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Marco Rubio just put critical minerals on the same diplomatic footing as trade and security. With every US embassy now tasked on mineral supply chains and 36+ countries at the Critical Minerals…
Marco Rubio has drawn a sharp red line on Gaza: no demilitarisation of Hamas, no reconstruction money. Pitching an international…
Trump's choice of Bill Pulte — a figure with no national security, military or law enforcement background — to temporarily run…
Rubio's pitch to Congress reframes US foreign aid as a results-led instrument of national interest, not a spending metric. With…
A Senate hearing turned into a constitutional flashpoint as DHS chief Markwayne Mullin refused to give Democrats a clean…
A single stalled approval at DHS could cost New England College up to 2,000 international graduate students by July 1 — a stark…
A $100,000 H-1B surcharge designed to deter Silicon Valley body-shopping is now squeezing rural American hospitals that depend on…
A bipartisan US House bill is asking the State Department to officially decide whether China's conduct in Tibet amounts to…
The US Forest Service is heading into 2026 with its biggest firefighting bench in years — over 11,000 hires, a 12-year-high…
