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Report: U.S.-Based Plane Caught Bringing Arms into Venezuela

In stark contrast to Trump, California AG's speech is hopeful tribute to immigrant perseverance

El Paso’s Message for Trump Before Rally: Don’t Speak for Us.  A young woman and her friends celebrate her quinceaƱera by posing for photographs at an overlook in El Paso. The tension surrounding President Trump’s planned visit to the city on Monday is revealing political fissures.

Lawmakers Reintroduce War Powers Resolution To End Carnage in Yemen and Reclaim Congress' Constitutional Authority: "Congress must end support for the catastrophic war in Yemen led by a despotic Saudi regime," said Sen. Bernie Sanders

Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America: A survey of The New York Times archives shows the Times editorial board has supported 10 out of 12 American-backed coups in Latin America

"The Worst Option is War": US Intervention in Venezuela Will Only Deepen the Country’s Crisis.  The men directed by President Donald Trump to "handle" the situation in Venezuela are not clear-headed diplomats capable of working for peace and democracy. They are war criminals and should be behind bars.

Migrating birds to be denied entry back into the UK in the spring following Brexit

Iran's revolution turns 40

DONALD TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TELLS IRAN'S LEADER, 'I DON'T THINK YOU'LL HAVE MANY' YEARS LEFT

Iraqi rejects Trump plan to watch Iran: Move to boot U.S. grows, officials say

The brewing crisis over Taiwan: Taiwan's separate status, says China's leader, Xi Jinping, is "a wound to the Chinese nation left by history." Is a crisis coming?

Hispanics Are Like Everyone Else Who Comes to America: The idea that immigrants from Latin America fail to assimilate doesn’t hold up.

Freed Iranian Hostage Jason Rezaian: 'They Messed With the Wrong Guy.'  The more time Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife spent in an Iranian prison, the clearer it became that he was being jailed for doing his job.

Journalist Jason Rezaian On His 544 Days In Iranian Prison

Pence: Europe must withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

Trump official freaks out after Rep. Omar asks him if he’d back genocide in Venezuela like ‘you did in Guatemala’

U.S. Border Patrol Detained U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish in Montana

Three arrested in Florida in violent scheme targeting undocumented immigrants; four more at large

Reporter reveals ICE official is Ann Coulter fanboy; Coulter responds with anti-Asian Twitter attack

Portland far-right 'Patriot' street brawlers in disarray as Proud Boys part ways amid violent talk

Can Progressive Dems Fix Trump’s Nightmarish Foreign Policy?  The ascendant progressive wing of the Democratic party has plenty of ideas gaining momentum at home—but what about issues abroad?

Violence from the Far-Right is Growing. Why Aren’t We Doing More to Stop it?  Newly elected House Democrats promise to crack down on “domestic terrorism.”

Why We Don’t Need a Wall: When we are at our best, we don’t spend billions of dollars building monuments to paranoia. And we sure don’t allow fixation on the erection of such a monument — call it a wall, call it a fence — to bring useful functions of government to a grinding halt.

Open thread for night owls: Excerpts from the March edition of Harper's Index

Israel, PLO, Jordan, EU and UN must agree on boundaries of Palestine

ISRAEL SAYS IT WANTS ‘WAR WITH IRAN’ AND IS MEETING WITH ARAB COUNTRIES TO ‘ADVANCE’ IT

La Gran PatraƱa/A Blatant Lie

Democrats did in on immigration, and it’s not about a wall

Merkel Rejects U.S. Demands That Europe Pull Out of Iran Nuclear Deal: At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany delivered a spirited defense of multilateral institutions in a world increasingly marked by great power rivalry.

How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days

U.S. Military Warns of Threat From Chinese-Run Space Station in Argentina: Defense officials are worried about a remote compound Beijing says helped it land on the far side of the moon.

Guantanamo prison looms as option as IS fight ends

IMMIGRATION & THE BORDER: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
"We have the kids in the U.S. and the parents down in Central America, and now they'll bring all these child welfare agencies into play... It's just a recipe for disaster."

INSTEAD OF PUNISHING THE SAUDIS FOR KHASHOGGI, TRUMP WANTS TO HAND THEM NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY

Coast Guard Officer Plotted to Kill Democrats and Journalists, Prosecutors Say
Federal agents said that when they searched the Maryland apartment of Lt. Christopher P. Hasson, they found 15 firearms and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, displayed in a photo that was included in a court filing.

Putin vows to target U.S. if missiles are deployed in Europe: He said Moscow would have no choice but to respond to such a move because it would drastically cut the time it took U.S. missiles to reach Russia.

NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT WARNS THERE'S 'A CHANCE THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN IS CONTROLLING' TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE

Israel’s Latest Improvements to Arrow-3 Anti-Missile System

Government shutdown: What's in the deal on border security and federal funding?

2019 federal pay raise likely as lawmakers finalize shutdown-avoiding spending package

Government shutdown watch: What's in the 1,169 page spending package, and will Trump sign it?

Army Major Mathew Golsteyn defends himself after US charges him in suspected Taliban bomb maker's death

Immunity granted to seven SEALs in war crimes case

In 1941, British and Soviet Troops Invaded Iran: The Shah's troops barely could resist

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