by Linus Hoeller | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Amid rising tensions and unprecedented levels of Chinese incursions into Taiwan’s airspace, the island’s independence could be at stake if Taipei and Washington are not able to find a security strategy that stretches beyond military support to include...
by Mikayla Denault | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — It has been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, and emergency communications have come a long way since the disaster. The House Committee on Homeland Security held an Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Subcommittee meeting Thursday to...
by Linus Hoeller and Dan Hu | Oct 5, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON – U.S. Capitol Police deployed their equivalent of a SWAT team on Tuesday because of a suspicious vehicle parked outside the front entrance of the Supreme Court, eventually removing a Michigan man and arresting him, the same man who had made “concerning...
by Zinya Salfiti | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Top defense experts said al-Qaida and the jihadist movement are big beneficiaries of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan at a Senate hearing Thursday, part of a series of congressional hearings aimed at understanding how the 20-year, $2 trillion war...
by Linus Hoeller | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –Biden’s national strategy for countering domestic terrorism will require federal agencies to develop new tools that focus on internal threats rather than foreign terrorists and bring up divisive issues of information sharing among law enforcement, the...
by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Almost a month after the U.S.’s rapid evacuation from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie, testified Tuesday on Capitol...
by Megan Lebowitz | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — “That’s when I said to Mom, ‘I don’t want to die.’” Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody remembered her pleas to her mother as they stepped off a train and walked toward Gestapo in Jaroslaw, Poland. The jig was up — a German discovered they were...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Gabriella Karin was eight the first time she heard Nazi propaganda. It was the day after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, in Europe. Within four years, officials announced the plan to declare her home country “judenrein” — cleansed of Jews....
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, National Security
Ending an endless conflict: efforts beyond the White House to bring peace to Israel and Palestine from Medill Washington on Vimeo. WASHINGTON – In the Israeli settlement of Shiloh, located where the ancient Biblical city of the same name is rumored to have been...
by Martha Castro | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON— Former government terrorism experts say stricter oversight of federal agencies is needed to ensure anti-terrorism surveillance and monitoring don’t violate people’s privacy and civil liberties in response to a Department of Homeland Security report...
by Martha Castro | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON—While some Democrats in Congress have criticized the Trump administration’s program requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for a ruling on their claims, some experts say lawmakers should attempt to block funds for the program and require more oversight....
by Khadija Islow | Feb 29, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON– Secretary of State Mike Pompeo clashed with members of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs on Friday over the reasons given for killing Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and President Donald Trump’s handling of the spread of the coronavirus. After...
