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The U.S. has more than 15 warships in place to help enforce President Trump’s blockade of Iran. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how those ships could play a role in stopping vessels that visit Iran’s ...

SIRTE, Libya—The twin-turboprop plane carved a line down through the sky and touched down at a desert airstrip here near Libya’s Mediterranean coast. Out stepped a visitor whose arrival would have ...

In a capital where politicians and policymakers often argue one side and then the other, Elbridge Colby has stood out over the past decade for his consistent and often single-minded position that the ...

As the U.S. conflict with Iran enters a fragile ceasefire period, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is taking steps to limit further military action — introducing a War Powers Resolution aimed at forcing ...

The Iran war has validated much of what U.S. analysts predicted, and it has exposed how little of that analysis shaped the decisions that led to the U.S. military campaign. Revisiting those ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health ...

April 15 (UPI) --The U.S. government authorized new financial operations with Venezuelan state-owned banks in a measure that partially eases sanctions in place since 2017 and seeks to reopen limited ...

US may use drones, robots for safer mine clearing Mine-clearing crews remain vulnerable to Iranian attacks Sensors, AI, and unmanned systems aim to automate mine clearance April 16 (Reuters) - As the ...

Job listings in the United States in 2021 grew plentiful while unemployment was low. To many policymakers and academics, the labor market looked hot. In a working paper published with the National ...

The biological productivity of the Southern Ocean in the summertime is substantially greater than many previous estimates have suggested, according to new airborne research by the U.S. National ...

Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships USS Devastator, USS Gladiator, USS Sentry and USS Dextrous maneuver in the Arabian Sea, July 2019. (Antonio Gemma Moré/U.S. Navy) As the United States embarks ...