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US Olympian Alysa Liu, Father Targeted in Chinese Spy Case

https://ift.tt/3w6JptM. Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu – a former political refugee – were among those targeted in a spying...

St. Patrick’s Day Parades in US Turn Pandemic Blues Irish Green

https://ift.tt/aexLC39. Patrick's Day celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus, including the nation's largest in New York City, in a sign...

Judge Rules in Favor of Extraditing Former Honduran Leader to US

https://ift.tt/QPUKjgC judge in Honduras has granted a U.S. request to extradite former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to face drug trafficking and weapons charges. The...

Thousands of migrants found crossing Channel on small boats to reach UK

More than 900 people were caught in small boats crossing the station on Tuesday in what is thought to be the largest number of...

Biden Announces $800M in Security Aid for Ukraine

https://ift.tt/3w6JptM. President Joe Biden announced $800 million in new security assistance to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion, in addition to the...

Ukrainian Teenager Watches Zelenskyy Appeal to US Lawmakers

https://ift.tt/cQIb9g3 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was pleading for more military aid in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, a Ukrainian high school...

Visual Explainer: Russian Disinformation 

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, the groundwork had already begun — online. Russian disinformation is a key part of what many are calling a hybrid...

US Works to ‘Seize and Freeze’ Wealth of Russian Oligarchs

https://ift.tt/uDIO6jT tough sanctions against Russian oligarchs over the war in Ukraine was step one. Now the U.S. and its allies are creating new teams to...

US Begins Inflation Fight With Key Rate Hike; More to Come

https://ift.tt/nf80CIF U.S. Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort Wednesday to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate...

FCC Revokes US Authorization of Pacific Networks Chinese Telecom Firm

https://ift.tt/nf80CIF U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday voted to revoke the authorization for Chinese telecom Pacific Networks and its wholly owned subsidiary ComNet...

Zelenskyy Pleads With US Congress for No-Fly Zone, Military Aid

https://ift.tt/WApVac0 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, thanking President Joe Biden and the U.S. for their support while calling for more...

US Charges 5 Chinese Nationals With Harassing Chinese in US Critical of Beijing

https://ift.tt/3w6JptM. authorities announced charges Wednesday against five people who were allegedly working for the Chinese secret police to spy on and harass Chinese nationals...

US-Pakistan Relations Ebb After Afghanistan Withdrawal

https://ift.tt/nf80CIF last time U.S.-Pakistan relations turned cold was in the early 1990s, after Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the U.S. no longer needed...

State Department Recap: March 9-16, 2022

https://ift.tt/gxea1Ml a look at what U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top diplomats have been doing this week: US-Russia-Ukraine The United States continues to...

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