The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the Department of Defense and South Korea reached a new cost-sharing agreement for the country to fund over 4,000 Korean nationals who work for US Forces Korea through the end of 2020. The department said in a statement that the $200 million agreement “is a direct reflection of the United…… MORE
A former top policy official at the Pentagon, James Miller, resigned from his role on the Defense Advisory Board due to what he said was Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s visible support for law enforcement officers’ clearing of protesters from Lafayette Square on Monday. Miller called what he saw as Esper’s support for suppressing the…… MORE
We’re at the midway point of 2020, in terms of the coming presidential election. Twenty-two weeks ago was New Year’s. Twenty-two weeks from now is Election Day. Twenty-two weeks is a lifetime in politics, as CNN political director David Chalian will tell you. (He’s the one who noted the 22 week detail on Tuesday). And…… MORE
When President Donald Trump first raised the idea Monday morning of emerging from the 13-foot gate that surrounds the White House, aides were skeptical. The logistics of any last-minute presidential movement are difficult even under normal circumstances, and these were anything but. For three straight nights, protests around the 18-acre White House compound had turned…… MORE
Black Americans are much less likely to trust their local police and law enforcement to look out for them and their families than others — 36% trust the police, while 77% of white people and 69% of Americans overall said the same, according to a poll from Axios-Ipsos out Tuesday morning. Protests over the police…… MORE
Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has rebuked President Donald Trump’s threats to use the military on protesters, writing that “our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so.” “Even in the midst of the carnage we…… MORE
On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked about President Donald Trump’s speech Monday night and decision to forcibly remove peaceful protesters ahead of a photo op in front of St. John’s Church. “I’m not going to critique other people’s performances,” offered the highest ranking Republican elected leader in Congress. Those eight words amount…… MORE
Officials in Washington, DC, and Philadelphia are letting voters know they can travel to and from polls on Tuesday night even as curfews aimed at curbing protests take effect. In Washington, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a citywide curfew that starts at 7 p.m. and ends the following morning at 6 a.m. Polls are set to…… MORE
A former minister at the church President Donald Trump used as the backdrop for a photo Monday evening slammed the move as “a sacrilege for all people of all faiths.” Following a speech from the White House Rose Garden, the President walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church, a house of worship used by American presidents…… MORE
Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday publicly reacted for the first time to the national unrest surrounding the police killing of George Floyd, saying that “it is time for America to examine our tragic failures.” Bush, a Republican, said in a statement that he and former first lady Laura Bush “are anguished by the…… MORE
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