President Trump’s view that U.S. forces cannot alter the strategic balance in the Middle East was fundamentally shared by his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama.
The bill was expected to pass the House on Thursday and be sent to President Trump before the midnight Friday deadline, when funding lapses for nine federal departments.
The cables quote China’s president calling America a bully, show concerns about Russian nuclear weapons in Crimea and detail the White House walking back President Trump’s words.
Pentagon officials were trying to talk the president out of the proposed withdrawal, arguing that such a move would betray Kurdish allies who have fought alongside American troops in Syria.
Facebook collects more information on more people than almost any other private corporation in history. And it gave dozens of companies more intrusive access to that data than it ever disclosed.
The judge told Mr. Flynn, “Arguably, you sold your country out.” But he delayed the sentencing while Mr. Flynn completes his cooperation agreement with prosecutors.
The Senate passed the most substantial changes in a generation to federal prison and sentencing laws. The House will follow, and President Trump is expected to sign it.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Fox News that the Trump administration can find $5 billion for a border wall without getting it from Congress.
Mr. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, is to be sentenced on Tuesday for lying to federal investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
An account of the interview was filed on the eve of Mr. Flynn’s sentencing for lying about his interactions with the Russian ambassador after the 2016 election.