US and Iran take widely different approaches in messaging battle around peace

Former U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino issued a message of support to immigration agents on Friday amid clashes between federal officers and protesters outside of Delaney Hall immigration detention center in New Jersey this week.  Bovino urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to “give them hell and live the moment!!” in his post. ...

The U.S. military on Friday killed three men in its latest strike on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote in a post on the social platform X that the vessel was "transiting along known narco-trafficking routes" and being operated by designated terrorist organizations, but the...

The former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded guilty to one count of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government within the United States on Friday. Eileen Wang appeared in federal court in Los Angeles, where she delivered the expected guilty plea. She allegedly helped promote pro-China propaganda in the U.S. by sharing prewritten […]

The head of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) met with senior leaders of the Cuban military on Friday amid heightened tensions between the two countries' governments.  Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan joined Cuba’s First Deputy Minister of the Chief of the General Staff Roberto Legrá Sotolongo and other leaders near Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Southcom announced...