Tag: Antony Blinken
Bipartisan congressional caucus forms to address fentanyl crisis
Labeling the smuggling of illicit fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico "a national crisis," a group of lawmakers has formed a bipartisan...
U.S. says China balloon could collect intelligence signals
The China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance...
U.S. sending Patriots to Ukraine under $1.85B aid package
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will provide $1.85 billion in military aid to Ukraine, rolling out funding for a Patriot...
WNBA star Brittney Griner freed in swap for Russian arms dealer...
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer...
Ukrainian diplomat seeks aid in speech to Arizona lawmakers
A Ukrainian diplomat pleaded for the United States to send weapons to his beleaguered nation in a speech to the Arizona Legislature...
Extradition bid certified for man accused in Iraq killings
A judge has certified the Iraqi government’s extradition request for a Phoenix driving school owner on charges that he participated in the...
White House: Intel shows Vladimir Putin misled by advisers on Ukraine
U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine, according to...
Joe Biden says remark on Vladimir Putin’s power was about ‘moral...
President Joe Biden said Monday that he would make “no apologies” and wasn’t “walking anything back” after his weekend comment that Russian...
Joe Biden finds no respite at home after returning from Europe
With the last nine unscripted words of an impassioned speech about Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, President Joe Biden created a troubling distraction,...
Madeleine Albright, 1st female U.S. secretary of state, dies
Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state...