Foreign policy

Alaska

Biden, in Alaska speech commemorating Sept. 11 attacks, urges unity and defense of democracy ⋆ Michigan Advance | #alaska | #politics

Twenty-two years after Al-Qaeda terrorists staged coordinated attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, there is a threat to U.S. democracy coming from closer to home, President Joe Biden said in a memorial speech in Anchorage. “Terrorism, including political and ideological violence, is the opposite of all we stand for as a nation that settles our […]

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Alaska

Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state and presidential adviser, dead at 100 | #alaska | #politics

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford administrations who was said to be one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy framers in postwar United States, has died. He was 100. The news was confirmed by Kissinger’s consulting company on Wednesday night. “Dr. Henry Kissinger, a respected American […]

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Alabama

Campaign Roundup: Election Day Is One Year Away | #elections | #alabama

Sunday marks one year until Election Day in the United States. So it is time to resume TWE’s quadrennial roundup of foreign policy issues making news on the campaign trail. Assuming my schedule cooperates, I will be back each Friday with a new installment. To kick things off, here are three general points to keep […]

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Alabama

Campaign Roundup: Election Day Is One Year Away | #elections | #alabama

Sunday marks one year until Election Day in the United States. So it is time to resume TWE’s quadrennial roundup of foreign policy issues making news on the campaign trail. Assuming my schedule cooperates, I will be back each Friday with a new installment. To kick things off, here are three general points to keep […]

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Alabama

Lawmakers visit Taiwan as Biden seeks China detente | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

House Armed Services Committee chairman Mike Rogers landed in Taiwan on Tuesday with a delegation of lawmakers. Rogers’ visit to Taipei comes as the Biden administration takes several steps aimed at stabilizing the bilateral relationship with China. Anti-China sentiment is far more visible on Capitol Hill than it is in the White House, where trade […]

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Alabama

15 GOP states ask court to keep Trump-era immigration rule Title 42 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Asylum-seeking migrants from Colombia board a Customs and Border Patrol transport van after crossing the Rio Grande, in Del Rio, Texas, May 22, 2022. Marco Bello | Reuters Fifteen Republican states on Monday night asked a federal judge to keep a Covid-era policy in place that allowed authorities to severely restrict asylum-seekers from crossing the border into […]

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Alaska

Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine | #alaska | #politics

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ukrainian, Russian and Belarussian activists A woman holds Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov’s 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York, on June 20, 2022. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Activists and organizations from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in […]

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