Politics

Trump Claims Iranians Were Plotting to Blow Up American Embassy in Baghdad

WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted without evidence on Thursday that a top Iranian commander killed in an American airstrike was plotting to blow up the American Embassy in Baghdad. The president’s unsubstantiated account comes as Democrats have been demanding details about the intelligence the Trump administration received that led to the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim

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Pelosi, Under Pressure to Send Impeachment to Senate, Declines Again

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday once again rebuffed growing calls to send the House’s articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for trial and refused to provide a timetable for doing so, saying only that after weeks of delay, she would probably move “soon.” Ms. Pelosi reiterated a call for Senator

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Fact Checking Trump’s Statements About the Conflict With Iran

President Trump, responding during a White House address on Wednesday to the missile strikes by Iran, assailed the nuclear agreement reached by his predecessor and praised American military might. The 10-minute address contained numerous inaccuracies and claims that lacked evidence. Here’s a fact check. What Mr. Trump Said “Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish

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Iran Strikes Harsh Tone After U.S. Backs Off Further Conflict

A day after President Trump backed away from further military conflict with Iran, a commander of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps declared that Iran would soon take “harsher revenge” on the United States for a drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general. The slain commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, had led

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Iran Strikes Harsh Tone After U.S. Backs Off Further Conflict

“I call on the Iraqi factions to be deliberate, patient, and not to start military actions, and to shut down the extremist voices of some rogue elements until all political, parliamentary and international methods have been exhausted,” he was quoted as saying. Pope Francis referred to the conflict on Thursday during an annual address to

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Bernie Sanders’s Latest Endorsement: The Sunrise Movement

The Sunrise Movement, the collection of young climate activists who have roiled Capitol Hill and the Democratic presidential primary, will announce on Thursday that it is endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in another sign that left-wing advocacy groups have increasingly coalesced around his candidacy. In a landslide vote — more than 75 percent of

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