Update: Sen. Paul blocked the bill on Tuesday night (watch his floor speech here) Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to block a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok, The Hill reported Wednesday. Hawley's bill, the No...
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's cabinet approved a decision for Riyadh to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian security and economic bloc that was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, and several Central Asian countries. According to Saudi state...
The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was used for the invasion of Iraq and the 1991 AUMF that was passed for the Gulf War. The bill passed in a vote of 66-30 and now heads to the House. Repealing the...
China on Wednesday warned that it would respond if Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while she visits the US as part of a trip to Central America. Tsai departed for her trip to Guatemala and Belize, two countries that...
Moscow announced that it downed for the first time a longer-range rocket that the US has provided to Ukrainian forces. The Russian Defense Ministry said it downed a Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), a munition made by Boeing that can hit targets up to 94...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Associated Press on Wednesday that if the Donbas city of Bakhmut falls to Russia, he would be pressured to "compromise" with Moscow. "Our society will feel tired" if the Russians win in Bakhmut, Zelensky said. "Our...
The Senate on Tuesday night voted down an amendment to create a special inspector general to oversee the over $113 billion that the US has authorized to spend on the war in Ukraine. The amendment, which was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), failed in a vote of...
A bill introduced in the Senate designed to ban the video-sharing app TikTok would give the Biden administration sweeping authorities to crack down on transactions between people in the US and countries deemed "foreign adversaries" related to information and...
The deputy foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Russia, and Iran will meet in Moscow in April as part of an effort to normalize ties between Damascus and Ankara, Reuters reported on Tuesday. An unnamed senior Turkish official told Reuters that the meeting will be held...
Ukrainian police in Kyiv are preparing to evict Orthodox priests who are refusing to leave a historic monastery complex known as the Pechersk Lavra or the Monastery of the Caves. The effort is part of a broad crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) launched...
