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ISIS: Creeping into Canada, Mexico?

The terrorist group that President Barack Obama famously referred to as the "JV team" may be gaining ground in Canada and Mexico. On Wednesday an Islamic State sympathizer blew himself up in Ontario during an encounter with police, and another man arrested in Ohio reportedly told federal investigators

Donald Trump

Trump vows to put ‘America first’ in foreign policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security "above all else" if elected president, warning allies they would be left to defend themselves if they don't "pay their fair share." He also called for

Syria

Is the U.S. military strategy doing more harm or good in the Middle East?

Editor's note: This article is part of our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH that will next air on Tuesday, May 17 on PBS and online at pbs.org. The show features fact-based debate on major issues of the day, without the shouting.

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Making a mockery of motives

Earlier this month, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the threat of radical Islamic terrorism to the U.S. as nothing more than "a Republican talking point." The statement, made to CNN (one of the administration's favorite safe spaces), seems odd considering that CIA Director John

Barack Obama

Lynch calls out Obama for “political correctness,” says WH should have used force on ISIS after Orlando

U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch has some harsh words for President Barack Obama. Calling Obama's response to terrorism "politically correct," the outspoken Democratic congressman from Southie told Boston Herald Radio on Tuesday that the president is wrong to shy away from using the term "

Donald Trump

Trump’s new Obama claims push into uncharted territory

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's latest accusation against President Barack Obama — that he's putting U.S. enemies ahead of America's own people — is thrusting him into uncharted territory for the presidential candidate of any major political party. Trump spent the first days following the Orlando

Barack Obama

US tells allies it may rethink Afghan troop drawdown

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has told NATO allies America will take a new look at its plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, a British official says, a fresh indication that U.S. involvement in the country is not

Barack Obama

Obama widens US Afghan role during final months in office

WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from ending the two wars he inherited from the Bush administration, Barack Obama is wrestling with an expanded set of conflicts in the final months of his presidency, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and Syria, with no end in sight. In Afghanistan, where a Taliban resurgence