Two attorneys arrested for allegedly being involved in a Molotov cocktail attack on a New York City Police Department car returned to jail on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted prosecutors’ request for an emergency stay. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis were arrested during a wave of violence and unrest […]

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would endorse any candidate who would run against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) after the senator came out in support of a statement from former defense secretary James Mattis that heavily criticized Trump. Murkowski, a swing-vote senator, had told reporters earlier on Thursday that she is “struggling” with the idea […]

A Republican swing-vote senator told reporters she’s “struggling” to continue to support GOP President Donald Trump after a broadside launched by former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “I thought General Mattis’s words were true and honest and necessary and overdue,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said in Washington on Thursday. “When I saw Gen. Mattis’s comments yesterday […]

WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has authorized the use of troops and other military resources at the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. officials said on Oct. 26, bolstering President Donald Trump’s battle against migrants trekking toward the United States. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mattis’ authorization did not include a specific number of troops, […]

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order to send at least 800 additional troops to the United States-Mexico border, as a migrant caravan consisting of thousands of migrants primarily from Central America heads that way. The group, which is mostly in Mexico and heading north, has caught the ire of top American […]

WASHINGTON—China has canceled a security meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis that had been planned for this month, a senior U.S. official said. The official, who is involved in China policy and spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Sept. 30 that it isn’t clear if the cancellation is related to the broad […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo travel to New Delhi this week in an effort to seal a new defense cooperation agreement with their Indian counterparts despite tensions over threatened American sanctions. Hanging over the meeting, planned for Sept. 6, is the prospect that the U.S. will impose economic sanctions […]

Secretary of Defense James Mattis met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on June 22 in Washington, D.C., where the two reaffirmed the U.S.-Jordan security partnership. Exact details on the discussion are slim, but a Pentagon release says the two leaders “discussed a broad range of regional issues.”  Mattis thanked King Abdullah for his leadership […]

Congressional leaders received a briefing from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis while they visited the White House for negotiations. “The President’s meeting with Congressional leadership moved from the Oval Office to the Situation Room where they are all receiving an update on our military by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah […]

WASHINGTON–U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that the killing of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh would, in the short term, likely worsen an already dire humanitarian situation in the country. Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war, abandoning his Iran-aligned Houthi allies in […]

President Donald Trump said nothing has changed in how the U.S. government will deal with North Korea in light of the communist regime’s ballistic missile launch two hours earlier. “We will take care of that situation,” said President Trump in an impromptu press briefing Tuesday afternoon. “We have a very serious approach and nothing changed.” […]

Trump administration officials insist that the current U.S. military operations against ISIS and other terrorist groups are still covered by congressional authorizations that were passed in 2001-2002, dismissing the growing calls for the administration to seek a renewed authorization from Congress. Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a Senate […]

Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis said that the United States is not seeking war, but rather a complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. His comments came as he visited the border between North and South Korea on Oct. 26. Mattis also reassured South Korea that the United States would stand with its close ally in […]

SEOUL–U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis flew into Seoul on Friday for annual defense talks as tensions with North Korea climb ahead of a visit to the region next month by President Donald Trump. Mattis has emphasized diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis during his week-long trip to Asia, even as North […]

CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Philippines—U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he would talk with Asian allies about North Korea and the crisis caused by Pyongyang’s “reckless” provocations, as he kicked off a week-long trip to the region on Monday to meet defense chiefs in the Philippines. Mattis’ trip to Asia, which will also include stops in […]

A story published by NBC News on Wednesday claiming that President Trump had sought a tenfold increase in the nuclear arsenal of the United States was dismissed by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The article, which relied entirely on anonymous officials, was published just a week after the network published another disputed article claiming that Secretary […]

Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis said the U.S. military should be ready in response to tensions with North Korea. Tensions with North Korea reached a high point after the regime threatened the United States with nuclear weapons and conducted a new underground nuclear test last month. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of […]

Defense Secretary James Mattis has given the Taliban an ultimatum under the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. He said the war to eradicate the terrorist organization will only be stopped under one condition: that it abandons terrorism. “It is time for the Taliban to recognize they cannot kill their way to power, nor can they […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul on Wednesday to pledge support for the government of President Ashraf Ghani, with the precarious security in the Afghan capital underlined by a rocket attack on the airport hours after he touched down. Arriving from India, where he sought support for the U.S. administration’s new South Asia security […]

President Donald Trump met with Defense Secretary James Mattis and other military leaders on Sunday after North Korea conducted a sixth nuclear weapon test. While readings suggest the test was not of a hydrogen bomb, readings did detect what appears to be a nuclear explosion. Defense Secretary Mattis said that he presented the president with […]

The number of U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan was higher than what Americans were being told. This was caused by a tweak in how troop levels were counted, which omitted U.S. forces on temporary missions. Defense Secretary James Mattis revised and simplified this system, and on Aug. 30 the Department of Defense (DOD) revealed this […]

AMMAN—President Donald Trump has made a decision on the United States’ strategy for Afghanistan after a “sufficiently rigorous” review process, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday. However, Mattis did not provide details on when the White House would make an announcement or what the decision was on Afghanistan, where fighting still rages more than […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday told North Korea it must stop any action that would “lead to the end of its regime” and “stand down” in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. These are some of strongest comments Mattis has made on North Korea. In the past he has said that the United States can respond […]

RIYADH—U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that Iran was playing a destabilizing role in the region but its influence would be overcome to try to reach a solution to the conflict in Yemen through U.N.-brokered negotiations. At least 10,000 people have been killed and more than 3 million displaced in the war in […]

WASHINGTON—Tensions between the United States and Russia will not “spiral out of control” following last week’s U.S. cruise missile strikes on a Syrian air base, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday, describing it as a one-off response to Syria’s use of banned chemical weapons. President Donald Trump, in his biggest foreign policy decision since […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee has overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon. The Republican-led panel voted 24-3 to clear the bill after Mattis testified before the committee. Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand, Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren opposed it. The measure overrides a prohibition against former U.S. service members […]

The House of Representatives last night approved an amendment to a broader bill that will allow the government to fund the training of Syrian rebels who will serve as the primary fighting force for the United States against the Islamic State inside Syria.  This measure is a major piece, if not the keystone, of President […]

One of Metro Manila’s most politically connected prisons has one heck of a work-release program. Periodically, they send out two convicts to execute a gangland-style hit, and after a spot of shopping, both are safely back inside before anyone is the wiser.  However, a botched assignment and a troublesome cop will create headaches for the […]

After months of heated debate, in a late night session on June 26, New York City Council passed two bills with veto-proof majorities that will increase oversight of the NYPD and strengthen racial profiling protections for people subject to the NYPD’s controversial practice of stop-and-frisk. African-American and Hispanic New Yorkers and their supporters have been […]

On an unusually warm February evening, Divine Performing Arts swept the stage at The John F. Kennedy Center...