by Catherine Buchaniec | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 27 (UPI) — Defense lawyers who represent the accused mastermind behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole sought Wednesday to limit testimony from federal agents who interviewed an alternative suspected organizer of the attack. The...
by Julia Shapero | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Washington Sen. Patty Murray is helping lead efforts to restrict arms sales to countries accused of human rights violations after years of congress facing weakened control over weapons sales. Murray recently reintroduced the Values in Arms Export Act, a...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Brunswick, called on the Senate this week to pass comprehensive legislation expanding health care access for U.S. service members and veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while deployed at overseas military bases....
by Andrew Marquardt | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal for help to the U.S. Congress, showing a graphic video of obliterated buildings and dead civilians, members of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard from experts who...
by Julia Shapero | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to walk away from negotiations with Iran over a nuclear deal, emphasizing that it would help Russian President Vladimir Putin by providing “a massive subsidy” to Russia as his military...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 15, 2022 | National Security
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Name one U.S. military conflict after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The world stood still in the hours following...
