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“Assad is not the enemy of the United States,” said Gabbard. “because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States.”
POLITICS
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Says Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad Isn't Enemy Of U.S.
By Jenna Amatulli
The congresswoman and Democratic presidential contender was engaged in a tense discussion on "Morning Joe."
In this Feb. 1, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. The White House says Trump will call for optimism and unity in his State of the Union address, using the moment to attempt a reset after two years of bitter partisanship and deeply personal attacks. But skepticism will emanate from both sides of the aisle when Trump enters the House chamber Tuesday for the primetime address to lawmakers and the nation. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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POLITICS
Read Donald Trump's 2019 State Of The Union Speech
By Paige Lavender and Alana Horowitz Satlin
The president addressed immigration, foreign policy, abortion and other issues.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters asking about the threat of another government shutdown following their weekly strategy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. With the government funded for three weeks, it's up to a group of House and Senate negotiators to avoid another closure. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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POLITICS
2020 Democratic Hopefuls Quietly Endorse Trump's Middle East Withdrawals
By Igor Bobic
A big, bipartisan majority voiced opposition to a "precipitous" military drawdown in Syria and Afghanistan. Democratic presidential contenders sided with Trump.
Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand addresses the crowd after news of her reelection at the midterm election night party in New York City, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
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POLITICS
Where Democratic Presidential Contenders Stand On The Venezuelan Crisis
By Daniel Marans, Nick Robins-Early, and Travis Waldron
Some of them agree with President Trump’s decision to recognize the country's opposition leader as the legitimate president.
MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough, co-hosts of the show "Morning Joe," takes questions from an audience, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at a forum called Harvard Students Speak Up: A Town Hall on Politics and Public Service, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Co-host of the show Mika Brzezinski, not shown, also participated in the event. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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MEDIA
Joe Scarborough Sums Up Trump's 'Weakness Across The Globe' With 6 Little Words
By Lee Moran
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host pulled no punches with his dissection of the president's foreign policy pronouncements.
U.S. President Donald Trump, center right, and Gary Cohn, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, center left, smile during a press conference with cabinet members and Republican leadership at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, U.S., on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. Donald Trump said hes a 'very stable genius,' a day after a new book about the president's first year in the White House -- dismissed by Trump as 'fiction' -- claimed that many of his top aides and confidants consider him unfit to hold office. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Pool via Bloomberg
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MEDIA
Trade Trump To The U.K.? Ex-White House Economic Adviser Floated Joke 'Deal'
By Ed Mazza
Gary Cohn reportedly made the crack at Davos meeting.
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks during a rally with members of the Venezuela’s National Assembly regarding an amnesty law project for members of the military, in Caracas, Venezuela, January 26, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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WORLD NEWS
U.S. Calls On World To 'Pick A Side' On Venezuela; Europeans Set To Recognize Guaido
By Michelle Nichols and Mayela Armas, Reuters
European powers signaled they were set to follow Washington in recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan are greeted by Saudi's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh on Sunday, January 13, 2019, during his Middle East tour. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
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POLITICS
Pompeo Discusses Jamal Khashoggi Murder With Saudi King Salman, MBS
By Matthew Lee, AP
"Every single person who has responsibility for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi needs to held accountable,” Pompeo said to reporters.
UNITED STATES - MAY 17: Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Brian Mast, R-Fla., conduct a news conference in Rayburn Building on the Burn Pits Accountability Act, which evaluates the 'exposure of U.S. service members and veterans to open burn pits and toxic airborne chemicals,' on May 17, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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POLITICS
Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 Plan Threatens The New Left Foreign Policy Of Sanders And Warren
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
The Hawaii congresswoman claims to represent the rising left but has ties to authoritarianism and Islamophobia abroad.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Erdogan said Turkey's preparations for a new military offensive against terror groups in Syria are "to a large extent" complete. Erdogan made the comments just hours after U.S. national security adviser John Bolton met with Turkish officials seeking assurances that Turkey won't attack U.S-allied Kurdish militia in Syria. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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WORLD NEWS
Bolton Gets No Assurances From Turkey On Safety Of Kurdish Allies In Syria
By Zeke Miller, AP
John Bolton will leave Turkey without meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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POLITICS
John Bolton Says Certain Conditions Must Be Met Before U.S. Withdraws From Syria
By Zeke Miller, AP
President Donald Trump's national security adviser appeared to backpedal on the president's initial promise for an immediate pullout.
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MEDIA
Rachel Maddow Breaks Down Where Donald Trump Gets His Conspiracy Theories
By Lee Moran
The MSNBC host noted how Trump's foreign policy talking points sometimes sound very familiar.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Mike Pompeo, U.S. secretary of state, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Trump said he is ordering federal agencies to reunite immigrant families that were split by his administration's policy separating parents from children when they were caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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OPINION
Mike Pompeo Is The Spineless Personification Of Donald Trump's Nihilist Foreign Policy
By Richard North Patterson, Columnist
His sycophancy stands in stark contrast to Jim Mattis' principled resignation.
