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"We Respond To Respect": Iran To Conduct New Military Drill In Which "Rockets Will Be Used"

"We Respond To Respect": Iran To Conduct New Military Drill In Which "Rockets Will Be Used"

Two weeks after the White House extended sanctions on two dozen Iranian entities in retaliation for a recent ballistic missile test, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard is set to conduct military drills next week, a senior commander announced Saturday, despite warnings from the United States not to engage in such activity and a warning from the White House which said it was putting Iran "on notice."

Priebus: Take Trump Seriously When He Calls The Press "The Enemy"

Priebus: Take Trump Seriously When He Calls The Press "The Enemy"

Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, doubled down on Trump's vocal warnings to the press and advised Americans to take President Trump’s attacks on the media “seriously,” following the president’s denunciations of the press as the “enemy.”

“There’s been a debate about when to take the president seriously,” CBS’ John Dickerson said in a “Face the Nation” interview with Priebus Saturday. “He recently tweeted that the press was the enemy of the American people. Should we take that seriously from him?”

New Political Turmoil In Italy After Renzi Quits As Ruling Party Leader, Triggering Re-election Battle

New Political Turmoil In Italy After Renzi Quits As Ruling Party Leader, Triggering Re-election Battle

Two months after an unexpected, landslide loss in the December 4 constitutional referendum which cost him his job as Italy's prime minister, on Sunday Matteo Renzi quit as leader of Italy’s ruling party, in the process triggering a re-election fight against minority dissidents that threatens the stability of the center-left government, Bloomberg reports.

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