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...
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...
