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H.R. McMaster

In this close-up shot, former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster listens as he sits between former White House economic advisor Gary Cohn (L), former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Vice President Mike Pence (R).

Trump picks hardliner Bolton to replace McMaster as national security adviser

Global Politics

President Donald Trump shook up his foreign policy team again on Thursday, replacing H.R. McMaster as national security adviser with John Bolton, a hawk who has advocated using military force against North Korea and Iran.

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 17, 2018.

Trump’s ‘insulting’ treatment of Kelly and McMaster might drive both from White House

Global Politics
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro during the closing campaign ceremony for the Constituent Assembly election in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 27.

The US sanctions Venezuela’s President Maduro and calls him ‘a dictator’

Economics
Mike Mullen

Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen says the US must keep the door open with Moscow

Conflict
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