New York is soliciting grant applications for a $15 million program designed to help residents of the state cope with “collective trauma,” including the purported pain brought on by the “structural inequalities and disparities” experienced by people of color and immigrants, state documents show. The program, titled “Promoting Wellness and Healing in Communities,” tasks applicants […]

The top U.S. counterterrorism official testified on Thursday that the federal government is aware of 18,000 people on the FBI terrorism watch list who were brought into the country during the Biden administration’s botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee that the center […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo this month advising federal agents to expand operations targeting alleged domestic terrorists.  The Justice Department’s memo, dated Dec. 4, appeared to mark a significant extension of the government’s blueprint to squelch suspected domestic terrorism, as well as broadening the scope of people who could be detained under the […]

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte issued a stern warning to the organization’s allied nations on Thursday, suggesting they stand as “Russia’s next target” after Ukraine. Rutte delivered the sobering message that NATO countries are “already in harm’s way” during a keynote address at a Berlin event hosted by the Munich Security Conference. He equated Ukraine’s […]