The Laken Riley Act is the first law President Trump signed in his second term, named in honor of a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in February 2024.
Increased U.S. military and political support for Taiwan is now codified in law through several provisions of a new defense policy bill signed into law last week.
The Chinese military is continuing a massive, decades-long arms buildup, including a shift in nuclear force doctrine that increases the danger of a direct attack on the U.S., according to the Pentagon's annual China military power report.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country's eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia's war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized,
China and Russia rebuked the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuela on Tuesday, asserting that Washington is using bullying and intimidation tactics inconsistent with international law.
The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year conflict, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, along with the ...