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Apr 6, 2026 - World

Children and volunteers gathered at a nature park on the edge of Kyiv to release bats into the night sky

Apr 6, 2026 - World

Hungary's upcoming election has significant implications for the European Union

Apr 5, 2026 - World

An airstrike early Monday struck a residential building in a city southwest of Iran's capital, Tehran, killing at least 13 people, Iranian media reported.

Apr 5, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump has just laid the groundwork for one of the "greatest tragedies in American foreign policy history," according to a GOP analyst. Stewart Stevens, who was Mitt Romney's chief campaign strategist during his 2012 presidential campaign, argued in a recent interview on MS NOW's "Alex Witt Reports" that Trump appears incapable of recognizing the mistakes his administration has made in the war in Iran. He said that failure could create a situation where U.S. soldiers and Iranian civilians face "complete tragedies" of Trump's own making. "This is not a healthy human being who's making decisions here," Stevens said. "This is a very damaged guy who's in decline, who has no one around him to limit him, and we've stumbled into this war." Stevens added that Trump's lack of an exit strategy could compound the issues he faces in Iran. "There is no exit strategy here," Stevens continued. "Donald Trump said that he wants to decide who's going to be the head of Iran. Well, that ain't going to happen. And it's the makings of one of the great tragedies in American foreign policy history."

Apr 5, 2026 - World

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth alarmed two national security experts after making his latest "dangerous" decision. Last week, Hegseth fired Army Gen. Randy George, the Army's chief of staff, over what the New York Times described as "hostility" between the Defense Secretary and senior military leaders. George's firing happened at a time when the U.S. appears to be considering an escalation in the war in Iran, one that could result in the country putting boots on the ground. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner and Nancy Youssef expressed alarm over the decision during a new interview on "Alex Witt Reports" on Sunday. "It makes people less willing to give their candid military advice for fear that doing so could cost them their jobs, and the absence of a clear explanation for what's happening," Youssef said. "And that has an impact on the conduct of the war. Because if there's ever a time that top military commanders and the president need candid advice, it is during a war, certainly one as complex as this one. And so that's where I think we'll feel it immediately."Manner said Hegseth's decision to fire George was "very dangerous" and could put U.S. troops in a bad situation. "That is an extremely dangerous situation to be in. Only two other leaders in the world have seen that, and that was Stalin and Hitler, who purged the best officers that they had before each of the wars they engaged in," Manner said. "It's very dangerous. It does not help at all in terms of giving confidence to the American fighting man."