In 2025, Beijing’s foreign information influence operations grew more sophisticated and insidious, leveraging emerging technologies, global platforms, and transnational repression tactics to advance ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday announced a ban on all drones and critical components made in a foreign country, citing national security concerns. To that end, the agency ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. As 2025 wraps up an eventful year in foreign policy, five CFR fellows look ahead to what they’ll be watching in 2026. In charts, graphics, ...

On January 20, 2025, an Executive Order titled “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” introduced a 90-day pause in foreign assistance programs pending review. 6 On January 24, ...

The White House's new National Security Strategy (NSS) shifts to an "America First" approach, focusing on the Western Hemisphere and economic security over global commitments. The strategy softens ...

A new study from UC San Francisco shows it may be possible to control HIV without long-term antiviral treatment — an advance that points the way toward a possible cure for a disease that affects 40 ...

Over lunch, EU trade ministers and exchanged views with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Today’s discussions reaffirmed the EU and US’s shared ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Donald Trump may have cleared the high ...

The U.S. is set to designate Cartel de los Soles — a group that the Trump administration has claimed is headed by Venezuela's president — as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Marco ...

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