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How Snatching American Citizens Turned Into a Tool of Hostile Governments
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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How Snatching American Citizens Turned Into a Tool of Hostile Governments

Dec. 27, 2023 12:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)The problem was staring up from a deck of cards, handed from one presidency to the next. As the Trump administration exited the White House, its national security team left behind some 30 baseball-style cards for the incoming Biden staff, monuments to an ancient practice that had somehow become a grave 21st-century challenge. Each bore the photo of an American held hostage abroad. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Endangers U.S. Troops – WSJ
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden Endangers U.S. Troops – WSJ

It was going to happen sooner or later: American service members would be seriously hurt as Iran-backed militias conduct lethal target practice against U.S. bases in the Middle East. When will President Biden do his duty as Commander in Chief and protect Americans deployed abroad?Iranian proxies have attacked U.S. forces in the Middle East about 100 times since October, and on Monday an explosive drone made it past U.S. defenses at a base in Iraq. Two Americans were wounded and a third is in critical condition. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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American Spies Confront a New, Formidable China
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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American Spies Confront a New, Formidable China

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 12:04 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)WASHINGTON—Beijing’s spycatchers all but blinded the U.S. in China a decade ago when they systematically rounded up a network of Chinese agents working for the CIA. As many as two dozen assets providing information to the U.S. were executed or imprisoned, among them high-ranking Chinese officials.The CIA is still struggling to rebuild its human espionage capabilities in China, the agency’s top intelligence target, according to interviews with current and former U.S. officials. The gaps leave the U.S. with limited understanding of secret deliberations among Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his inner circle on key security issues such as Taiwan and other topics, the officials said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rig...
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Iran-Backed Forces Widen Their Attacks on Commercial Shipping
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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Iran-Backed Forces Widen Their Attacks on Commercial Shipping

Updated Dec. 25, 2023 2:29 pm ETEscalating Iran-backed attacks against global commercial shipping in the Red Sea have heightened pressure on the Biden administration as officials scramble to protect trade while trying to avoid a direct confrontation with Tehran.The U.S. Navy said late Saturday that two more vessels had been attacked that day by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, bringing the number of commercial ships attacked near a crucial passageway between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East to 15.  The Pentagon said earlier in the day that a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean was struck by a drone launched directly from Iran, a claim Tehran denied.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime 
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime 

INDIANAPOLIS—The Biden administration is walking a tightrope on law enforcement, raising its support for local police fighting violent crime without abandoning its longtime goal of curbing misconduct in some departments.In the past month alone, the Justice Department announced it would flood federal agents and racketeering prosecutors into Memphis, Tenn.; charged 20 people in South Carolina with trafficking guns and drugs; and seized a cache of machine guns, rifles and silencers in Rhode Island. The top federal prosecutor in Washington said he would try more teenage carjacking suspects as adults, blasting what he described as overly lenient criminal-justice laws that had “swung too far” in the nation’s capital.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe8568...
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Biden Convinced Netanyahu to Halt a Pre-Emptive Strike Against Hezbollah
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden Convinced Netanyahu to Halt a Pre-Emptive Strike Against Hezbollah

Dec. 23, 2023 11:30 am ETWASHINGTON—President Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah forces in Lebanon days after Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, warning that such an attack could spark a wider regional war.Israel had intelligence—which the U.S. deemed unreliable—that Hezbollah attackers were preparing to cross the border as part of a multipronged attack, pushing some of Israel’s more hawkish officials to the brink, officials said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden’s Foolish Snub of Nippon Steel
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s Foolish Snub of Nippon Steel

Nippon Steel’s proposed $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel “appears to deserve serious scrutiny,” the White House said Thursday. The statement came after an outcry from protectionist lawmakers, including Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), who have cited union and national-security concerns and vowed to block the sale. The anti-Japanese business rhetoric is reminiscent of the 1980s, when U.S.-Japan trade tensions threatened to undermine a critically important bilateral alliance during the Cold War.U.S. politicians’ unjustified criticisms of the deal could strain relations between the U.S. and Japan and weaken their collaboration on trade and economic security. The White House should work with allies on economic and military cooperation, not criticize them.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Com...
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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

New YorkJoe Biden is asking voters to let him field the nuclear football until he’s 86, which is an obvious political vulnerability. Yet many Democrats fear that acknowledging this in a voice louder than a library whisper would help Donald Trump and damage their inevitable 2024 nominee. Rep. Dean Phillips has no qualms about weakening Mr. Biden. “He’s going to lose anyway,” the Minnesota Democrat says. “I don’t see any way for Biden to beat Trump in any circumstance whatsoever.” The people truly undermining Mr. Biden are the ones “propagating this delusion that he can be the next president.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Senate Negotiators Race to Craft Border Deal Framework by Sunday
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Senate Negotiators Race to Craft Border Deal Framework by Sunday

WASHINGTON—Senate negotiators were working to meet a self-imposed deadline of Sunday evening to hammer out a framework for border-security measures that Republicans have demanded as a condition of passing Democrats’ $110.5 billion aid package containing new funding for Ukraine.The aid package is seen by President Biden and much of Congress as crucial to keeping Russia from gaining a critical advantage almost two years into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Lawmakers have been at an impasse for months, after GOP lawmakers said that any efforts to help Ukraine must also include provisions to stop a historic level of illegal migration at the U.S. southern border.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden’s Agenda Hangs in Balance as Tough Election Year Approaches
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s Agenda Hangs in Balance as Tough Election Year Approaches

Updated Dec. 16, 2023 12:06 am ETWASHINGTON—President Biden heads into the end of the year with deepening Democratic worries about his re-election, as his effort to aid allies in two wars hangs in the balance on Capitol Hill and an impeachment inquiry into him and his family moves forward. At the same time, some rays of hope are peeking through for the incumbent as a tough 2024 contest looms, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching a record high and—perhaps most important from an electoral perspective—consumer confidence rebounding this month faster than expected. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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