As Israel targets Irans nuclear sites, pressure builds in Washington over whether President Trump can act without Congress.

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The question being projected by the White House as President Donald Trump mulls an offensive strike against Iran is: Will he ...

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President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran carried both hope and fear. The hope was that the destruction of Iran’s rogue ...

There's a viral tweet from October 2016 that has since been immortalized as a meme — meant as a kind of shorthand for when ...

A Promise Made After a Bloody Past The War Powers Resolution was born from the trauma of Vietnam ... prolonged through executive decisions and paid for with tens of thousands of American lives. When ...

At the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. activists reflected on what the movement can teach us today.

Though Congress acted after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam to restrain presidents in their use of military force, recent ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The OLC memo that justified the strike against the Iranian general in Iraq also argued Trump could rely on a 2002 vote by ...