A Walmart supercenter in downtown Xiamen, Fujian Province, China LightRocket via Getty Images Scarcely reported by mainstream press outlets, at the very end of 2022 President Biden signed into law the...
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Air Force’s aging AWACS stirs questions of airborne-battle readiness
As the recent Chinese spy balloon encounter showed, keeping the skies safe is a tough job. For decades the U.S. Air Force has relied on the E-3 Sentry, and the most recent version, the E-3G, has been ...
Biden Administration May Cut Off Huawei From U.S. Suppliers. Here’s The Backstory
Topline The Biden Administration is in serious talks to cut off Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from its U.S. suppliers, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, as a broader mea...
Here are the three big issues facing Ukraine as a tough winter approaches
Winter is on the way, and in war-torn Ukraine the fight against Russia appears far from over. Moscow continues to target Ukrainian power plants and stations. Grain shipments out of Ukraine have been i...
DOJ Charges Alleged Chinese Intelligence Officers With Trying To Interfere With Huawei Prosecution
Topline The Justice Department announced charges Monday against 13 people allegedly involved in attempts by the Chinese government to influence U.S. operations, including two Chinese nationals who wer...
U.S. defense industry faces surging demand and a supply chain crunch
The war in Ukraine and rising tensions over Taiwan have caused demand for high-tech, American-made weapons to surge. And with the ongoing supply chain crunch and inflation continuing to rise, military...
Biden’s CFIUS Has Become Tougher In The Latter Half Of His First Term
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks aboard the Battleship USS Iowa Museum at the Port of Los … [+] Angeles Getty Images The August 2022 publication of the annual report on the 2021 activit...
Trump PAC paid lawyers almost $1 million amid Georgia, New York probes
Former President Donald Trump‘s political action committee, Save America, paid nearly $1 million to civil and criminal defense attorneys in July alone as investigations into him and the Trump Or...
Alibaba’s shares fall after unconfirmed rumors link Jack Ma to a probe
Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou, China. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares were about 1% lower Tuesday — after earlier falling more than 9% —following unconf...
U.S. to end anti-satellite ASAT testing; calls for global agreement
A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launches from the U.S. Navy’s USS Lake Erie at a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite on Feb. 20, 2008 as an anti-satellite weapons U.S. Departmen...
Landlord of men accused of impersonating DHS agents won unpaid rent judgment
Arian Taherzadeh seen in photos submitted in a D.O.J. affidavit. Courtesy: D.O.J The landlord of two Washington, D.C., men charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents won a judgm...
Olaf Scholz says West must keep Russia guessing on sanctions
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday rejected calls from Ukraine’s president to sanction Russia now, saying that Moscow should not be sure “exactly” how the West will respond to...
FAA briefly grounded planes in Western U.S. as precaution
A United Airlines Holdings Inc. Boeing 777-200 aircraft on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. David Paul Morris | B...