to holy sites in Jerusalem.

A top senator is condemning the United Nations’ cultural organ for approving a draft resolution Thursday that effectively denies Jewish and Christian connections to holy sites in Jerusalem, after more than two-dozen countries, including U.S. allies, abstained from voting on the measure.

The Obama administration has cemented secret exemptions to last summer's nuclear deal that allow Iran to keep a still-unknown amount of uranium above what the deal's caps allow. That's according to top nuclear experts and sources who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD after lawmakers called for greater…

The latest episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol features Elliott Abrams, former assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush White House.

Trump surrogate and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that no one would be defending Donald Trump's remarks about women, after a tape from 2005 released Friday caught the businessman lewdly bragging about sexual acts.

The Obama administration is manufacturing a crisis with Israel in anticipation of a post-election diplomatic push targeting the Jewish state, and this past week launched a series of broadsides criticizing the Israelis through the media and in press briefings, according to congressional sources and…

A former top Treasury Department official told THE WEEKLY STANDARD Thursday that major international firms still do not want to do business with Iran, despite efforts by the Obama administration to persuade foreign banks and businesses to reengage there.

The Clinton campaign said Hillary Clinton agrees with vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine's controversial statement Tuesday that the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement eliminated Iran's nuclear program.

During the vice-presidential debate Tuesday, Virginia senator Tim Kaine likened Hillary Clinton's stance on immigration to Ronald Reagan's 1986 immigration plan, a controversial set of reforms that, rather than cracking down on undocumented workers and heightening border security, was followed by a…

The Obama administration gutted an international ballistic missile embargo on Iran as one of several concessions made when the Islamic Republic released four American prisoners in January, Iran experts tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD. This has triggered criticism that the administration misled Congress…

Virginia senator Tim Kaine avoided addressing Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state Tuesday during the vice-presidential debate, after being asked whether the scandals surrounding Clinton are fueling lack of trust among voters.

Trump surrogates Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani offered a similar defense of their candidate Sunday, calling him a "genius" and emphasizing that his not paying taxes was lawful, in the wake of a New York Times report that said the businessman could have avoided paying income taxes for years.

Secretary of State John Kerry denied that the United States maintained a foreign policy of disengagement under the Obama administration, calling that perception "a marketing problem" on Thursday.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States is edging toward dropping months of diplomatic efforts with Russia to end the Syrian civil war, after a U.S.-Russian ceasefire collapsed earlier this month and gave way to a Russia and Iran-backed offensive in the Syrian city of…

Top senators fired back at the Obama administration on Tuesday after the State Department shifted blame to Congress for the collapse of a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in Syria. The back-and-forth in Washington comes as the State Department refuses to rule out further talks with Moscow despite a…

The Obama administration wired almost one million dollars to an Iranian bank account in Europe last July, months before making a separate $1.7 billion payment to Iran that officials say had to be made in cash. The administration also withheld some details of the wire payment from Congress and…

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew played down controversy over a $1.7 billion cash payment the Obama administration made to Iran earlier this year, calling the method of payment a "technicality" after it was revealed this month that the entire sum was paid in cash, despite precedent for wire transfers…

Legislation that prohibits future cash payments to Iran passed the House on Thursday. The White House has pledged to veto the legislation, however, saying it would "undermine U.S. obligations and ultimately benefit Iran at the expense of the United States."

A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday criticized a $1.7-billion payment the Obama administration made to Iran earlier this year, suggesting that the administration ignored a law that prohibits such payments to Iran until claims against the country from American victims of terror had been "dealt with…

The Obama administration did not inform key lawmakers that it had wired millions of dollars to Iran through the formal financial system, even as President Obama and other administration officials publicly defended using cash for a controversial $1.7 billion payment to Iran by saying that wiring…

Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said Monday that the Obama administration had been "completely transparent" about a purchase of nuclear-related material from Iran in April, after the government confirmed this weekend that the purchase had been made by wire.

Hillary Clinton called for the rigorous screening of immigrants Monday to ensure that dangerous actors do not make their way into America.

