Republican Celeste Maloy has won a Utah special election to replace her former boss, U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, in a race that will put a woman back among Utah’s five-member congressional delegation for the first time since 2019. Maloy beat state Sen. Kathleen Riebe, who as minority whip is the Utah Senate’s second-ranking Democrat. Stewart resigned in September after…
Navy presence signals US bid to contain Israel-Gaza conflict | View caption Hide caption The goal, going beyond support for Israel, is to make sure hostilities don’t spread. To this end, defense officials have repeatedly reiterated the president’s warnings. “For any country, for any group – or anyone – thinking about trying to take advantage of this atrocity…
First Look Armenians decry use of Israeli arms in Karabakh invasion Weeks before invading Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan received weapons shipments from Israel. Azerbaijan went on to recapture the region, causing thousands to flee – and bringing Israel’s national interests in the Caucasus to light. | View caption Hide caption | Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s…
The hospitalization of a teenage girl in Iran after an incident on public transport has fueled a new wave of outrage and accusations against the country’s morality police one year after unrest swept the country. Armita Geravand, 16, suffered a “severe physical assault” at the hands of government agents Sunday for allegedly violating the country’s…
Dramatic aerial footage captures the moment a tank is blown to smithereens by artillery fire. The vehicle is seen hull-down in an unspecified location on the front line. Nestled in a trench, the tank’s cover is blown when it’s lit up by artillery fire. In an instant, the tank explodes, igniting a huge fireball that…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un peered into the cockpit of Russia’s most advanced fighter jet as he toured an aircraft factory Friday on an extended and rare foreign trip that has raised concerns about banned weapons transfer deals between increasingly isolated countries. Since entering Russia aboard his armored train on Tuesday, Kim has met…
Emma Igual, aged 32 and from Spain, and Canadia Anthony Ihnat were killed when the vehicle they were in came under fire near Bakhmut yesterday morning (Sunday, September 10). Four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and…
NEW DELHI — If showing up is one of life’s basic tenets, President Joe Biden may have one-upped his rivals the moment he stepped off Air Force One and set foot on Indian soil. The leaders of America’s two main geopolitical foes, China and Russia, stayed home as the world’s wealthiest countries met this week…
WASHINGTON — As Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., keeps hundreds of military promotions in limbo for a sixth straight month, his Republican colleagues are trying to deflect criticism by pointing the finger at a familiar GOP foe: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I think the majority leader should take the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…
The evident death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a fiery plane crash Wednesday, exactly two months after his Wagner mercenary army captured a Russian military garrison and marched on Moscow, did not come as a surprise to Russia experts or even casual observers of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “You may recall, when I was asked about this…