May 16, 2019 Federal agents arrest four protesters occupying Venezuelan Embassy in Maduro-Guaido standoff After a month-long standoff, four protesters who had been living inside the Venezuelan Embassy were arrested by federal law enforcement officers and forcibly removed from the building on Thursday.
May 15, 2019 Mike Pompeo said Iran-backed militias moved rockets near American bases in Iraq Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Iraqi officials that U.S. intelligence showed Iran-backed militias moved missiles near bases housing American forces, a revelation that came just hours after all non-emergency personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq was ordered to leave the country.
May 15, 2019 James Carafano: Trump's style lacks polish, but his statecraft is sound Trump’s critics are blindly obsessed with hating Trump. They have never allowed themselves to seriously consider that his statecraft works.
May 10, 2019 Petraeus praises Trump, calls out NATO, North Korea and China In a wide-ranging with Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ' Brian Kilmeade, former CIA Director David Petraeus praised President Trump's hard line on NATO, claimed the west needs to rethink its North Korea strategy and warned the United States should be "firm, not provocative" with China.Â
May 8, 2019 Pompeo rips support for Maduro by US, UK lawmakers as 'disgusting' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's support for disputed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday as "disgusting" and "not in either of our countries' best interests."
May 7, 2019 Pompeo meeting with Merkel cancelled over 'pressing issues' The U.S. State Department says a planned meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chancellor Angela Merkel has been canceled.
April 30, 2019 Maduro was 'ready' to leave Venezuela before Russia convinced him to stay, Pompeo tells Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ The U.S. has learned Venezuela's disputed president, Nicolas Maduro, was "ready" to leave the country amid protest violence and calls for his ouster -- until Russia convinced him to stay, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ on Tuesday night.
April 25, 2019 North Korea gave US $2M hospital bill over care of American Otto Warmbier, sources say The U.S. received a hospital bill in 2017 from the North Korean government for the care of American Otto Warmbier, who fell into a coma for unknown reasons while in police custody.
April 24, 2019 Former State Department worker, 63, pleads guilty in China spy case A former State Department employee admitted Wednesday to misleading investigators about accepting thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits from Chinese intelligence agents in exchange for information.
April 24, 2019 Iran, US in war of words over prisoners The State Department has said that Iran should release all "innocent U.S. persons" held in that country "immediately" after Iran's foreign minister claimed Wednesday to have offered a prisoner swap to the Trump administration six months ago.