by Samanta Habashy | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to tackle the fentanyl epidemic and the persistently high opioid-related U.S. death rate as the Trump administration introduced trade measures targeting illegal drug trafficking networks in Mexico, Canada and...
by Jiah Choe | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met on Thursday to discuss China’s influence at home and abroad with committee Chairman James Risch (R-Idaho) calling the country, “the greatest, long-term threat to the United States.” Both lawmakers and experts...
by Zoe Singer | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Experts struggled to provide evidence of China’s operational control in the Panama Canal at a congressional hearing on Tuesday but acknowledged an increase in Chinese infrastructure around the waterway. With Chinese companies currently operating ports on...
by Sarah Lin | Nov 19, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Top U.S. and South Korean national security officials and experts addressed the biggest issues facing their alliance at the ROK-U.S. Strategic Forum Monday, with the recent deployment of North Korean troops to Russia in focus. The speakers discussed the...
by Ananya Chag | Oct 23, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund projected global public debt to exceed $100 trillion by the end of 2024 in its bi-annual Fiscal Monitor report, released Wednesday at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. “Public debt may be worse than it...
