Tag: USA

Biden Infrastructure Bill Makes Major Investments To Accelerate Clean Energy & Climate Innovation (Johnna Crider, CleanTechnica)

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), which is a think tank for science and technology policy, has released a statement from the director of its...
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Job Shortages, Pandemic Drive Record-Breaking North American Robot Orders (John P. Mello Jr., TechNewsWorld)

Industrial robots are hot, with North American orders for the first nine months of 2021 valued at US$1.48 billion, breaking a record set in...
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Briefing with Senior State Department Officials On the Situation in Ethiopia and Ongoing Efforts to Encourage the Departure of U.S. Citizens (US Department of...

SPECIAL BRIEFING OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON VIA TELECONFERENCE MODERATOR:  Thank you, Operator.  First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for joining us this afternoon for this...
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Secretary Blinken’s Call with Sudanese Prime Minister Hamdok and Sovereign Council Chair General Burhan (US Department of State)

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and separately with...
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Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita (US Department of State)

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Washington, D.C....
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Imposition of Further Sanctions in Connection with Nord Stream 2 (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE The Department of State has submitted a report to Congress pursuant to the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act...
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Venezuela’s Flawed November 21 Elections (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE The Maduro regime deprived Venezuelans yet again of their right to participate in a free and fair electoral...
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Taking Action Against ISIS-K (US Department of State)

The United States is committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province,...
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Automation and the radicalization of America (Julian Jacobs, Brookings)

As digital technology accelerates, there are questions about who is most likely to lose jobs due to automation and what the overall future of...
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Biden’s Summit for Democracy should focus on rights, not economics and geopolitics (Thomas Pepinsky, Brookings)

President Joe Biden’s first “Summit for Democracy” is an opportunity for the United States to highlight civil liberties, freedom of conscience, and peaceful dissent...
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Growing American leadership on the Sustainable Development Goals (Kaysie Brown, Anthony F. Pipa, Krista Rasmussen, and Max Bouchet, Brookings)

The 2021 U.N. General Assembly met at a tumultuous time for the world and for the United States—with looming concerns about climate change, rising...
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Will 5G mean airplanes falling from the sky? (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

When digital mobile phone technology was first introduced in the US, electric wheelchairs began behaving erratically. The pulsing signal interfered with their controls. The solution:...
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US must ‘accept reality’ and lift sanctions: Iran negotiator (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

The United States must “accept reality” and agree to lift its sanctions on Iran during next week’s nuclear talks in Vienna, according to Tehran’s...
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U.S., Israeli officials air public disagreements over upcoming nuclear talks with Iran (Barak Ravid, AXIOS)

The differences between the Biden administration and the Israeli government regarding the nuclear talks with Iran were aired out in the open during an...
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Israel signals confidence in its relationship with Biden (Laura Kelly, The Hill)

Israeli officials are feeling confident about where they stand in Washington nearly one year into the Biden administration. President Biden took office promising to recenter the...
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Space Force general: ‘We’re not as advanced as the Chinese or the Russians’ with hypersonic missiles (Brad Dress, The Hill)

American hypersonic missile capabilities are "not as advanced" as those of China or Russia, Space Force General David Thompson said Saturday at the Halifax...
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