Tag: USA

US envoy to Afghanistan resigns in wake of chaotic withdrawal (Al Jazeera)

Top United States envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is stepping down, the State Department has announced, less than two months after the chaotic US...
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Iran: ‘Seriousness’ in nuclear talks means lifting sanctions (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said seriousness on the part of the United States in upcoming talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal would mean lifting sanctions...
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The US needs urgently to raise its macropru game (Donald Kohn, Brookings)

Implementing robust macroprudential policy—addressing threats to financial stability beyond those that were the focus of safety and soundness on an institution-by-institution basis or of...
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Remembering Colin Powell and a pivotal moment before the Gulf War (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

Colin Powell shaped American history as the first African American secretary of state and as a role model for the American success story, going...
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Focus on finances to promote doctoral student diversity (Walter G. Ecton and Shaun M. Dougherty, Brookings)

Increasing the diversity of students in Ph.D. programs is crucial to creating a pipeline of future researchers and educators in the nation’s system of...
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What life in space teaches astronauts about solving challenges on planet Earth (Darrell M. West, Brookings)

The future of space is here. NASA is preparing to return to the Moon and is planning to have missions to Mars. Private space...
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Rule of law takes a big hit during COVID-19 (Ted Piccone, Brookings)

The global pandemic has dramatically impaired the lives of millions of people around the world. It has also dealt a body blow to democracy,...
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Bitcoin hovers near six-month high on ETF hopes (Al Jazeera)

Bitcoin hovered near a six-month high early on Monday on hopes that US regulators would soon allow cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to trade, while...
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The Taiwan Triangle (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The goal of US policy toward the island should be to reduce uncertainty about America’s intentions and its ability to make good on them,...
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NASA investigating issue with Lucy solar array (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Engineers are investigating why one of the two solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft may have failed to lock into place when deployed after...
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PlanetIQ announces highest-performance radio occultation satellite (Debra Werner, Space News)

PlanetIQ executives are delighted with weather data being acquired by the Golden, Colorado, firm’s first operational satellite launched in June. So delighted, in fact,...
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TrustPoint raises $2 million for GPS alternative (Debra Werner, Space News)

TrustPoint Inc., a startup developing a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), has raised $2 million in seed funding from venture capital firm DCVC. With the...
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NASA expects vaccination mandates to have little impact on Artemis 1 preparations (Jeff Foust, Space News)

As NASA prepares to install the Orion spacecraft on the first Space Launch System rocket, agency officials played down any effect coronavirus vaccine mandates...
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It’s Time for Rapprochement Between Turkey and the United States (Hasan Murat Mercan, Defense One)

Recent developments unfolding in the Middle East, North Africa, Black Sea Basin, and Asia have rippling effects that are testing the robustness of the...
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Turkey: US proposed to sell it F-16 fighters (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Oct. 17 the United States has proposed the sale of a batch of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey...
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Tackling inflation is biggest challenge for Biden (Wen Sheng, Global Times)

The Biden administration is facing growing pressure to tame skyrocketing inflation and other economic woes that cast a cloud over upcoming mid-term elections in...
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