Tag: USA

The November jobs report shows Black women are leaving the labor force (Anthony Barr, Makada Henry-Nickie, and Kristen Broady, Brookings)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) November jobs report, released December 3, provides mixed news about the state of the nation’s economic recovery. Total nonfarm...
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A most unusual recovery: How the US rebound from COVID differs from rest of G7 (Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Brookings)

The pace of recovery from the COVID shock differs across major advanced economies. In contrast to Europe and Japan, U.S. GDP exceeded its pre-COVID...
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US’ port congestions drive up freight rates in Southeast Asia (Yin Yeping, Global Times)

Ports in some Southeast Asian countries have encountered a new round of freight rate surge since late November, driven by US port congestions and...
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South-South forum tackles human rights issues (Xu Yelu and Leng Shumei, Global Times)

High-level officials and experts from China and a dozen developing countries on Wednesday discussed the differences of the human rights systems in China and...
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US’ wanton sanctions deal humanitarian disasters in countries it dislikes (Global Times)

How many evils have been committed in the name of democracy? Exporting wars, launching "color revolutions," fomenting extremist ideologies, and promoting economic instability... the US...
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Zelenskiy welcomes Biden’s ‘personal role’ on peace in eastern Ukraine (Natalia Zinets, Reuters)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's "personal role" in trying to attain peace in eastern Ukraine, in his first...
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Russia says both sides to follow up quickly on Putin-Biden call (Reuters)

Russian and U.S. officials will urgently follow up Tuesday's two-hour call between presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden on Ukraine with discussions on "this...
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U.S. imposes new restrictions on Cambodia over human rights, corruption -Commerce (Reuters)

The United States imposed an arms embargo and new export restrictions on Cambodia on Wednesday to address human rights abuses and corruption, as well...
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Ukraine welcomes Biden-Putin call as path to deterrence and de-escalation (Matthias Williams, Reuters)

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Reuters on Wednesday that talks between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin had enabled "deterrence...
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Experts Suggest Open Source Intelligence Has Important Role to Play in National Security (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

The U.S. intelligence community, or IC, was born in the early days of the Cold War when the Central Intelligence Agency was created in...
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‘Slow-Boil Crisis’: DIA Needs More Capability to Track Russian, Chinese Tech Work (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The U.S. military is “in a slow-boil crisis” because of Russian and Chinese technology development, particularly in areas such hypersonics, computing, and AI, Lt. Gen....
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U.S. Supercomputer to Support Renewable Energy Innovation Coming in 2023 (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, is set to gain a powerful new supercomputer that will support huge, data-intensive workloads and...
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House passes defense bill 363-70; Senate up next (Joe Gould, Defense News)

The House passed a new compromise defense policy bill and sent it to the Senate Tuesday in a step toward extending the bill’s 60-year streak. The House...
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Space Force launches experimental payloads into orbit (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Space Force launched a host of experimental payloads into orbit along with a NASA satellite Dec. 7 as part of the Space...
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NDAA would put brakes on A-10 aircraft retirement, but let others go (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

A new compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022 would allow the Air Force to retire most of the aircraft it sought...
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Sweeping military justice reforms, plan to add women to draft dropped from compromise authorization bill (Leo Shane III and Joe Gould, Defense News)

Lawmakers’ last-ditch effort to save the annual defense authorization measure includes more modest reforms to the military’s criminal justice system and drops plans to add...
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