Author: Shannon K. Kingston

The Trump administration’s move to prioritize the resettlement of white South African refugees in the United States even as it has turned away refugees from countries including Afghanistan and Haiti has sparked allegations of hypocrisy and a double standard, as well as questions about who is footing the bill for the new arrivals. On Monday, […]

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin needed to see “certain dynamics” on the battlefield before agreeing to an extended ceasefire, insisting arms deliveries from Ukraine’s allies must stop before there can be a pause in hostilities. “Otherwise, it will be advantage for Ukraine. Ukraine […]

When President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office for the second time, he promised that the moment marked not only the culmination of his own extraordinary political comeback, but a resurgence on the global stage for the United States as a whole. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected […]

Despite negotiations to end the war in Ukraine hitting a wall and a deadly Russian strike on the country’s capital city early Thursday, President Donald Trump remained insistent that talks had made “a lot of progress.” “We’ll see what happens,” the president said during a bilateral meeting with the prime minister of Norway at the […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping plan to dramatically restructure the State Department that would see many of its longstanding offices and hundreds of positions eliminated. “In its current form, the department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition,” […]

After wrapping up what he described as a productive round of talks toward ending the war in Ukraine hosted in Paris, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday laid out a surprising ultimatum for all parties involved, declaring that the U.S. was willing to move on from the negotiations if they didn’t yield results soon. […]

After a devastating missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy appeared to have killed dozens of civilians gathered for Palm Sunday celebrations, President Donald Trump downplayed the incident as a “mistake” — and lashed out with recriminations. He continued to insist that the broader war was started by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that […]

High-level delegations from the United States and Iran are meeting over the weekend in Oman to discuss Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, holding what the White House says will be direct conversations for the first time in seven years. The meeting comes as experts broadly agree that Iran’s breakout time for amassing enough fissile material […]

Ahead of expected talks between the United States and Iran over the weekend, the State Department pushed back on the idea that the discussion would be a negotiation over Tehran’s nuclear program. “This is a meeting that’s happening, right? On Saturday, there’s a meeting. There’s no negotiations,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters on […]

The State Department has moved to squeeze lifesaving foreign aid dramatically for countries around the world, according to several U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The latest cuts include the termination of all remaining U.S. Agency for International Development contracts supporting the delivery of food, water and medicine to populations in Afghanistan and Yemen, the […]