Jan 05 AP Fact Check: Lest old distortions be forgot By Hope Yen, Josh Boak, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press President Donald Trump closed out the old year by reprising a selection of his most familiar falsehoods and putting a few of his predecessor’s accomplishments in his own win column. Continue reading
Jan 05 Protests across U.S. condemn action in Iran and Iraq By Associated Press Demonstrators in dozens of cities around the U.S. gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s killing of an Iranian general and decision to send thousands of additional soldiers to the Middle East. Continue reading
Jan 05 Pompeo: U.S. is now targeting Iran's 'actual decision-makers' By Robert Burns, Associated Press Pompeo was explaining U.S. strategy in the aftermath of the U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s most powerful general, Qassem Soleimani. Continue reading
Jan 05 Iran abandons nuclear deal limits after U.S. kills general By Nasser Karimi, Jon Gambrell, Zeina Karam, Associated Press Iran said Sunday it would no longer abide by any of the limits of its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Continue reading
Jan 05 Trump's threats draw Iran's cultural sites into tensions By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press President Trump tweeted Saturday evening that if Iran attacks any American assets to avenge the killing of a top Iranian general, the U.S. has 52 targets across the Islamic Republic that “WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD."… Continue reading
Jan 04 More U.S. troops deploy to Mideast amid tensions with Iran By Sarah Blake Morgan, Jonathan Drew, Associated Press Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general. Continue reading
Jan 04 Small cracks have appeared in GOP unity on impeachment trial By Matthew Daly, Associated Press For now, Republicans are holding the line behind Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s position that they should start the trial and hear arguments from House prosecutors and Trump’s defense team before deciding what to do. But small cracks in GOP… Continue reading
Jan 04 Trump stirs Mideast tensions despite talk of 'endless wars' By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President Donald Trump may have upended a central element of his foreign policy with a single drone strike. The Friday strike that killed the most prominent Iranian general may have ended any chance that he would get the United States… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch 4:23 How 2020 candidates are grappling with online disinformation By John Yang As the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, candidates are facing an unprecedented challenge: the growing scale and variety of disinformation online. John Yang reports on the difficulty of verifying that content is authentic and not manipulated -- especially when it… Continue watching
Jan 03 Watch 11:48 Shields and Brooks on Iran general's killing, 2020 Democrats' fundraising Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s political news, including the U.S. military’s killing of elite Iranian general Qassam Soleimani and its potential repercussions and how fundraising and polling… Continue watching