US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Tuesday that Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration for the post “so that he can devote more time to his family.” A 2011 incident involving Shanahan’s son beating his mother with a baseball bat and fracturing her skull was earlier cited as a ...
Russia on Tuesday called for restraint to avoid escalation in the Middle East after the US said it was deploying additional troops due to heightened tensions with Iran. “We are urging all the sides to show restraint,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, adding: “We would prefer not ...
