Hungary’s Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced Thursday a sweeping anti-corruption drive targeting projects approved under the previous administration led by Viktor Orbán, saying the government had filed criminal complaints over projects worth about $3.2 billion while vowing not to increase security after being spat on by a passerby earlier this week.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, accusing him of making false statements to Congress about the scope of his investigation into President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia will move forward only if the kingdom joins the Abraham Accords and formally normalizes relations with Israel.

The United States is rapidly moving additional military forces, aircraft, medical personnel and weaponry toward the Middle East, giving President Donald Trump expanded options for a potentially wider campaign against Iran, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Israel’s newly appointed Mossad director, Roman Gofman, quietly traveled to Washington earlier this month for high-level talks with CIA Director John Ratcliffe and White House officials focused on Iran’s nuclear program and the continuing regional war, according to an Axios report published Wednesday.

The House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday barring members of Congress and their immediate families from purchasing individual stocks while lawmakers remain in office.

The Republican-led House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill Wednesday that incorporates major election integrity provisions championed by President Donald Trump.

Republicans’ blueprint for a third party-line bill passed the U.S. House on a slim two-vote margin Wednesday, despite grumblings from fiscal hawks over the bill’s $95 billion price tag.

Ukraine intensified its long-range drone campaign against Russian-occupied Crimea and other targets Wednesday while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faced mounting political pressure at home over a sweeping military leadership shake-up that has triggered nationwide protests.

The Netherlands will ban the import, purchase, sale, and intermediary trade of goods originating from Israeli settlements beginning September 22, becoming the latest European Union nation to adopt such restrictions.