Special Counsel Robert Hur on Tuesday defended his controversial decision to assess the “memory and overall mental state” of President Joe Biden during his investigation into Biden’s retention of classified documents after he was vice president. “My task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed national defense information willfully,” Hur told the House … Read more
The flag of Hong Kong flies from a ferry boat on July 2, 1997, a day after the former British colony returned to Chinese rule. Romeo Gacad | AFP | Getty Images Hong Kong on Friday unveiled a new draft security bill proposing up to life imprisonment for offences such as insurrection and treason following … Read more
Picture Alliance | Getty Images A bipartisan panel of lawmakers unanimously approved a controversial bill on Thursday that could lead to TikTok being blocked in the U.S. if it doesn’t break with Chinese parent ByteDance. If the bill becomes law, TikTok would have a little less than six months to divest from ByteDance, or be … Read more
Missiles on the background of the Chinese flag Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images China is set to increase its defense spending by 7.2% in 2024, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing an official government work report released as part of the country’s annual parliamentary meetings in Beijing. This year’s military budget announcement comes against the … Read more
A flurry of new 2024 presidential election polls have a common thread: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is leading incumbent President Joe Biden in a hypothetical November matchup. In four separate surveys released over the weekend by The New York Times/Siena College, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and CBS News/YouGov, Trump’s lead ranged from two … Read more
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, flanked by U.S. President Joe Biden, speaks during the President’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., February 29, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday rebuked Republican claims that the border can be managed solely through President Joe Biden’s executive action, … Read more
While Canada’s intelligence service decided two scientists working at a high-security Winnipeg virology lab in 2019 were a likely threat to national security, their alleged actions do not appear to have been guided by foreign agents. More than 600 pages of former secret documents, released by the Liberal government Wednesday afternoon, detail the nearly two … Read more
A top trade official at the Department of Homeland Security said in Capitol Hill testimony on Thursday that the Biden administration is concerned about the extent of Chinese manufacturing presence in critical U.S. port operations. During a House hearing that centered on cranes operating at the ports in the United States, 80% of which are … Read more
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing about his failure to disclose his cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalizations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 29, 2024. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Republicans grilled U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at a hearing Thursday about the handling of his January … Read more
Two scientists fired from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg in 2019 had an “extensive relationship” with China that they did not properly disclose to Canadian health officials, according to documents that were finally released over four years later. Health Minister Mark Holland tabled the documents in Parliament on Wednesday after a special ad-hoc committee … Read more
