Tag: USA

(USA) Trump admin enlists private firm to review some Covid-19 tests (Politico)

The decision cuts scientists at the Food and Drug Administration out of the process. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/coronavirus-trump-covid-tests-private-firm-459762 By DAVID LIM

(USA) Who is ‘essential’? Food and farm workers left in limbo in vaccine priorities (Politico)

The nation’s food workers, hit hard by Covid-19 infections throughout the crisis, are finding resistance in the race to get vaccinated. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/covid-vaccine-food-farm-workers-459845 By XIMENA BUSTILLO and RYAN MCCRIMMON

(USA) Biden will halt federal executions, other actions on first day in office (Politico)

The president-elect has a long list of executive actions he plans to take as soon as he's sworn in on Jan. 20. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/biden-executive-actions-day-one-460146 By TYLER PAGER

(USA) US-bound caravan faces hunger, Biden plans immigration reform (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants huddled overnight on a highway in eastern Guatemala in the early hours of Monday after domestic security forces used sticks and...

(USA) Trump May Be Gone Soon, but America’s Problems Won’t (Scott McConnell, The National Interest)

If the GOP’s Trump problem will evaporate more quickly than many think, there is no clear sense of what that means for Trump’s issues...

(Turkey/Europe/USA) Facing Biden, Erdogan extends olive branch to EU (Euractiv)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/facing-biden-erdogan-extends-olive-branch-to-eu/

(USA/Europe) France suggests pause on ‘poisonous’ US-EU trade standoff (Euractiv)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/france-suggests-pause-on-poisonous-us-eu-trade-standoff/

(USA) Trump, in wave of Tuesday pardons, so far not planning to pardon himself (Euractiv)

  https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/trump-in-wave-of-tuesday-pardons-so-far-not-planning-to-pardon-himself/

(Russia/Open Skies Treaty/USA) Russia’s pullout of Open Skies Treaty was inevitable due to US position, says Beijing (TASS)

Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies, announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday, was inevitable due to the lack of desire to...

(USA) FBI vets troops amid fears of insider attack during inauguration (Al Jazeera)

US law enforcement agencies are screening all 25,000 National Guard officers deployed for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, fearing a possible insider attack after it...

(USA/Keystone Pipeline) Biden may scrap Keystone pipeline permit on his first day: Report (Al Jazeera)

US President-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9bn Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first acts in...

(USA/Iran) B-52 US bombers fly over Middle East; Iran condemns intimidation (Al Jazeera)

The United States again flew B-52 bombers over the Middle East with Iran responding it should spend its military budget on healthcare for Americans...

(USA/Taiwan) Pompeo’s 11th Hour Change in Taiwan Policy Does Taipei No Favors (Michael J. Green, Bonnie S. Glaser, Richard Bush, CSIS)

We have spent the better parts of our careers working to strengthen U.S. support for Taiwan based on the firm conviction that Taiwan’s democracy...

(USA/Saudi Arabia/Qatar) Why immunity for MBS should be off the table (Michael Eisner and Jack Steele, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/why-immunity-for-mbs-should-be-off-the-table/

(USA) Here’s how Trump’s parting acts have improved Biden’s shot at history (Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/heres-how-trumps-parting-acts-have-improved-bidens-shot-at-history/

(USA) A way out of America’s divergent realities (Hung Tran, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/a-way-out-of-americas-divergent-realities/