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...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 16, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs to modernize its aging nuclear energy system, the chairman of a Senate energy appropriations subcommittee said, and experts answered that 3-D printing is the answer to advanced, less expensive nuclear reactors. Tennessee Sen. Lamar...
by Cameron Peters and Heena Srivastava | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration should condemn Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for orchestrating the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a group of congressmen and the publisher of The Washington Post said Thursday, 100 days...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 17, 2018 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration needs to work with its allies in the Middle East to counter terrorist networks supported and funded by Iran that pose a threat to the U.S., a senior scholar from the Center for American Progress told a House Homeland Security...
by Erica Snow | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security needs to work hard to ensure there is no outside interference in the November midterm elections, while lambasting Russian interference in the 2016...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that he will oppose the nominations of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State and Gina Haspel to CIA Director, saying he could not vote for nominees that still support the Iraq War or have ties to enhanced interrogation. The...
by Eric Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | National Security, Politics
ARLINGTON, VA – Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort pled not guilty on Thursday to charges of tax and bank fraud as part of the Russia investigation. The charges were the latest brought by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in the wide-ranging probe of possible...