Over at The Tower, San Diego State University student Anthony Berteaux describes the experience of two Jewish undergraduates who attended the University of California's Students of Color Conference—a self-branded "safe space"—only to be met with overpowering anti-Semitism.

The Obama administration used a bank to pay for a multi-million dollar purchase of nuclear-related material from Iran, undermining the government's claim that an unrelated $1.7 billion payment to the Islamic Republic had to be made in cash, according to a top lawmaker and congressional sources who…

Lawmakers intend to grant Israel aid on top of a multi-billion dollar package struck between the nation and the Obama administration, ignoring an agreement Israel made with the United States to refuse any additional funds from Congress for two years.

A cancelled event advocating for economic boycotts of Israel has been rescheduled down the street from its original location in one of the House of Representatives office buildings, according to an invitation obtained Thursday by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The Democratic House lawmaker who had anonymously sponsored a controversial House event advocating for economic boycotts of Israel withdrew her sponsorship Tuesday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has confirmed, and the briefing has also been cancelled.

Florida senator Marco Rubio would not say Tuesday whether he still believes Donald Trump should not be trusted with the country's nuclear weapons codes.

Democrats in Congress are distancing themselves from a Capitol Hill briefing that will advocate for economic boycotts against Israel, as the event garners public attention but the lawmaker or lawmakers sponsoring it have not identified themselves.

Former New York mayor and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani overlooked the existence of international humanitarian law Sunday, saying that "anything's legal" between actors during wartime.

This week, the Washington Post fact-checked Donald Trump's charge that Hillary Clinton does not have "a presidential look."

During an appearance on Russia Today, a television network funded by the Russian government, Donald Trump said Thursday that it was "pretty unlikely" that the Kremlin is interfering in the 2016 election, though U.S. intelligence officials have claimed otherwise.

The Obama administration may have facilitated several cash payments to Iran even before its controversial $1.7 billion transfer to the country, potentially putting even more liquid money in the hands of nefarious actors backed by the Islamic Republic, according to testimony presented Thursday at a…

The Obama administration failed to inform a number of Democratic lawmakers that a $1.7 billion payment the U.S. sent to Iran earlier this year would be made wholly in cash, according to senators who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD Wednesday.

The United States paid Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year, most of which was taxpayer money, around the same time that the Islamic Republic released several American prisoners, as first reported by the Associated Press.

Hillary Clinton palled around with reporters aboard her campaign's new "Stronger Together" plane this weekend, before eventually taking some questions from the traveling press corps.

Hillary Clinton is maintaining a six-point lead against Donald Trump, according to the latest NBC/Survey Monkey poll, which found Clinton with the same margin lead last week.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Sunday that FBI documents on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, released Friday, show why the former secretary of state was not indicted.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine responded Sunday to the revelation that Hillary Clinton did not know that documents labeled 'C' were classified information by saying that it is hard to tell at times whether information is classified.

Former Washington senator Slade Gorton endorsed independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin Friday, describing the former CIA agent as a fresh face that will unify America.

Before Israel-based documentarian Shimon Dotan ever screened his film, The Settlers, at Syracuse University, he received an email telling him that it was a bad idea.

British Airways resumed flights to Iran on Thursday, but the airline did not say it will give customers special warning about the risk of travel, despite government notices that describe the potential for capture and imprisonment there.

A top Russian diplomat criticized the U.S. for maintaining sanctions on Iran that he said hurt the country's economy in the wake of the nuclear deal, echoing complaints the Islamic Republic has made in recent months.

The Obama administration is still weighing whether to apply "mandatory sanctions" called for in multiple laws on the sale of the S-300 air-defense missile system from Russia to Iran.

In an op-ed at the Atlantic Council, former ambassador Frederic C. Hof condemns President Barack Obama's "passivity" during the bloody conflict in Syria, both on the battlefield and before the public eye, for the sake of preserving the Iran nuclear deal.

A top aide to President Obama forgave Iran's deployment of an advanced missile defense system around one of its nuclear facilities on Monday.

Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence brushed off criticism that Trump's exhortation to "VOTE TRUMP!" in the wake of the murder Dwyane Wade's cousin, Nykea Aldridge, was offensive.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie did not acknowledge a "softening" in Donald Trump's stance on immigration Sunday.

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A Canadian who went abroad for terrorist training maintained contact with terrorists in Iran while planning an attack at home, according to a recently released report from the Canadian government.

As the safe space-trigger warning-microagression movement possesses universities across the country, a number of educators remain hopeful that students still long for a challenging education at an institution that allows them to freely exchange ideas.

The State Department refused to say whether it sent Iran $1.3 billion in January, claiming that they were obligated to withhold information about the financial transaction due to confidentiality.

The State Department reissued a travel warning Monday that emphasized the risks facing U.S. citizens in Iran.

Information buried in an internal State Department review has compounded allegations that the Department intentionally deleted an exchange about secret talks between the United States and Iran from a press briefing video, Fox News reports.

Former CIA and NSA honcho Michael Hayden said Sunday that he will not be voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The Obama administration is refusing to provide documents to lawmakers seeking details about a controversial $400 million cash payment the U.S. made to Iran in January, according to exchanges viewed exclusively by THE WEEKLY STANDARD and congressional sources.

Donald Trump's first television ad of the general election, released Friday, hits Hillary Clinton for her stance on border security and immigration.

The State Department admitted Thursday that a controversial $400 million payment the United States made to Iran in January was used as "leverage" in the release of American hostages.

George Soros's philanthropy network sought to obscure its close coordination with a liberal Jewish advocacy group connected to the Obama administration and to campaigns designed to increase pressure on Israel and bolster the U.S.-Iranian relationship, newly leaked documents show.

The U.S. delayed delivering a controversial $400 million payment to Iran until American hostages held there were "wheels up," the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

With bureaucrats like this, Vladimir Putin doesn't need friends.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD editor Bill Kristol lamented the fall of Breitbart News Wednesday in the wake of Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon's appointment as chief executive for the Trump campaign.

A professor who penned an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing for the Obama administration's $400 million payment to Iran did not disclose his ties to a group that paid experts to advocate for the Iran nuclear deal in the public sphere, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday.

Clinton ally and Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane was forced to resign from her post Tuesday after a jury found her guilty of nine criminal offenses.

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger said Monday that Donald Trump should look into his campaign's reported ties to the Kremlin and pro-Putin figures in Ukraine.

Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer in the Middle East and South Asia, presented himself to frustrated Americans Sunday as a fresh-faced unifier with foreign policy experience.

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump in the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Colorado, according to four NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released Friday.

Leaders of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) manipulated intelligence to make efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq look more successful than they were in reality, according to a new report by a House Republican joint task force created to investigate the matter.

Lawmakers are burying the Obama administration with requests for information about a $400 million payment to Iran last January, despite administration attempts to stonewall the public on details of the payment.

Hillary Clinton has disavowed the support of Seddique Mateen, father of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen, a full day after he was spotted at a Clinton campaign event in Florida.

Democrats would not comment on the circumstances surrounding the appearance of Seddique Mateen, the father of mass shooter Omar Mateen, at a Hillary Clinton rally in Florida Monday.

A veteran American diplomat who was quietly paid by Boeing while pushing for the Iran nuclear deal—which paved the way for the aerospace giant to ink a $25 billion sale with Iran—is rejecting accusations that he hid a financial motive while pushing for the accord.

Hours after Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton's economic policies a "tired" part of the past in Detroit Monday, Clinton threw the businessman's attack line back his way.

As Ukraine fears a new Russian offensive "at any time," Republican lawmakers are remaining silent on the Trump campaign's reported role in scaling back calls for assisstance to the eastern European country in the Republican party platform.

Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Friday that the GOP ticket was heading in the right direction, calling an unquestionably tumultuous stretch of days "an improving week."

Hillary Clinton again said that the FBI believed her email narrative to be "truthful" Wednesday, despite receiving the highest untruthfulness rating for that claim from several fact-checkers last week.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that a report about the Obama administration sending Iran $400 million in cash was old news.

Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had seen footage of a controversial $400 million cash payment that the Obama administration made to Iran in January. What he actually saw was b-roll footage that has been used in American news broadcasts.

A chorus of Republican lawmakers condemned the Obama administration Wednesday for secretly sending Iran $400 million in what critics called a ransom payment.

Donald Trump rehashed his campaign's greatest hits during a rally in Florida Wednesday.

The State Department is still refusing to discuss the details of a covert payment worth $400 million to Iran that coincided with the release of four American hostages from Iran in January.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD's online editor Mike Warren said Wednesday that Donald Trump is refusing to endorse House speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona senator John McCain in order to provoke his fellow Republicans and manipulate the Republican party's power dynamic.

President Obama said Tuesday that Russia's suspected attempts to influence the U.S. election would not significantly affect the U.S.-Russian relationship.

Donald Trump held up a Purple Heart Tuesday at his rally in Virginia and said that while he "always wanted" the honor, obtaining a copy was "easier."

After Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian president Vladimir Putin wasn't "going to go into Ukraine", most media outlets seized on the fact that Putin illegally annexed Crimea, formerly a part of Ukraine, in 2014.

The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said that a Hillary Clinton presidency would not be good for U.S.-Russian relations, Russian media reported Sunday.

Donald Trump insulted a Gold Star family who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, denied a years-long incursion by Russia into Ukraine, and voiced support for the Russian annexation of Crimea in a single interview Sunday.

Hillary Clinton said Sunday that there was no contradiction between her claims that she did not send classified information from her private email server and the FBI's findings that she did.

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Anthony Weiner called Hillary Clinton "the most accomplished" U.S. presidential candidate since the nation's first president Tuesday.

The Kremlin snapped back Tuesday at allegations that Russia hacked the Democratic party's email database to sway the U.S. election—without denying the Russian government was behind the attack.

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Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton in one new poll and tied with her another. Both polls were taken after the Republican National Convention, giving Trump an overall lead of 0.2 percentage points over Clinton in the Real Clear Politics average of polls. This marks Trump's first RCP lead since…

The Kremlin sidestepped Donald Trump's statement that the United States should not immediately come to the defense of NATO allies under attack, according to reports by Russian news outlets, instead criticizing the premise of the question that prompted his response.

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The Obama administration has sanctioned three senior al-Qaeda members operating in Iran just weeks after dismissing reports of cooperation between the global terror organization and the Islamic Republic, deepening criticism from experts and lawmakers that the administration is seeking to downplay…

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Arkansas senator Tom Cotton defended Donald Trump's track record of receiving false and misleading ratings from fact checkers Monday.

Hillary Clinton is with it.

A preeminent Israeli missile expert criticized the Obama administration for weaknesses in the Iran nuclear deal signed last summer, telling THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the agreement allows Iran to explain away its attempts to procure missiles with nuclear capabilities.

Boeing executives are mischaracterizing Congressional efforts to block a controversial $25 billion aircraft sale to Iran, according to lawmakers who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD about statements by executives from the aerospace company.

The Obama administration did not brief top lawmakers about key details of an $8.6 million purchase of nuclear material from Iran for months after announcing the sale in April, according to interviews with multiple members of Congress.

Secretary of State John Kerry skipped out early on what many considered the most important NATO meeting in decades in order to see the final original performance of a Broadway musical Saturday night.

The State Department is disputing a report that Iran has sought to obtain nuclear technology since signing a deal aimed at curbing its nuclear program last summer.

Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are pushing for legislation that would prevent a multi-billion dollar deal between Boeing and Iran Air from being funded with taxpayer dollars. The Republican-led proposal is getting Democratic support.

Democratic lawmakers are joining their Republican counterparts in expressing concern that a pending multi-billion dollar deal between Boeing and Iran will endanger American security. The estimated $17.6 billion agreement for dozens of planes would be the largest American business transaction with…

Russia will send Iran another shipment of the S-300 air defense missile system as soon as Tehran is ready to pay, Russian media reported Monday.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation offered an assessment of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state Tuesday. Many of his conclusions contradicted Clinton's often-repeated assertions and criticized the former secretary of state…

Speaking to thousands of veterans Thursday, Republican congressman Peter Roskam of Illinois shamed Boeing for eagerly pursuing a multi-billion dollar deal with Iran that he said jeopardizes American security and forsakes American values.

