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Commentary As the esteemed classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hansen recently wrote, the “U.S. military has turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.” “Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his ‘revulsion’ after Carlson questioned the role of women in combat. Keeping women mostly out of combat has been the U.S. military’s […]

NEW DELHI—Authorities ordered people indoors in some towns in western India as the number of new coronavirus infections hit 53,476 infections overnight, the highest in five months, data showed on Thursday. Cases have surged across several states in since late February, following a near-full reopening of the economy and flouting of safety measures such as

BRUSSELS—The European Commission on Thursday said it would expand financial and policy support to help achieve a goal for a quarter of Europe’s farmland to be organic by 2030. Organic farmland, which restricts chemical pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and genetically modified organisms, has expanded by more than 60 percent over the last decade in the European

The Senate will vote on expanded background checks for gun buyers and a bill that would dramatically change how elections are run, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday. During a speech on the Senate floor and in a letter to colleagues, the Democrat said the upper chamber will turn its attention to voting

The United States on Thursday imposed what it calls its most significant sanctions to date over the military coup in Myanmar, restricting American dealings with two giant Myanmar military holding companies that dominate much of that country’s economy. The sanctions are the latest that the Biden administration and European governments have laid on Myanmar since

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday overwhelmingly approved by a voice vote President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, paving the way for her to receive a confirmation vote on the Senate floor. At the same time, however, Republicans signaled they would not be willing to support Biden’s associate

The Orange County fair will return this summer, an official said March 25. “It’s been a tough year for everyone, but our team has spent the last year developing health and safety procedures in line with CDC guidelines so that when you come to the OC fair or any event at the OC Fair and

President Joe Biden held his first press conference on Thursday, after more than two months in office, answering questions on topics including whether he will run for reelection, the burgeoning crisis along the border, and abolishing the 60-vote filibuster. Biden responded to a question about how his administration will handle the surge in illegal immigration,

TAIPEI—Taiwan has begun mass production of a long-range missile and is developing three other models, a senior official said on Thursday, in a rare admission of efforts to develop strike capacity amid growing Chinese pressure. China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory, has stepped up military activity near the island, as it tries

The construction workers who traveled to central Kansas to erect a wind farm for utility giant American Electric Power thought it would be a good job. Then they fell victim to the troubling side of the renewable power industry. The nomadic band of workers had come to the Flat Ridge III project from Texas, Michigan