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Select Committee on the CCP: 'Foreign adversaries should not be allowed to censor Americans’ speech'
The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party reached out to TikTok CEO Show Zi Chew May 10, expressing deep unease over the platform's recent acts of censorship.
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Blinken: Religious freedoms 'vital to stable, secure societies'
The U.S. Department of State's Office of International Religious Freedom released to Congress last week its annual report on the status of religious freedoms around the world.
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Blinken: 'We remain committed to supporting Nigerian aspirations to strengthen democracy'
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on certain Nigerians who are alleged to have interfered with democratic elections in Nigeria earlier this year.
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Blinken: The U.S. 'to improve migration management' with end of Title 42
With the May 11 end of Title 42, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and State are focusing on humane border management.
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Gallagher: Ensure supply chains are clean 'or get out of countries like China implicated in forced labor"
Republican and Democratic representatives issued letters demanding Nike, Adidas, Shein and Temu ensure their supply chains are free from forced labor or exit countries like China.
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Chinese-born virologist: 'Everything is controlled by the CCP'; they 'established a massive network' of sending students to the U.S.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese-born virologist, spoke with Ed Haugland on the The National Security Hour podcast on America Out Loud about the Chinese Communist Party's influence on American education.
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Stefanik: 'DJI drones pose the national security threat of TikTok, but with wings'
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Congressman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., recently proposed a new legislation, which seeks to add a Chinese drone manufacturer to the Federal Communications Commission Covered List over national security fears.
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Dunn: ‘We must continue to investigate the ties the CCP has to the U.S. military’
Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, held a hearing May 11 to discuss the current state of U.S. shipbuilding capabilities in comparison to China.
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Rubio on Wuhan lab and COVID-19: 'Beijing hid the truth'
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has released a new report on the origins of the COV-19 pandemic, citing increasing evidence that it started by a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
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Blinken: 'Our thoughts are with the people of Serbia'
A recent school shooting in Serbia led to the death nine people.
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Luetkemeyer: 'I introduced a bill to hold TikTok accountable'
Missouri Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer recently introduced legislation to hold TikTok accountable amid security concerns.
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Project HOPE and their work in Haiti
Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian aid organization.
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Murray: 'We need to make sure that we invest in America across the board'
A free and open Indo-Pacific region is a central objective of U.S. foreign policy, which is reflected in President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget which calls for major expenditures in the region.
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Blinken: U.S., Turkey 'counter the financing of terrorist groups that perpetuate violence'
The United States and Turkey are working together to combat terrorist financing in the region, with the U.S. imposing sanctions on two financial facilitators for designated terrorist groups.
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U.N. human rights official renews call for global assistance in Haiti
The United Nations' high commissioner on human rights has reiterated his call for the international community to intervene in Haiti to end the spiraling rise of gang violence in the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.
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CSIS panelists discuss China's views on how it would withstand economic sanctions
China's evaluation of the effects economic sanctions have had on Russia and its own strategies should it be the target of broad-based sanctions was discussed recently by experts on the subject.
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Biden: 'The violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy'
President Joe Biden issued an executive order authorizing sanctions in response to the ongoing violence in Sudan.
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Blinken: 'I designated three former Colombian officials'
The United States government has designated three former Colombian officials and their family members for their involvement in human rights violations during Colombia's decades-long internal armed conflict.
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DeSantis on bill signing: 'the Chinese Communist party is the United States’ greatest geopolitical threat'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed legislation aimed at countering the negative impact of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the state.
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Biden sends armed forces to border, authorizes armed forces to address drug trafficking: ‘They're there to free up the border agents that need to be on the border’
In recent weeks, as Title 42 ended, President Biden signed an executive order to authorize the U.S. armed forces to address international drug trafficking and sent troops down to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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