A Senate filibuster on the eve of World War I alienated a president, prompted a senator to bring a gun to the Senate floor, ...

Federal prosecutors charged an alleged top Sinaloa Cartel boss with terrorism and drug trafficking in a sweeping Chicago indictment.

Markets delivered solid Q4 2025 returns despite challenges as Fed rate cuts supported equities and bonds across asset classes ...

For decades, Washington has tried to paint weapons as an instrument of stability. History tells a different story.

The U.S. has confirmed that at least one American citizen is among the dead, and that another is among the injured receiving ...

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a ...

Four armed Cubans aboard a Florida-based speedboat died in a gunfight with Cuban border troops on Wednesday, officials said.

The Trump administration blocked Venezuela from paying Nicolas Maduro's legal fees, according to Maduro's attorney, sparking ...

Kenya's intelligence service warns that over 1,000 citizens may have been recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, many under false pretenses.

Denmark is buying U.S. missiles to defend Greenland as Washington openly flirts with taking it. Irony meets Arctic security.

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Canva / IPS Journal Given the social costs of recent reforms, the severity of fiscal constraints and evidence that welfare retrenchment can provoke political backlash, an explicit guns-versus-butter ...