Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is defending a proposal to give the Secret Service up to $1 billion for security upgrades to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, saying the total is “what it costs to protect the President of the United States in a very …[#item_full_content]

Iran prefers conflict with US over peace to suppress internal uprising, human rights activist warns
Regime leaders in Iran are more content to see continued confrontation with the United States and its Gulf neighbors rather than pursuing peace in an
