Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They said if this passes, it will be a massive step forward in combating the fentanyl crisis which killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2022. “We give our government additional tools to deal with them,…

This past February, near the one-year milestone of the war in Ukraine, President Biden announced another $460 million in U.S. aid for the country and Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about the way the “international community has come together.” But the percentage of Americans who favor sending weapons to Ukraine has declined from 60%…

South Korea announced it will provide compensation to victims who were forced to work while the country was under Japanese rule. It’s an attempt to heal an old wound that goes back more than 100 years.   Japan ruled the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. Throughout that time, hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced…

CIA Director Bill Burns said Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s army to be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027 at the latest. But that doesn’t mean military conflict is inevitable.  “We do know, as has been made public, that President Xi has instructed the PLA, the Chinese military leadership, to be ready…

President Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv just days before the one-year anniversary of the start of the Ukraine War was designed to send a clear message to Russia that the U.S. remains firmly in Ukraine’s corner. The visit may have also been a message to China. The U.S. is pushing to isolate Russia on a…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined Russian forces and officials have committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine. This official declaration could one day help international bodies, like the International Criminal Court, prosecute Russian war criminals. Blinken said Russian forces have committed execution-style killings, rape, and torture through beatings, electrocution, and other means. In addition,…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with Turkey’s president Monday. The meeting comes after Blinken toured areas that are now unrecognizable in the aftermath of the earthquakes. U.S. to send $100 million in aid to Turkey Blinken said the U.S. is sending an additional $100 million in disaster assistance to its NATO ally. Blinken…

The U.S. government’s story on the Chinese spy balloon is changing again. This week, the Pentagon revealed it was tracking the suspected Chinese spy balloon from its launch site along China’s south coast, and was monitoring it days before it crossed into U.S. airspace near Alaska. U.S. officials watched the Chinese spy balloon lift off…

There have now been four flying objects shot down by the U.S. military in just over a week, with the first one identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon outfitted with sensors used for intelligence gathering. Though Beijing continues to deny it was a spy vessel, the incident has further strained its ties with Washington and…

The Chinese surveillance balloon is still over the center of the United States flying at 60,000 feet and moving east. It was first spotted over Montana, home of Malmstrom Air Force Base which has a nuclear missile silo field. The Pentagon said the balloon does not pose a physical or military threat to people on…