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the global coalition against IS, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. McGurk says the fight for Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital, will "only accelerate" as the militants lose their grip on Iraq's Mosul. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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POLITICS
U.S. Envoy To Anti-ISIS Coalition Brett McGurk Quits Over Trump's Syria Move
He accelerated his plan to leave by around two months after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his own departure.
U.S. Rep. Rohit 'Ro' Khanna, from California's 17th Congressional District centered in Santa Clara and other parts of California's Silicon Valley, is interviewed in Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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POLITICS
Democrats Against Military Interventions Cautiously Praise Trump On Afghanistan
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
But if the troop pullout proceeds amid Trump-style chaos, advocates for a less hawkish foreign policy could face a big setback.
This picture shows a US army vehicle supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hajin, in the Deir Ezzor province, eastern Syria, on December 15, 2018. - Kurdish-led forces seized the Islamic State's main hub of Hajin on December 14, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the jihadists from eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces secured Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the last pocket of territory controlled by IS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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WORLD NEWS
Kurdish-Led U.S. Ally In Syria Says Withdrawing Troops Will Aid Islamic State
The Syrian Democratic Forces said that a premature U.S. pullout would have a destabilizing effect on the entire region.
Certfa researchers Nariman Gharib, left, and Amin Sabeti look at a computer at a cafe in London on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. The Associated Press drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials. Also on the hackers’ hit list: high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
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WORLD NEWS
Iran-Linked Hackers Target Private Emails Of Nuclear Scientists, Sanctions Officials
By Raphael Satter, AP
The attempts to break in to emails of U.S. Treasury officials, Arab atomic scientists and D.C. think-tank employees illustrate Tehran's espionage priorities.
In this image made from video taken on March 2, 2017, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yangi, China. A second Canadian man is feared detained in China in what appears to be retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei. The possible arrest raises the stakes in an international dispute that threatens relations. Canada's Global Affairs department on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, said Spavor, an entrepreneur who is one of the only Westerners to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, had gone missing in China. Spavor's disappearance follows China's detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing earlier this week. (AP Photo)
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WORLD NEWS
Detention Of 2 Canadians Raises Stakes In China-U.S.-Canada Dispute
By Christopher Bodeen and Rob Gillies, AP
The two cases ratchet up pressure on Canada, which is holding Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: President Donald Trump shows off posters as he talks with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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OPINION
Congress Must Cancel Donald Trump's Corrupt Bargain With Saudi Arabia's MBS
By Richard North Patterson, Columnist
America's moral and strategic interests depend on cutting that tie.
***FILE PHOTO*** George H.W. Bush Has Passed Away Washington, DC., USA, October 4, 1991 President George H.W. Bush conducts a mini news conference in the press briefing room of the White House. Credit: Mark Reinstein/MediaPunch /IPX
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POLITICS
George H.W. Bush Was The Last President To Really Get Tough With Israel
By Daniel Marans
If other presidents had followed suit, it might have altered the course of Middle East history.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, on her foreign policy vision for the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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OPINION
The Progressive Foreign Policy Debate Is Finally Here
By Stephen Miles and Kate Kizer, Guest Writers
Two of the Democrats' 2020 front-runners have now offered compelling visions for America's role in the world.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a joint statement to members of the media Great Hall of the People, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in Beijing, China. Trump is on a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit
By Dominique Mosbergen
The U.S. has agreed to delay a planned Jan. 1 tariff increase to allow the two powers to iron out their trade differences.
President Donald Trump listens to questions from members of the media during his meeting with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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WORLD NEWS
G-20 Nations Agree On Trade, Migration; Trump Lone Holdout On Climate Change
By Angela Charlton, Luis Andres Henao and Peter Orsi, AP
Leaders of 19 countries agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the U.S. the lone holdout.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 30: (RUSSIA OUT) (L-R) French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese President Shizno Abe gather with other world leaders for the family photo on the opening day of G20 Summit on November 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Trump Vs The World: G-20 Summit Stumbles On Trade, Climate
By Angela Charlton, Peter Orsi and Luiz Andres Henao, AP
President Donald Trump used the summit in Argentina to make his own trade deals.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, on her foreign policy vision for the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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POLITICS
Elizabeth Warren Brings Her Anti-Corruption Message In Major Foreign Policy Speech
By Paul Blumenthal
It sure looks like she's running.
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Big Senate Majority Rebukes Trump Administration, Saudi Arabia Over Yemen War
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Igor Bobic
The win for the effort from Sens. Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy and Mike Lee is the first majority vote in Congress to end the 3-year-old U.S. policy in Yemen.
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