by Justin Askenazy | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – U.S. counterterrorism officials warned lawmakers Wednesday that ISIS and Al-Qaeda remain a threat to national security despite efforts to disrupt their networks. “ISIS and Al-Qaeda are degraded but still viable,” said Maj. Gen. Jim Hecker, Vice Director...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs to withhold foreign assistance to Guatemala and apply sanctions, Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif, said Wednesday, in reaction to the dismissal of an anti-corruption United Nations commission from that country. Torres plans to reintroduce a bill...
by Cameron Peters | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A joint resolution to quickly end U.S. support for the Saudi-backed forces at war in Yemen was reintroduced on Wednesday after failing to receive a vote in the Republican-controlled House last year. The bill would direct the president to remove U.S. armed...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Representatives from Venezuela’s interim government Wednesday advocated for greater international support for self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó and greater pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to step down. Guaidó’s representative to the United...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee hammered Pentagon officials Tuesday on the cost of having nearly 6,000 troops on the US-Mexico border, both in terms of dollars spent and training activities that are disrupted by irregular deployment...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday provided further evidence of how President Donald Trump is often at odds with his intelligence leaders, saying ISIS remains a threat, North Korea is unlikely to give...
by Cameron Peters | Jan 24, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unannounced appearance at an Organization of American States Permanent Council special meeting Thursday to urge the group to unequivocally recognize Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Venezuelan...
by Samantha Handler | Jan 24, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – On day 34 of the partial government shutdown, former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday it may take months or even years to recover from the damage done to homeland security by the shutdown. “We are in the midst of a security crisis,and...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – A Florida congressman Wednesday said he is renewing his fight to protect undocumented spouses of active-duty military and veterans from deportation. Democrat Darren Soto’s bill to mandate that marriage to a member or veteran of the armed forces be a...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Students and faculty of the nation’s military educational institutions generally have been unaffected by the partial government shutdown because the Defense Department is funded, but the at least two major military schools are taking big hits. At the...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to go into effectwhile the case plays out in lower courts. In voting five-four to reverse a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to block...
by Cameron Peters | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump heralded a new era in U.S. missile defense on Thursday, saying space-based missile defenses will be built to protect against adversaries’ hypersonic and cruise missiles. The need for a new missile defense strategy due to the threat...
