SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA — When retired Lieutenant Sean Murphy patrolled the dry brush California hills outside San Ysidro, on the north side of the U.S.-Mexico border, there was no towering wall. The “barrier” that existed barely cast a shadow. “It was a wooden post here, and a wooden post there, and some barbed wire,” Murphy said. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) seek to identify Alaska attorneys interested in serving on the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. This information will be used in recommending to the President one or more candidates to succeed Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline, whose seat became […]
BEIJING — The possibility of a trade war between the United States and China loomed large over the horizon after the U.S. electoral college confirmed Donald Trump’s presidency on Monday. China is expected to take a series of defensive and retaliatory measures to counter any U.S. moves to restrict the role of Chinese goods and currency […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has again lashed out at Barack Obama, this time telling the U.S. president that he can “go to hell.” In a speech Tuesday, the Philippine leader also slammed the European Union, which he said could “choose purgatory, hell is filled up.” The comments were in response to Western criticism of Manila’s […]