US Diplomacy

A large cargo ship navigates a river near the construction of a suspension bridge, with a visible crane on the partially built bridge deck.
Infrastructure
Canadians remain confident Gordie Howe Bridge will open even as Trump’s threats sow confusion
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Conflict & Justice
‘International law is in crisis’: Experts are concerned over the state of accountability on the global stage
US-China relations
Former US ambassador to China warns against alienating allies as China seeks greater global influence
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The World's Global Classroom
The number of Americans studying in China is a fraction of what it once was
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Amal Clooney
Conflict & Justice
A UN resolution condemning sexual violence against women should’ve been uncontroversial
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Politics
Can the census ask if you’re a citizen? Here’s what’s at stake in the Supreme Court battle over the 2020 census
US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One as he travesl to Florida for Easter weekend, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, April 18, 2019.
Politics
Mueller Report: Did Trump commit conspiracy? No. But collusion? Maybe.
A green military truck drives on a road.
US Diplomacy
State Dept. list of corrupt Central American government officials is a ‘sham,’ rep. says
A man holds his face in his hands as two young boys lay on a bed
Immigration
US immigrant visa denials skyrocket under ‘back door’ public charge rule change
A woman stands on the porch of a house
Conflict & Justice
Is Airbnb’s no-profit return to the West Bank ‘whitewashing’ human rights violations?
A man and a woman fill out forms with Mexican passports in the frame
Immigration
Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico — here’s what happened
A woman and three men walk next to a fence with razor wire.
Immigration
Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen is the latest departure of the Trump Administration
Seven men in different military uniforms walk next to military vehicles.
Global Politics
How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
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Global Politics
America has been at NATO’s helm for 70 years. Can it survive without US leadership?
A line of people stand along a fence. Behind them, a high rise office tower reads "Wells Fargo"
Immigration
As Trump knocks Mexico on immigration, López Obrador keeps quiet
Women with green bandanas protest in a crowd
Health & Medicine
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
A close-up photo of a mother and her daughter, who is wearing pink, at a bus station.
Immigration
Why are so many migrant families arriving at the southern US border?
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Global Nation First Person
For many, international adoption isn’t just a new family. It’s the loss of another life.
Francis Fukuyama standing outside with his arms crossed.
Global Politics
Francis Fukuyama on 2018, a year in identity politics
A gold coin with the letter B stamped amidst green and red wires.
Finance
By the numbers: A 2018 money-in-politics index
Two leaders sit at a desk signing a document.
How Trump’s exit from a Cold War-era treaty could trigger a 3-way arms race
A little girl wearing a red dress stands next to a dog near a destroyed building.
Global Politics
US Senate hands Trump historic double rebuke on Saudi Arabia and Yemen
The white gated entrance to the Am'ari camp.
Global Politics
US cuts funds to Palestinian refugees, leaving many without essential services
Two soldiers carrying guns stand in front of a black car.
Conflict
Yemen’s Sanaa airport to reopen; vital port city Hodeidah still contested
Detainees wearing orange jumpsuits crouch down within a barbed wire protected area.
Global Politics
5 things to know about Guantanamo Bay on its 115th birthday
Heather Nauert and Mike Pompeo wear navy blue suits and speak with reporters inside a plane.
Trump's state department
Trump names former news anchor as new UN ambassador
Three Syrian medical staff wear gas masks in a chemical weapons attack training.
Conflict
Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again — here’s how international law has changed to help countries intervene
A mother and son embrace in a library.
Immigration
For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion
A small girl in a t-shirt with bare legs and feet cries she and her mother run up a dirt hill.
Immigration
Mexico calls for ‘full investigation’ of US tear gas used at border
US President Donald Trump is shown shaking hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a medium framed photograph.
Global Politics
Trump maintains business as usual with Saudis
A woman holds a protest sign in Spanish.
Global Politics
US considers sanctions on Cuba for helping Venezuela’s dissent crackdown
Migrants sit on top of the US-Mexico border wall.
Immigration
US judge blocks Trump asylum restrictions
South Korean soldiers stand guard as construction equipment destroys a guard post in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, Nov. 15, 2018. 
US Diplomacy
Should the US lift sanctions against North Korea already?
Image of half of Trump's face with blurry US flag in background.
With Trump stymied at home, Europeans fear more disruption abroad
A large group of male migrants from Central America stand in line for food donations
Commentary
Why does the migrant ‘caravan’ exist? And how did it come to be?
A red map of China seen through a magnifying glass on computer screen showing binary digits
Global Politics
China exports its restrictive internet policies to dozens of countries, says Freedom House
Crowded homes and buildings stacked on a hill.
Immigration
‘We were born refugees’ — Lebanon’s forgotten refugee camp
a child plays at a camp in Idlib, Syria
US Diplomacy
Is US policy in Syria driven by politics or emotion?
A demonstrator wears a mask at rally in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
People visit a nail polish booth at the China Import and Export Fair in Guandgong province, China.
Chinese exporters worry more about the rising cost of doing business at home than trade wars
US President Donald Trump holds a chart of military hardware sales next to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince at the White House
Global Politics
Arms and influence in the Khashoggi affair
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley resigns
Trump's state department
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley resigns
a gap in the border wall between the US and Mexico
Business, Economics and Jobs
How ‘The Wall’ could kill a Texas city
Trump meets with Jinping in China
Commentary
The next cold war? US-China trade war risks something worse
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US Diplomacy
At UN meeting, Trump to put ‘America First’ approach on display
a poster in North Korea calling for the US to withdraw its military from the south
Global Politics
Inter-Korean summit produces ‘totally unprecedented’ results
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US Diplomacy
Cambridge Analytica parent hired by State Department to target terrorist propaganda
authorities dismantle a meth lab in mexico
Conflict & Justice
Joint US-Mexico effort to focus on drug kingpins’ financial infrastructure
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US Diplomacy
Steve Bannon’s ‘The Movement’ is an umbrella group of anti-establishment, populist parties in Europe
An aerial view shows the diplomatic area in Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Enirates led other Arab countries in cutting diplomatic relations with Qatar in June 2017. Organizations with ties to Saudi and the UAE then spent mi
Global Politics
How a diplomatic crisis among Gulf nations led to a fake news campaign in the United States
Under a new carbon offset program that is gaining popularity in Congress, oil and gas companies — and other manufacturers of products involving — fossil fuel would have to pay $40 for every ton of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.
Politics
New carbon offset program may have the bipartisan support it needs on Capitol Hill
US President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un with the flags of both countries behind them.
Trump, Kim make pledge on denuclearization
an aerial view of the Pentagon
Global Politics
Deep in the Pentagon, a secret AI program to find hidden nuclear missiles
Members of environmental groups hold up banners calling for renewable energy at the United Nations climate talks that took place in Bonn, Germany in 2015. Bonn was the site of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017, in which co
Climate Change
As latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
iraq town hall
After ISIS, will Iraq’s elections be the next step to stability?
Iraqi supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Sairun coalition celebrate after results of Iraq's parliamentary election were announced in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 14, 2018.
Populist cleric Sadr all but wins Iraq election
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US Diplomacy
A Basque terrorist organization has disarmed, which some hope will lead to new opportunities in the US
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North Korea releases three Americans ahead of summit with US
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The man who taught the Kremlin how to win the internet