Senate Republicans debate piecemeal funding bills during shutdown as Sen. Josh Hawley's food stamp extension faces resistance from party leadership and White House.

U.S. Navy targets cocaine smugglers in Caribbean waters as drug cartels shift tactics from sea routes to aircraft. Maritime counter-narcotics campaign forces traffickers to adapt.

Despite the continued suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, the State Department appears to have begun a quiet effort to move a limited number of Afghans with USRAP cases out of Pakistan. Many Afghan USRAP applicants fled to Pakistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, both to remain safe amid the Taliban’s reprisal campaign and because […]

President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia and expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea on Thursday will be pivotal. While trade and rare-earth exports will dominate headlines, the deeper contest is ideological: democracy versus authoritarianism, conscience versus control. At the center of this struggle is Taiwan, the flashpoint […]