• US moves forward on TikTok ban

    US President Joe Biden signed legislation that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok if parent company ByteDance doesn’t agree to sell its US assets over a nine-month time span.

  • Throw us a bone, Congress, and lay off the stock trough

    This isn’t shaping up to be a great year for Congress — specifically, the House of Representatives, and, still more specifically, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). After the calamitously bruising battle to send more magic fedbux off to support wars deemed in America’s interest, which saw the speaker side with Democrats over outraged members of his own party, the nation’s legislature plumbed new depths of dissatisfaction among millions of Americans. For many voting citizens, the outrage...

  • Biden tells Zelensky US will move quickly

    Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Biden to Zelensky: US will ‘quickly provide’ security package President Biden spoke Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to assure him the United States will provide more aid as soon as the Senate passes the national security

  • N. Korea denounces US envoy's Asia trip

    North Korea slammed on Friday United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield's tour across South Korea and Japan, as per KCNA.Kim Son-gyong, North Korea's vice foreign minister

  • Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties?

    Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties? Authored by James Durso via ResponsibleStatecraft.org, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is in Washington next week with both sides hoping to expand their economic relationship Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was allied with al-Qaida, the terror group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. created an occupation...

  • US Again Moves to Ban TikTok Via New Bill; What Does This Mean?

    NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The US House of Representatives has once again passed a new legislation that may lead to a ban on Chinese short video making platform TikTok in the country. In March, the House voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban […]

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    "Sanctions On Our Soldiers Is A Red Line": Israel Hits Out At US Move

    Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced a reported move by US to issue sanctions against the Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

  • Russia throws a tantrum over US aid to Ukraine and asset confiscation

    Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has claimed that the US aid to Ukraine approved by the House of Representatives “will kill more Ukrainians” and enrich the United States. He also warned that the United States “will have to answer for the confiscation of frozen assets of the Russian Federation”.

  • US envoy: UNSC vote no guarantee for two-state solution

    United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield (pictured) emphasized that while the US supports the idea of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a UN Secu

  • Biden administration moves to make conservation an equal to industry on US lands

    By MATTHEW BROWN (Associated Press) BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties. Officials pushed past strong opposition from private industry and Republican governors to […]

  • US man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple

    Sean Patrick Palmer, of Oklahoma, arrested after explosive device found last week near porch of Satanic Temple in MassachusettsAn Oklahoma man was arrested on Thursday morning in last week’s bombing attempt of a Satanic Temple in Massachusetts.Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Oklahoma, was arrested on charges of “using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce”, the United States’ attorney office for the district of Massachusetts said in a statement....

  • US envoy says full UN membership won't help Palestinians with statehood

    US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield says, 'We do not see that doing a resolution in the Security Council will necessarily get us to a place where we can find a two-state solution moving forward'