STATE DEPARTMENT — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Taiwan’s envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Lin Hsin-I, on Thursday ahead of the bloc’s Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Lima, Peru. The discussion centered on economic cooperation, as Blinken highlighted in a social media post. “Met with Lin Hsin-i in Lima. We…
A viral post shared on Facebook claims Kroger, Food Lion, and Publix have announced a 4% price cut following the 2024 presidential election. Screenshot captured via Facebook Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from the satirical “America – Love It Or Leave It” Facebook page. Fact Check: Trump met with President Joe…
Photo courtesy of Elise Stefanik, via Facebook New York’s 21st District Congresswoman and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik has been called to serve in President Trump’s Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and became the most senior woman in House Republican leadership. According…
“Have you ever started a new job, looked at your manager, and thought, ‘How the actual hell? How did this clown get this position?’” I’ve asked myself this countless times over the years, baffled by who I’m being told to respect solely because of their title or paycheck. In today’s age of “authenticity” and deepening…
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with leaders of South Korea and Japan Friday to come up with a “coordinated” response to the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops to help Moscow’s war against Ukraine and on Pyongyang’s nuclear threat more broadly, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru.…
Elyse Ellingsworth/The Hoya | Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, which promotes dialogue on Catholic social thought as well as national and global issues, hosted a Nov. 12 webinar focusing on how religious values and communities influenced the results and what they mean for a divided United States. Journalists examined different…
US President-elect Donald Trump is turning to an old ally to lead the CIA and an outsider some see as a potential disruptor to oversee American intelligence agencies when his second term begins in January. VOA National Security Correspondent Jeff Seldin has more.This post was originally published on here
washington — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was among the first foreign leaders to congratulate U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on his early November election victory. President Joe Biden has not hosted Erdogan at the White House though the two have met on sidelines of international summits and spoken by phone. Speaking to journalists accompanying his…
Taipei, Taiwan — China is ramping up efforts to smooth ties with the European Union in the wake of the U.S. elections, with a top Chinese official and state media maintaining that improved ties are in the interest of both Brussels and Beijing. As countries worldwide try to anticipate what President-elect Donald Trump’s victory might…
“Since Plato’s Republic 2,300 years ago, philosophers have understood the process by which demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule. The process is straightforward, and we have now just watched it play out.” — Jason Stanley, ‘The End of US Democracy Was All Too Predictable’.…