US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington was close to reaching a trade agreement with Mexico and that negotiations with Canada were also progressing, as the three North American countries
The following editorial, adapted from The Washington Post, discusses the ongoing struggles to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility as President Joe Biden’s term comes to a close. Despite efforts to reduce
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As Donald Trump gears up for his second presidential inauguration on Monday, the event has evolved into one of the most highly anticipated political gatherings in Washington, with an impressive guest list
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Jeff Bezos’s space exploration company, Blue Origin, made a historic leap into the orbital space launch industry on Thursday with the successful test flight of its New Glenn rocket. The 30-storey rocket
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Ottawa has issued a stern warning that it will impose “tit-for-tat” tariffs on American goods such as steel and orange juice if US President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to
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Kim Jong Un has been using North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as a critical “insurance policy” to ensure his hold on power, according to Marco Rubio, who is Donald Trump’s nominee for
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In a G-Zero world, where no one country or group of countries is willing and able to provide global leadership, the law of the jungle prevails. And the law of the jungle says the
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The United States has legally imported close to 3 billion wild plants and animals over the past 22 years, making it one of the largest global hubs for wildlife trade, according to
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The United States budget deficit reached an unprecedented $711 billion in the first three months of the fiscal year, marking a significant rise in the nation’s fiscal imbalance, according to data released
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In a significant move hailed as a step toward improving U.S.-Cuba relations, the Biden administration has removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The decision, announced just days before
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In John Updike’s 1992 novel Memories of the Ford Administration, the historian non-hero of the story just can’t finish writing his biography of James Buchanan because the fifteenth president of the United States
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A recent essay published in The Atlantic uncovers the explosive rise of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a powerful and controversial Christian movement that is actively reshaping American politics and society. With
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US President-elect Donald Trump has revealed plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly after his inauguration on January 20. In an interview with Newsmax on Monday, Trump stated that the
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In a dramatic turn of events, Chinese social media app RedNote has surged to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store’s free downloads chart as the specter of a TikTok ban
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Recently declassified MI5 files have unveiled how British officials worked to maintain the UK-US “special relationship” during the Cold War by appeasing J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s long-serving director. As reported by
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Back in 2021, I wrote a blog post for American Purpose on “Silvio Berlusconi and the Decline of Western Civilization.” In it I argued that when historians 50 or 100 years from now investigate
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