Donald Trump, the New York real estate billionaire and reality television star fabled for bluster (and bad hair), has ruled the polls leading into primary season.
And he's done it with minimal — and late — attention to the GOP's most loyal base of conservative evangelicals. Making up perhaps for lost time, Trump went to the nation's largest Christian university, Liberty University, in January to pledge, "I'm going to protect Christians," who, he said, are losing their power in American society.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's offer to send troops to fight Islamic State in Syria is as much about the kingdom's growing determination to flex its military might as it is about answering U.S. calls for more help from its allies in the Middle East.
A Saudi deployment runs the potentially explosive risk of confrontation between one of the Arab world's most powerful militaries and forces keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power. That's if the Saudi proposal even gets translated into action.
