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WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress are moving to swiftly invoke the War Powers Resolution in an attempt to block President Trump from taking the United States into a war with Iran, even as Iran vows revenge for his killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani and Mr. Trump is threatening disproportionate strikes inside Iran if […]

WASHINGTON — Immediately after President Trump ordered the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran, some of the loudest applause was heard from Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and a decorated veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. “He’s a terrorist who has killed Americans. We knew where he was and the president

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had already been ramping down tensions with Iran, Ms. Geranmayeh said, “because they have no idea how Trump will behave from one week to the next” and fear getting caught in the middle. Similar confusion in Tehran, she added, could become “the biggest problem.” “If Trump is not

The field of Democrats vying to oust Representative Jeff Van Drew got more crowded on Monday as Amy Kennedy, the wife of former Representative Patrick Kennedy, entered the race, bringing the instant name recognition of a political dynasty to an already robust group running for the New Jersey congressional seat. Ms. Kennedy, who described herself

WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton, the former White House national security adviser, said on Monday that he was willing to testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial if he was subpoenaed. “I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify,” Mr. Bolton said in a statement on

Julián Castro, the former housing secretary whose progressive presidential candidacy did not make significant inroads with Democratic voters but earned plaudits from the party’s left wing, has endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, offering a possible lift for her candidacy less than one month before the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Castro announced his endorsement on Monday

WASHINGTON — The American ambassador to Afghanistan is leaving his post immediately, after two years in Kabul, the State Department announced on Monday. The departure of the ambassador, John R. Bass, comes as the United States is again trying to negotiate a tentative peace agreement with the Taliban that could withdraw American forces from Afghanistan

DECORAH, Iowa — Hours after an American drone strike killed Iran’s top military commander, Joseph R. Biden Jr. stood in a barnlike building in Independence, Iowa, thundering about the importance of electing an experienced president as America faces tumult abroad — and “maybe, God forbid,” war. About 70 miles away, Senator Bernie Sanders was just

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — When Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., took the stage to deliver his first in-person reaction to the American killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran, he began with a laundry list of unanswered questions about the airstrike. “As a military intelligence officer on the ground in

When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, he justified his unilateral action by saying the accord was flawed, in part because the major restrictions on Iran ended after 15 years, when Tehran would be free to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wanted. But now, instead