WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of F-15K aircraft upgrade and related equipment to South Korea for an estimated cost of $6.2 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
It said the primary contractors will be Boeing Co, RTX Corp and BAE Systems.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vented his displeasure Monday after two Democratic-appointed federal judges reversed their decisions to retire in what appear to be efforts to stop President-elect Trump from nominating their successors. McConnell called the unusual decisions to forgo retirement following Trump’s sweeping victory last month a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the…
The war in Ukraine was simply not mentioned.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hit Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski below the belt with a vulgar insult saying they’d kissed the President-elect Donald Trump “a little bit lower” than “the ring” at their recent visit to Mar-a-Lago. On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News’ Hannity, host Sean Hannity marveled at Scarborough and Brzezinski’s recent disclosure that they traveled to the president-elect’s Florida residence after the election to meet their professed foe: “You have Joe and Mi
The former MSNBC host put the right on blast for their silence over two questionable moves by the president-elect.
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene and far-right activist Laura Loomer are fighting again. This time, it’s over a post by Greene regarding Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, for tax evasion and gun charges. While Greene and Loomer may seem like two sides of the same coin— both are MAGA provocateurs with long histories of incendiary comments— their frequent spats on social media show the two aren’t allies outside of their allegiance to Donald Trump. After Biden’s surprise move to pardon his
"If it continues like this, we will lose."
A drone operator has allegedly discovered an open-cut mining pit and a new road at the site.
The president-elect dismissed the Canadian prime minister’s tariff concerns with a confrontational joke.
Manila has downplayed presence of the Russian submarine in international waters
Three hours after he imposed martial law, Yoon Suk Yeol was forced to lift it after MPs voted to block it.
Having family in the nation’s highest office definitely has its perks.
China must protect its overseas interests related to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) amid growing global risks, President Xi Jinping said on Monday. Speaking at a working conference on BRI projects, Beijing's sprawling effort to build out a global infrastructure and trade network that connects to China, Xi warned that the international environment has become "tough and complicated". "In recent years, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, with a significant rise in unila
The Delaware judge who denied Tesla CEO Elon Musk a $56 billion compensation package once did so for a second time on Monday, dealing a fresh legal defeat to the billionaire.
Experts weigh in on whether the now president-elect Donald Trump can spare himself
The Texas senator made a vulgar suggestion about the MSNBC hosts' meeting with Donald Trump.
Trump appears to have excluded himself from following the same guidelines he signed into law four years ago
“It’s not about hate, it’s not about discrimination, it’s not about being racist,” Tom Homan said.
Why men who reported for duty after October 7 are now refusing to fight
(Reuters) -The United States on Monday launched its third crackdown in three years on China's semiconductor industry, curbing exports to 140 companies, including chip equipment maker Naura Technology Group, among other moves. The effort to hobble Beijing's chipmaking ambitions also hits Chinese chip toolmakers Piotech, ACM Research and SiCarrier Technology with new export restrictions as part of the package, which also takes aim at shipments of advanced memory chips and more chipmaking tools to China.
The incoming Trump administration fills Russian state TV propagandists with glee. In mid-November, when president-elect Donald Trump started to announce his future appointees, state TV host Olga Skabeeva gushed, “All of them are totally wonderful!” Evgeny Popov, Skabeeva’s husband and the co-host of Russia’s 60 Minutes, concurred, describing Trump’s picks as his “radical dream team” and gleefully noting, “All of them personally despise Zelensky.” He cautiously added, “They aren’t friends of Russ