A Republican delegate and national committee member is pushing to change the party rules in order to ensure Donald Trump's nomination at the upcoming convention. He claims not to be doing the bidding of Trump or the Republican National Committee. But his effort, if successful, would help both avoid…

The Senate Appropriations Committee passed a measure Wednesday combating the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, despite resistance from a group of Democrats. The committee passed the amendment, which is an outgrowth of the February Combating BDS Act of 2016, 21-to-9, as…

A senior International Monetary Fund official expressed optimism about Iran's ability to increase global confidence in its economy Wednesday, after months of international reluctance to invest and trade there despite sanctions relief from the Iran deal.

Republicans remain divided on the question of whether delegates should vote their conscience at the party's convention next month—a move that could block Donald Trump from the nomination for president. An effort by some delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to insert a…

As a group of Republican delegates continue their push for the freedom to vote their conscience when casting presidential nominating ballots at the Republican National Convention, John McCain said Tuesday that it's within their rights to vote how they see fit.

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee voted against an amendment that would have condemned Israeli "occupation and illegal settlements" and legitimized the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Friday.

In a speech to the European Parliament Thursday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas accused rabbis of "demanding" that the Israeli government poison Palestinian water.

The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union Thursday, spurring the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and a drop in markets, as well as praise—or resigned acceptance—from major American political figures.

A Democratic senator who voted for the Iran deal said Thursday that it is not America's responsibility to promote foreign investment in Iran, despite efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry to encourage investment there.

Hillary Clinton's speech in North Carolina on Wednesday was loaded with zingers.

A group of think tank scholars, congressmen, and intelligence officials is urging an intergovernmental financial watchdog to keep Iran on its so-called blacklist, despite Obama administration officials' vocal encouragement of trade and investment in the Islamic Republic.

Republican senators shrugged off the potential ramifications of Donald Trump's fundraising deficit Tuesday and laughed about the possibility of the businessman self-funding his campaign as promised.

Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski heartily defended his ex-boss in a half-hour interview on CNN Monday, after news broke that he had been fired from the campaign.

The Obama administration's Department of Justice changed course Monday and released the unredacted transcript of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen's 911 call.

Obama administration officials admitted that two uranium particles discovered at Iran's Parchin military facility last year are likely evidence of the country's nuclear weapons past, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The findings contradict Iran's repeated claims that it was not secretly…

A government spokesman called the wealth of signatories on a memo objecting to President Obama's Syria policy "unusual" Friday.

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, an Iraq war veteran, has condemned Donald Trump's suggestion that American soldiers stole funds intended for Iraqi reconstruction, calling the presumptive Republican nominee's comments a dishonor.

During his first trip to the United States since taking office, Ukraine's new prime minister Volodomyr Groysman appeared—as his rabbi described him—as "a man of action who doesn't talk too much but gets a lot done." Groysman, 38, was elected in April after months of government infighting and…

A Democratic senator has blocked a measure that combats the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement due to its use of the term "Israeli-controlled territories." But the senator voted for a bill—now a law—that contained similar language months ago.

Three GOP senators sounded off Wednesday on Donald Trump's comment that American soldiers stole money intended for Iraqi reconstruction.

A Democratic senator continues to block an amendment to a defense spending authorization bill Tuesday meant to protect state and local governments that reject anti-Israel boycotts.

Protesters chanted "H is for hypocrisy" during a Hillary Clinton rally in Cleveland Monday. The protesters' calls were overpowered by a chorus of "We love Hillary," which Clinton let run for half a minute before she calmed the chaos.

Cornel West and James Zogby lobbied to include the term Israeli "occupation" in the official Democratic platform during a meeting of the party's platform drafting committee last week.

