by Khadija Islow | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –President Donald Trump’s meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018 and 2019 did nothing to limit North Korea ‘s nuclear program and instead gave North Korea legitimacy, an expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies told a...
by Martha Castro | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration should impose sanctions on Egyptian officials to prevent the deaths of at least four American citizens detained in Egypt, said human rights activists and members of Congress. Mustafa Kassem, an American citizen, died in an Egyptian...
by Angelina Campanile | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—The Institute of Peace on Tuesday welcomed former U.S. Government senior officials to discuss recent developments in U.S.-Taliban negotiations. “We believe we are close to executing a period of a significant and lasting reduction in violence,” said former...
by Martha Castro | Feb 13, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Despite U.S. programs aimed at helping Mexico fight organized crime, the country is still plagued by a soaring homicide rate and there are few signs that conditions are improving, members of a House subcommittee said Thursday. “We have put so much money...
by James Pollard | Feb 12, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — National security will likely be an important issue for Democrats during the 2020 presidential election cycle, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Wednesday at a panel discussion on foreign policy. “We just went through an impeachment crisis that was...
by Evan Ochsner | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The USS Fitzgerald returns to sea this week after its 2017 collision with a tanker off the coast of Japan in which seven service members were killed. On Wednesday, Navy Vice Admiral Richard A. Brown and Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder told a joint...
by Martha Castro | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, National Security, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump emphasized U.S. foreign relations in Latin America and the Middle East on Tuesday in his State of the Union speech, but failed to mention any concerns about Russia and North Korea. “In general, it’s been a pretty light speech on...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The House Subcommittee on National Security Tuesday probed the Trump Administration’s actions in Afghanistan, where the United States is currently engaged in its longest-ever conflict. “Obviously we have not succeeded in keeping the bad guys out,”...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds before midnight, the closest the clock has inched to midnight and a signal of “a very dangerous world,” officials of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said on Thursday. The world’s proximity to Doomsday moved...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 16, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Military suicide rates have reached record highs in recent years, a problem that President Donald Trump’s nominee for under secretary of the Army said Thursday reducing the number of suicides would be one of his top priorities. At his confirmation...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 15, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States has spent $900 billion on the war in Afghanistan, $132 billion for reconstruction of the Afghan government, but much of the reconstruction money was wasted, stolen or failed to address the problems it was meant to fix, the Special...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 15, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of last year’s increase in domestic extremist violence, government officials said Wednesday they need to work more closely with banks to find new ways to root out domestic terrorism. A study conducted by the Anti-Defamation League’s...
