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Democrats’ tax-and-spend policies falter against red state alternatives

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: When “good” men do nothing, get new men

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles arrives for a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Spain says it has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war

By Jon Gambrell and David Rising - Associated Press

China and the United States of America's military illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How U.S. military dominance unravels China’s war machine

By Miles Yu

FILE - The U.S. Embassy stands in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

U.S. reopens embassy in Venezuela months after military operation to remove Maduro

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

FILE - A pregnant woman stands for a portrait in Dallas, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

More women are having babies later in life. How to improve your chance of a healthy pregnancy

By Laura Ungar - Associated Press

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles waits for the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana) **FILE**

Spain rescinds overflight rights to U.S. planes involved in Iran war

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE -A view of the island of Qeshm, which oversees the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, on Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran’s Kharg Island is key to its oil exports. Targeting it carries major risks

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

One of two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid organized by activists with an international organization that departed from Mexico arrives in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Trump greenlights Russian delivery of sanctioned oil to desperate Cuba

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

An American flag flies again at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, March 14, 2026, seven years after it was lowered when Washington and Caracas cut diplomatic relations in 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

U.S. opens embassy in Venezuela, restoring full diplomatic relations after seven years

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. and Philippine marines wait at the airport of the Philippines' northernmost town of Itbayat, Batanes province during a joint military exercise on Monday, May 6, 2024. American and Filipino marines held annual combat-readiness exercises called Balikatan, Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder, in a show of allied military readiness in the Philippines' northernmost town facing southern Taiwan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Japan to send combat troops to the Philippines for annual exercise — a first since World War II

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, April 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

‘At what cost?’: Sen. Andy Kim warns against U.S. ground troops in Iran

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

People take shelter in an underground metro station as air raid sirens warn of incoming Iranian missile strike, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hacked hospitals, hidden spyware: Iran conflict shows how digital fight is ingrained in warfare

By David Klepper - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan walk prior to their meeting to discuss the Middle East war, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Mediators gather in Pakistan for talks on ending the monthlong Iran war

By Munir Ahmed and Sam Metz and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Israeli security forces work at the site of an Iranian missile strike, in Beersheba, southern Israel Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Iran warns U.S. against ground invasion, threatens to set troops on fire

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A view of the damages at Hypercar, an auto service center, which according to the company's officials were caused by strikes on March 1, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran-backed Houthis claim first missile launch on Israel as war in the Mideast intensifies

By Samy Magdy, Aamer Madhani and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran, officials say

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

A first responder inspects the damaged structure of a residential building hit in an earlier U.S.-Israeli strike in Tehran, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel hits Tehran with wave of strikes and warns attacks on Iran ‘will escalate and expand’

By Jon Gambrell and David Rising - Associated Press

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaks during the Conference on Disarmament, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Iran tells U.N. Human Rights Council: U.S. deadly strike on elementary school was intentional

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times