POLITICS

What is the Golden Dome? Here’s what to know about Trump’s plan.

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President Trump’s missile defense project, called the “Golden Dome for America,” aims to protect the U.S. from foreign threats. But it has been criticized by China as threatening to increase the risks of militarizing space and a global arms race. The president on Tuesday said his administration had “selected an architecture” for the “state-of-the-art system,”

On Cuba’s Independence Day, Rubio and US Lawmakers Demand End to Communist Rule

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Cuban American leaders have called for the release of political prisoners and the fall of communist rule. A group of Cuban American members of Congress and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio have called for Cuba’s freedom and the release of more than 1,000 political prisoners as part of a commemoration of the archipelago’s Independence

New US Ambassador to Mexico, a Former CIA Official, Welcomed in Mexico’s National Palace

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The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson—a former CIA official for more than 20 years and former Green Beret in the U.S. Army Special Forces—arrived in Mexico this week for his first meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Johnson, who was President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from 2019 to 2021, presented

Lawmakers Call Out US Banks for Backing Blacklisted Chinese Battery Maker

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In January, the Department of Defense designated several companies, including CATL, as Chinese military companies. Lawmakers with the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on May 20 criticized American banks for backing a blacklisted Chinese battery maker, suggesting legislation was needed to explicitly prohibit this. China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) went public