Much of Haiti is in the control of armed gang leaders such as Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier.
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Kenya’s William Ruto will meet President Joe Biden during a rare US state visit from an African leader − and one that comes as Haiti’s crisis spirals.
President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line on Sept. 26, 2023, alongside UAW President Shawn Fain.
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Biden is arguably the most pro-union occupant of the White House since the New Deal.
Philippine troops watch as a missile hits a target during a live-fire joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
The men’s dormitory at a new center for asylum-seekers in Portland, Maine.
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People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
PacifiCorp’s Hunter coal-fired power plant in Utah is scheduled to shut down by 2032.
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Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
Kanpai! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is hoping the U.S.-Japan relationship doesn’t lose its fizz.
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Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission’s chair, announced the ban.
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There are better ways to keep employees on board, such as boosting pay and providing better benefits.
The Fort Randall hydropower dam in South Dakota flooded thousands of acres of Native American land when it was built in 1952.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently ruled that it won’t approve energy projects on Native lands without tribal consent. But many more applications are pending.
A Nigerien official explains to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the jihadist crisis facing Niger and the surrounding region in March 2023.
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The disintegration of the United States’ relationship with Niger following its military coup in 2023 is giving way to stronger ties between the African country and Russia and China.
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conduct a drill with ballistic missiles in 2021.
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Tehran has warned that no Israeli embassy is safe following deadly bombing of its mission in Damascus.
President Joe Biden greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York City in September 2023.
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Israel has historically made statements and taken actions to placate US anger without always following through. But will Biden’s threat to put conditions on aid force Israel to behave differently?
More than 140 people died in the Crocus City Hall assualt in Moscow on March 22, 2023.
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A spate of terror operations carried out by the Islamic State group affiliate has raised concerns over a potential attack on US soil.
Then-President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras talks with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Guatemala in 2016.
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Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.
Charging bays at the Electrify America indoor electric vehicle charging station in San Francisco.
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The new rule isn’t a mandate for electric vehicles, but it will sharply increase their market share over the coming decade.
A Texas National Guard soldier watches over a group of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 18, 2023.
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The Supreme Court announced that Texas can have state authorities arrest and deport undocumented migrants. A lower court has temporarily blocked the law.
Chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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Can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a stable future? Not without sustained funding for after the troops leave.
Migrants wade through the Tuquesa River as they traverse the Darien Gap.
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More than half a million people made the treacherous crossing in 2023 – far higher than in previous years.
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.
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A rising number of Americans say that immigration is the country’s biggest problem. Biden called for Congress to pass a bipartisan border and immigration bill during his State of the Union.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took questions on the day the Biden administration announced an executive order that puts personal data privacy in a national security context.
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The dangers posed by the largely unregulated commercial data market prompted the Biden administration to try to prevent adversarial countries from exploiting Americans’ sensitive personal data.
Will war fatigue be a factor?
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Russia appears to have seized the battleground initiative as the Ukraine war marks its second anniversary – but the conflict is far from over.