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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 1, 2026, broadening U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq. [1][2] The order, formally titled "Imposing Sanctions on…
The Department of Defense announced May 1 that it had finalized agreements with eight commercial AI companies to deploy their technologies on the department's most sensitive classified networks. The eight firms are Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX,…
The Trump administration plans to shutter the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), a U.S.-run facility in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, established to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and coordinate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Seven diplomats familiar with the center's…
President Donald Trump notified Congress on May 1 that hostilities with Iran "have terminated," asserting that a ceasefire in place since April 7 satisfied the requirements of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and eliminated the need for congressional authorization…
The White House formally sent to the Senate the nomination of David Brat, of Virginia, to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Commonwealth of Australia. The nomination was announced by the White House and…
President Donald Trump signed into law on April 30 a bipartisan appropriations measure restoring funding to most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending what had become the longest shutdown of a federal department in U.S. history. The partial shutdown,…
The British government formally declared an antisemitism emergency on April 30 and announced £25 million (approximately $34 million) in new security funding following a double stabbing and a pattern of arson attacks targeting Jewish sites across London. The government pledged…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 30 that the administration's current ceasefire with Iran has frozen the 60-day clock under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a legal position that Democratic members immediately rejected…
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States is reviewing a potential reduction of its military forces in Germany, a declaration that blindsided Defense Department officials and arrived with no prior interagency coordination. Trump posted on Truth Social that…
The Department of Justice unsealed a grand jury indictment on April 30 charging Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former Mexican officials with narcotics importation conspiracy and related weapons offenses, placing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in…