by Hangyun Kim | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions with the United States, China is expected to heavily emphasize national security and, to a lesser degree, technology independence, in its upcoming its 14th five-year plan, several China experts said Thursday. While...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Nov 10, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Politics
For 15 years, Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski served the 3rd Congressional District of Illinois, an area with parts of Chicago and its southwest suburbs. Progressive Democrat Marie Newman, a resident of one of those suburbs, upset him in the primary and, on Election Day,...
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by Dalia Faheid | Oct 1, 2020 | Demographics, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Trump proposed Wednesday that the U.S. admit 15,000 refugees for fiscal year 2021, lower than any previous caps since the refugee resettlement program’s inception in 1980. “This is definitely the Trump administration’s attempt to...
by Mark Satter | Mar 11, 2020 | Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON – Ukrainian war veterans and American lawmakers watched as Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., played a video clip of a firefight in eastern Ukraine during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee today. “As you’ve seen from the clips we’ve...
by Mark Satter | Oct 22, 2019 | Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee grilled top Trump administration diplomats Tuesday on the impact of Turkey’s military incursion in northeast Syria, just as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was set to expire. Questioning led by Committee...
by Lucas Robinson | Nov 28, 2018 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved closer Wednesday to ending U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a rebuke of the close U.S. ally amid outrage over the Middle Eastern kingdom’s war in which tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. The Senate took a...
