by Jacob Wendler | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Armed Services raised new worries about China’s threats to U.S. national defense and prospects for possible confrontation over Taiwan in the wake of the public’s attention over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that traversed the...
by Saul Pink | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sparred with Democrats over the Biden administration’s policies regarding the southern U.S. border Tuesday, which GOP lawmakers say has created a “crisis.” The hearing – part of the House GOP’s promise to...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Jan 26, 2023 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – The State Department strategically announced Thursday it was imposing sanctions on more than 40 groups linked to Russia’s mercenary outfit Wagner Group as senators demanded action in a separate meeting. Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for...
by Jacob Wendler | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will send 31 of its powerful M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, capping months of anticipation over whether the West would provide Ukraine with some of its strongest military equipment. “These tanks are...
by Shannon Tyler | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — As Americans reel from the spate of mass killings in recent weeks, the United States Secret Service released a report on Wednesday that aims to shed light on what it calls mass attacks in public spaces. The agency’s National Threat Assessment Center...
by Jacob Wendler | Jan 19, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Department of State announced a new program Thursday that will allow groups of American citizens to sponsor refugees looking to resettle in the United States. The program will significantly restructure the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which in the...
by Jacob Wendler | Jan 17, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed their support for Ukraine in bilateral talks Tuesday. In a joint press conference Tuesday afternoon, Blinken and Cleverly told reporters they discussed Russia’s...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – “One cannot wage war,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said, “without the support of public opinion.” What happens, though, when the public seems readier for war than the U.S. government? Recent polling data presents just that question. Cygnal Polling &...
by Charlotte Varnes | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Living, National Security
WASHINGTON –– When Jen Burch first returned from a tour in Afghanistan nearly a decade ago, she was seriously sick. Her temperature was so high that it was flagged going through the airport en route to Okinawa, her home base at the time. When she arrived, she took a...
by Jenny Huh | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, National Security
WASHINGTON – On August 25, 2021, Aryan Fardeen, along with his wife, mother, and three siblings, boarded a plane in Kabul in an urgent attempt to escape the Taliban. Over the span of three months, they traveled to Kuwait, Germany and Philadelphia, before settling in...
by Maia Pandey and Charlotte Vames | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Embassies, businesses and private residents across the District have hung up flags, balloons and signs in support of Ukraine. Some countries are taking a stance on the war by hanging up the Ukrainian flag alongside their own: European Union members...
by Diego Ramos Bechara | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, National Security
It was about 5 a.m. on a Thursday when the blaring sound of a ringing phone shook Iryna Verona awake. One glance at the screen and she knew she had to prepare herself for the worst. She lifted herself from the bed, and sat on the edge, her feet touching the cold...