Hillary Clinton called to reauthorize an assault weapons ban Monday following Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders reaffirmed his progressive platform and vowed to stay in the Democratic presidential primary after meeting with President Obama at the White House Thursday. But the self-proclaimed socialist signaled he may be inching towards realizing the calls from many Democrats…

During a meeting of the Democratic party's platform drafting committee Wednesday, committee member and businesswoman Bonnie Schaefer said that no one should be able to own a gun.

The State Department said Wednesday that it would investigate a censored 2013 briefing video about secret talks with Iran, reversing its claim last week that the investigation had hit a "dead end."

The presence of a climate justice warrior who zip-tied himself to the White House fence and President Obama's "climate czar" on the Democrats' platform drafting committee has the party poised for a progressive shift on energy policy.

A Department of Defense official said Tuesday that Russia could overrun NATO within 60 hours, but maintained it would be more difficult to do so after 2017.

Hillary Clinton said Friday that the unemployment rate under President Obama, which dropped to its lowest point in May since 2007, was "disappointing."

Hillary and Bill Clinton will hold eight events in California Friday, days before the primary, in an attempt to thwart the threat of a Bernie Sanders victory there.

After weeks of hesitation, House speaker Paul Ryan announced Thursday that he would be voting for Donald Trump, citing the businessman's ability to put the "issues that unite Republicans" into law.

A government spokesman said Wednesday that the State Department purposefully removed part of a 2013 video about secret negotiations with Iran.

Hillary Clinton avoided saying Tuesday whether the FBI had reached out to interview her as part of an investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Former U.S. House representative Barney Frank responded Tuesday to Bernie Sanders's call to oust him from his role as co-chair of the Democratic party's rules committee, saying that the Vermont senator is sore about his loss to front-runner Hillary Clinton.

California governor Jerry Brown, who dubbed Bill Clinton "the prince of sleaze," endorsed Hillary Clinton Tuesday ahead of the California primary despite years of denouncing the Clintons' lack of moral integrity.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Sunday that a condemnatory watchdog report concerning Hillary Clinton's use of a private server would be on the minds of superdelegates and the American people in the run-up to the Democratic convention.

Hillary Clinton set up a private server as secretary of state in order to have intimate conversations with her family, California senator and Clinton supporter Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday.

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton joked Monday that "the last thing" America needs "is a bully in the pulpit" – a gag meant to dig into rival Donald Trump. She apparently hasn't used the line since.

Ambassador Wendy Sherman, lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement, on Thursday defended the Iran deal narrative presented by senior Obama adviser Ben Rhodes in his controversial New York Times Magazine profile.

Ambassador Wendy Sherman fervently defended the U.S. record for protecting human rights in Iran Thursday, though the Obama administration has not sanctioned any Iranian human rights abusers since signing the Iran nuclear agreement in July.

The FBI has yet to schedule an interview with Hillary Clinton as part of an ongoing investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Clinton said Thursday.

Donald Trump accused Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, a crusader against greed and “lousy mortgage(s)," of buying foreclosed homes in order to make "a quick killing" Wednesday—an assertion that has revived memories of Warren's house-flipping hobby.

Hillary Clinton has said for months that her use of a private email server was a permitted, well-known fact in the State Department.

The State Department has yet to release some of Hillary Clinton's emails, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton was in high spirits at a rally in California Wednesday, throwing up a Nixon-esque peace sign and laughing heartily, hours after an audit revealed that she broke federal rules with her use of a private email server.

A State Department watchdog denounced Hillary Clinton's lax use of a private email server Wednesday, writing that Clinton did not properly preserve correspondence and subjected herself to security risks without seeking counsel.

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans dislike or hate party frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday.

The Democratic National Committee has accepted Bernie Sanders-appointed pro-Palestinian activist James Zogby to its platform drafting committee in an attempt to ease interparty tensions.

Hillary Clinton argued for raising childcare workers' wages by comparing children to dogs Monday in Detroit.

Nebraskans are discussing a third-party run by their senator, Ben Sasse, after a Sunday Washington Post/ABC News poll revealed an unprecedented amount of dislike for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

A soon to be released NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a high number of voters are volunteering, "unprompted," that they would not vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, NBC's Chuck Todd said Friday.

