by Matthew Shea | Jun 11, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, National Security
WASHINGTON (AN) — Mary Speck was working at her office at a congressional-funded think tank on a Friday afternoon in March when she heard a loud message. “There was an address over the intercom saying: ‘Lock yourselves in the office. Please stay in your...
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by Atmika Iyer | Jun 9, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that it would not allow relatives of victims and survivors of Hamas attacks from 2001 to 2003 to reopen a case in which they accused a Lebanese bank of providing financial services to...
by Leonardo Pini | Jun 5, 2025 | Foreign Affairs, National Security
WASHINGTON–On June. 4, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted its annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. During the Spring and Summer of 1989, the Chinese government cracked down on student-led protests that demanded...
by Matthew Shea | May 15, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
This week, President Donald Trump announced plans for the Department of Defense to accept a gift of a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to be remodeled into a new Air Force One, a position he has defended despite constitutional, ethical and national...
by Matthew Shea | May 14, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will end U.S. sanctions on Syria “for the first time in more than a decade,” presenting a major U.S. policy shift that follows the overthrow of the Assad regime in December. The removal of sanctions, which Trump...
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by Ashley N. Soriano | May 1, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON — The House Military and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Tuesday questioned Department of Defense officials about an increase in unauthorized drone activity over military bases and criminal cartels’ drone usage at the southern border. Lawmakers...
