Fanfare, Golf and Boos Have Marked July Fourth for Us Presidents. Zachary Taylor’s Was the Worst
Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Is Making a Long-Awaited Trip to China This Week
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Beijing Thursday as part of an ongoing Biden administration effort to thaw U.S.-China relations, a senior Treasury official said...
“Evidence of collusion”: report names 18 MEPs & former MEPs “connected” with activities supporting convicted fraudster Mukhtar Ablyazov
The recent ‘Qatargate’ scandal in the European Parliament, which has seen MEPs & at least one former former MEP languishing in Belgian jail cells,...
Zelenskyy: Russia will lose the war if Ukraine’s counteroffensive succeeds
News from the front lines was “generally positive, but it’s very difficult,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview Thursday. Russia is putting up...
Kazakhstan’s progress faces many headwinds; the West should not be one of them
The war in the Ukraine created two main opposing camps of countries. An Alliance of Democracies on one side and a Group of Authoritarian....
Does AUKUS Undercut Australia’s Defense Sovereignty?
The AUKUS submarine announcement earlier this month reignited a long-running debate about how to best preserve Australia’s sovereignty. The announcement addressed some key concerns....
China Moves Warships Near Taiwan
It wasn’t a state visit. But the meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai and the Speaker of the US House of Representatives caused angry reactions in...
Wagner Boss Prigozhin Admits Losses
Yevgeny Prigozhin lets himself be filmed in a cemetery where Wagner fighters are buried. He is calm about the fact that many of his mercenaries...
Sweden Extradites Turkish Citizen
Turkey is still blocking Sweden’s accession to NATO. One point of contention: Ankara is demanding the extradition of people whom Turkey accuses of criminal offenses. ...
New US Military Aid to Ukraine
The details of a new military aid to Ukraine worth 2.6 billion dollars have been revealed by the United States. Includes ammunition for partial...