After 57 years of fighting the KGB and totalitarians of every stripe, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was scheduled to go on trial in England this week for charges of "making and possessing" child pornography. Despite being gravely ill, Bukovsky, 73, has fought vigorously against the charges and…

Long-time Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal refused to answer questions about his one time salary through the Clinton Foundation or Clinton's email scandal Wednesday, telling the questioner to go talk to his mother.

Leading Polish politician Jarosław Kaczyński rebuked Bill Clinton Tuesday for suggesting that the Polish people were sluggishly giving in to authoritarianism.

Bill Clinton is campaigning almost 2,000 miles from Kentucky during its primary election Tuesday, following a rocky few days on the trail last week.

Hillary Clinton condemned a protester at a rally in Kentucky Monday, calling her factually misinformed.

Vice President Joe Biden declared his love for former speaker of the House John Boehner Monday during a commencement ceremony at the University of Notre Dame.

In a game of political dodgeball Friday, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz avoided saying whether Hillary Clinton was taking the FBI investigation into her private email server seriously.

Bill Clinton was again confronted about his controversial 1994 crime bill during a campaign stop for his wife in New Jersey Friday.

President Barack Obama extolled hip Nordic innovations such as Angry Birds, electronic music by Avicii, and Legos during a welcoming ceremony for leaders from the region Friday.

Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal dismissed the ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's role in the attack on the Benghazi consulate in Libya Thursday, calling it a thing of the past.

P.J. O'Rourke endorsed Hillary Clinton, "the second worst thing that could happen to America" Wednesday in The Daily Beast.

Clinton supporter Susan Shin Angulo almost uttered the phrase "Under God" during her introduction for Hillary Clinton in Blackwood, New Jersey Wednesday.

Tuesday's edition of The New York Times featured a piece on Hillary Clinton's odd obsession with U.F.O.s, or, as she calls them, "unidentified aerial phenomenon" (the "latest nomenclature," the former secretary of state told Jimmy Kimmel in March).

Marco Rubio implicitly criticized Donald Trump's foreign policy platform Tuesday but said that he would not vocally condemn the presumptive Republican nominee in the months before the election.

Hillary Clinton was stunned Monday when a small business owner told her that the cost of her health insurance had increased nearly two fold.

The State Department said Monday that it has been unable to track down any emails to or from Hillary Clinton's IT specialist, Bryan Pagliano, during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

The Democratic National Committee has selected bank board member and Clinton ally Barney Frank to co-chair the party's rules committee, a move that could aggravate Bernie Sanders' attempt to push his anti-big bank agenda at the Democratic Convention in July.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Friday that Hillary Clinton's attorney has been in contact with the Justice Department throughout the investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

The State Department objected Thursday to a Romanian hacker's claim that he breached Hillary Clinton's private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Several Latino groups are protesting Hillary Clinton's visit to Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Thursday.

Middlebury College in Vermont is requiring all first-year students to take a course covering topics like inclusivity, identity, privilege, and inequality.

A bashful Bill Clinton took the stage in California Wednesday while campaigning for his wife, telling an admiring audience member that it had been a long time since a female had complimented him on his appearance.

Hillary Clinton was met by dozens of enraged protesters and a middle finger or two during a campaign stop in Williamson, West Virginia, earlier this week.

The FBI has yet to interview Hillary Clinton about her use of a homebrew email server as secretary of state, Clinton said Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton raked in $2.4 million over the course of three days from selling “Women's Cards," the Clinton campaign said Monday. The haul is nearly a tenth of her fundraising total for April.

Senator Ted Cruz was met with a line of hostile Donald Trump supporters at a campaign event in Indiana Monday, a day before the state's primary.

In 540 BC, three Roman boys, Titus Tarquin, Arruns Tarquin, and their cousin Brutus – so dubbed because he was considered as dumb as a brute – were trekking to the Oracle at Delphi. Surely the oracle would predict that one of the Tarquin boys would be king; after all, they were the sons of Tarquin…