Recognizing Jerusalem is in America’s national interest

A worker hangs a road sign directing to the US embassy, in the area of the US consulate in Jerusalem, May 7, 2018. . When US President Donald Trump vowed during his election campaign to put 'America First,' many commentators mocked him for what was a very reasonable policy.

The End of the Iran Deal and Trump’s New, Confrontational Foreign Policy

Big on headlines, brash in demands, but short on long-term strategy, his course risks failing in Iran, North Korea, and beyond. On January 20, 1981, John Limbert and fifty-one other American diplomats were taken to Tehran's international airport on a bus, after being held in captivity by young revolutionaries for four hundred and forty-four days.

Clashing views on Iran reflect a new balance of power in the cabinet

Five days before President Donald Trump pulled out of what he called the "horrible" Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told diplomats from Britain, France and Germany that he believed the pact could still be saved. If Pompeo could win a few more days for negotiations, he told the Europeans in a conference call May 4, there was a chance - however small - the two sides could bridge a gap over the agreement's "sunset provisions," under which restrictions on Iran's nuclear program expire in anywhere from seven to 13 years.

The dismantling of Obama’s legacy proves our government still works

It's strange that a president who had such a transformative effect on our national discourse will leave such a negligible policy legacy. But Barack Obama, whose imperial term changed the way Americans interact and in some ways paved the way for the Trump presidency, is now watching his much-celebrated and mythologized two-term legacy be systematically demolished.

Trump’s instinct in Korean crisis and elsewhere is ‘go big’

The way President Donald Trump sees it, why go for a solid single when you can swing for a home run? Trump's upcoming summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un is only the latest example of the president's go-big strategy. From tax reform to international trade to foreign policy, Trump has pursued a high-risk, high-reward approach that advisers say can help produce results on long-standing problems - and that critics warn could trigger dangerous repercussions all the way from a trade war to global conflict.

Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit For Collecting Texts, Phone Call Data

Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following revelations it collects text messages and phone calls via its smartphone apps on Android devices. The social network giant's actions "presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring of minors and potential attacks on privileged communications" such as those between attorneys and clients or doctors and patients, the lawsuit alleges.

Netanyahu’s finest hour

At the start of his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Donald Trump discussed his announcement Tuesday afternoon that he is removing the US from the his predecessor Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and reinstating the nuclear sanctions that were suspended with the deal's implementation in January 2016. European and other international leaders responded angrily to Trump's move.

Growing chatter over Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize prospects

Now, President Donald Trump's supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a move that's being met by smirks and eye rolls in Europe, where Trump remains deeply unpopular. But that's not stopping a growing list of champions from pushing the Nobel committee to consider Trump for the world's most coveted diplomatic prize.

Trump Transition Team Urges POTUS To Hold Line On Fuel Efficiency Ruling

Three members of President Donald Trump's transition team urged the White House Thursday to stay the course on a ruling rolling back fuel efficiency standards crafted during Obama's administration. Analysts Shirley Ybarra, Myron Ebell, and Thomas Pyle are encouraging Trump to stay the course on reforms to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy .

Trump’s Iran move reminds some of run-up to Iraq war

Agencies, Washington , Fifteen years after invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda that both proved non-existent, the United States is again steering toward a possible confrontation with a Middle East power for suspected work on nuclear weapons and support for terrorism. U.S. President Donald Trump's Iran policy sounds hauntingly familiar to some current and former U.S. officials who witnessed the buildup to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, where sectarian and ethnic fractures and some 5,000 U.S. troops still remain.

China voices support for Iran nuclear deal after US walks away

Beijing says it will 'protect and execute the agreement', but reintroduction of US sanctions could hit Chinese firms, analysts suggest China said on Wednesday it remains committed to the Iran nuclear deal despite the United States' decision to withdraw from it, a move analysts said would bring Tehran and Beijing closer together but could harm China's economic interests. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China would "maintain communication with all parties and continue to protect and execute the agreement fully".