President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

As recently as Friday President Trump was talking up efforts to find a negotiated solution to the U.S. tensions with Iran. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports from the White House on the details that led to the unprecedented strike.

The U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on Sunday, dropping massive bombs on the country’s ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military

Trump is expected to fly to Corpus Christi to visit the city’s port and tout his economic policies, like he did in stops in Georgia and Iowa earlier this year.

During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.

President Donald Trump has caused an uproar after suggesting that the United States could soon launch a “peaceful takeover” of Cuba, according to Mediaite. “The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big scale of trouble, as you know. They have no money,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday.

Tensions between the United States and Cuba have been escalating recently, with President Trump putting new sanctions and tariffs on the Caribbean country after the operation to capture former

Woodrow Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump, particularly when it comes to race.