Rep. Michael McCaul, the outgoing House Foreign Affairs chairman, led the committee during a “historic time,” but he’s happy to leave the gavel to a successor so he can pursue additional endeavors. During his tenure, the international community had more than its share of monumental events. There was the committee’s Afghanistan withdrawal investigation, then there […]
Similarly to 2023, 2024 proved to be one of the most unpredictable years in recent history, with developments completely upending the global order. The largest war in Europe since World War II continued in Ukraine for the third year. At the same time, a series of escalations between Israel and the so-called “Axis of Resistance” […]
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, exiled head of Tibet, and international figurehead of Tibetan Buddhism, is turning 90 next year. The widely revered spiritual leader takes fewer and fewer interviews and reports having less energy for public appearances due to his advanced age. When he dies, Tibetan Buddhists around the world will […]
Historic amounts of money were raised during the 2024 presidential election cycle. Many billionaires threw money at the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump. Trump now has tech titan billionaires, who are frequently Democratic donors, courting him at Mar-a-Lago as they brace for a new era in America under a second […]
Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel is leaving the Democratic Party, citing her problems with the party’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war and arguing Democrats are out of touch with the average person. Cassel, who first assumed office in 2022, shared a letter to X detailing her decision to join the Republican Party. “I have been […]
President-elect Donald Trump is calling on the Supreme Court to delay the deadline for TikTok’s owner to have to sell the company or else face a ban in the United States. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments from TikTok’s attorneys opposing the ban on Jan. 10, but Trump’s nominee for solicitor general, […]
The National Archives and Records Administration has released photos of then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting his son Hunter’s Chinese clients as part of a protracted records request fight. The images are the first photographic evidence of the president meeting the executives from BHR Partners, a Chinese-based private equity firm that Hunter Biden and two other […]
A surge of migrants entering the country and the United States’s housing affordability problem has fueled the country’s highest number of homeless people on record in 2024. A report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed more than 770,000 people experienced homelessness on a night in January 2024, an 18% increase from 2023 […]
The president of Panama is pushing back on rhetoric from President-elect Donald Trump after days of social media posts threatening to take back control of the Panama Canal. Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino spoke at a press conference Thursday in which he dismissed various assertions made by the president-elect about the canal, including the accusation […]
United Auto Workers union head Shawn Fain has experienced a series of misfortunes since his gamble to go all-in with Vice President Kamala Harris failed. Fain distinguished himself as one of the most vocal labor leaders for Harris, campaigning for the Democratic candidate this year. His gamble came as President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican […]
