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President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to “take over” and “develop” the Gaza Strip have handed jihadist terrorist groups a rallying cry to recruit and inspire attacks against Americans at home and abroad, security experts and former intelligence officials say.Trump’s comments this week, proposing that the United States would control the Palestinian enclave while its residents would be forced to relocate abroad, have caused shock and outrage around the world — and terrorists will pounce on that anger to attract more support and organize attacks, experts said.“I think every CIA station chief in the Middle East woke up this morning with…

President Donald Trump said Palestinians wouldn’t be permitted to return to the Gaza Strip as part of his plan for the United States to take ownership of the war-torn territory.In a taped interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, a clip of which was released Monday, Trump was asked about his proposal to “own” and rebuild Gaza, first announced last week during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.”We’ll build beautiful communities for the 1.9 million people. We’ll build beautiful communities, safe communities — could be five, six, could be two, but we’ll build safe communities a little…

Until recently, Elon Musk seldom posted about the U.S. Agency for International Development on X, where he is wont to share his thoughts on nearly every subject. Then on Sunday came a flurry of posts wherein the world’s richest person, the Trump-appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, described USAID, the foreign humanitarian assistance agency, as “a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America,” “evil” and “a criminal organization.”“Time for it to die,” Musk posted.Elon Musk has moved quickly to make changes in the federal government through DOGE.Kenny Holston / Pool via Getty Images fileMusk’s sudden…

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., Jan. 31, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersThe former chair of the National Labor Relations Board in a new lawsuit Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of breaking the law when he fired her from the agency last week.Lawyers for Gwynne Wilcox argue that she was removed from her post for a “political purpose” in a manner that violates the 90-year-old statute that established the NLRB.Her lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court seeks an order reinstating her on the board…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. The measure, called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order,” is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people he has signed since he took office Jan. 20.“The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”Trump also gave…

The State Department issued new guidance on passports with “X” sex markers and applications that request to change a passport sex marker, according to a memo reviewed by NBC News.The new guidance comes after the State Department suspended all applications for passports and CRBAs, which are birth records for U.S. citizens born abroad, that request an “X” sex marker or a sex marker change, following a memo last month from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The policy change resulted in widespread confusion, particularly among the transgender community, about whether passports with an “X” sex marker would be valid for international travel…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia reached out to Elon Musk on the tech billionaire’s X platform this week, telling him federal prosecutors were at his service should workers at his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) face any threats. “Dear @elon, Please see this important letter,” Ed Martin wrote Monday. “We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or law-breaking by the disgruntled.” In the attached letter, Martin wrote that it was “good to work with the DOGE team” over the weekend, and he asked Musk to “utilize me and my staff to assist…

(The Center Square) – During a U.S. Senate hearing, Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho voiced his support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services, highlighting his dedication to healthcare transparency and reform.Crapo emphasized Kennedy’s lifelong advocacy against chronic illness and his commitment to ensuring greater transparency for both patients and taxpayers.Kennedy, who underwent a rigorous confirmation process, answered over 900 committee questions and made additional amendments to his ethics agreement beyond government requirements. His responses and actions, Crapo stated, demonstrate his commitment to the role.”Mr. Kennedy has proven his commitment to the role…

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision this week to detain some immigrants at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that was created after 9/11 for holding prisoners accused of terrorism is the beginning of a broader plan to hold more immigrants in the high-security prison, rather than the previously constructed low-level detention space for immigrants, six people familiar with the plans told NBC News.The plan is to expand the prison so that immigrants can be held not only inside the prison facility, but also in tent camps surrounded by fencing that have not been completely built, according…

In 1868, Secretary of State William Seward went on a territory-shopping spree. A year earlier, Seward had negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. If Seward’s acquisition of Alaska hadn’t been politically branded as a “folly,” he may have gotten his wish to add Greenland (and Iceland) to the expanding United States.America’s longstanding interest in Greenland and other northern territories—including Canada—was about expanding U.S. control over North America and the increasingly important arctic region, according to Ron Doel, a historian at Florida State University.“What’s interesting is that so much of U.S. ideology usually involved looking West,” says…