U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker has announced he will hold a hearing next week on the president’s “authority to use nuclear weapons.” Corker said the hearing is a part of the Senate’s examination of “the authority and process for using U.S. nuclear weapons.” He said Congress has not revisited the issue since […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is considering designating North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House national security adviser said Thursday, a move meant to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government. The State Department faced a congressionally mandated deadline Thursday to respond to several U.S. senators’ request that North Korea […]
President Donald Trump is likely to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and turn it back to Congress for possible renewed sanctions, senior U.S. officials said Thursday. Trump is expected to announce his plans in a speech next week in which he will say the agreement is not in the U.S. national interest, the officials […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined her colleagues on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to attend an Oversight Hearing on “The GAO Reports on Human Trafficking of American Indian and Alaska Natives in the United States”. The hearing focused on the impacts of human trafficking of American Indians and Alaska Natives, […]