Washington( CNN) The top US military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen.... " It was a kind of Saturday Night Massacre in reverse," Leonnig and Rucker write.... The book recounts how for the first time in modern US history the nation's top military officer, whose role is to advise the president, was preparing for a showdown with the commander in chief because he feared a coup attempt after Trump lost the November election....

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter.... And you know what that means, because part of failure is death.... They would rather see that than have me get elected." When Trump supported the shutdown, he was acting in part on the advice of Dr....

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter.... The 45 days of federally recommended social distancing ended Thursday.... Despite the warnings of health experts, President Donald Trump was no longer trying to hedge his bets....

Martha McSally and her Democratic challenger, Mark Kelly.... Every recent public survey in Arizona has found both Trump and McSally trailing Biden and Kelly, with the Democrat usually leading by even slightly more in the Senate contest than in the presidential race.... " They are so tied together." These patterns in Arizona are just one measure of a larger trend: Senate elections are becoming more about the party and less about the individual candidates....

A rush transcript of" This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, July 25, 2021 on ABC News is below.... This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors.... For previous show transcripts, visit the" This Week" transcript archive. MARTHA RADDATZ: Secretary Blinken, the president is saying that the threat of a further attack of the Kabul airport remains highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours....

" We need to understand details rather than just have a knee-jerk response."？... " His officials worked up solutions over the weekend and I understand they were presented to Treasury yesterday." It's absolutely crucial that the speed of the Treasury assessment is quick and swift.... Were the decisions informed by the science at the time and do we now know different things about the pandemic to what we knew in February in 2020?...

The US operation to fly out more than 80, 000 people is history’s biggest airlift, topping the numbers brought out of Vietnam at the fall of Saigon in 1975.... “ The World Food Programme has warned that core food supplies could run out by October, as acute hunger is rising across the country.... A senior German diplomat said the Taliban had offered assurances that Afghans with legal documents will be able to travel on commercial flights beyond the end of the month....

Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history.... And they did it facing the crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country.... And they did it knowing ISIS-K terrorists, sworn enemies of the Taliban, were lurking in the midst of those crowds....

“ There are no easy ways of having these conversations.... We want to try and recapture the western lead on some of these things – on cyber, on AI.“ We want to reach out to other partners, this is not an exclusive thing.... In that group, you couldn’t do the full sharing of the technology which underpins Aukus.” Mr Johnson said the row over Australia’s contract for French subs was a matter for Paris and Canberra, but that the UK remained “ massively ” invested in its relationship with its cros

Open this photo in gallery People receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination clinic at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on June 27, 2021. Cole Burston/ The Associated PressNo one disputes that the world is unfair.... Instead, they jostled for their own domestic use. But there are more specific reasons why vaccines have and have not reached the haves and have-nots. COVID-19 unexpectedly devastated wealthy countries first – and some of them were among the few places that make the vac