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On Tuesday, President Joe Biden and his administration celebrated Sweden’s admission into NATO. Biden has been widely credited with facilitating the expansion of the bloc. Sweden’s entry comes 14 months after applying to the alliance. The request was being blocked by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who agreed to Sweden’s ascension after the country changed its laws on burning the Koran and restarted arms exports to Turkey. Erdogan’s move will come as a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Sweden will greatly expand NATO territory and strengthen the bloc, disrupting Russia’s eff...
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President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” while speaking at a political fundraiser in California. The comment came only a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned from a trip to Beijing. Tensions between the United States and China are already running high, following the alleged Chinese surveillance balloon found floating in American airspace in January, which the Department of Defense brought down using fighter jets. China has since claimed that the balloon was a civilian airship that had accidentally veered off course. Biden refuted this statement ...
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin traveled in secrecy to Ukraine on Sunday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, marking the first visit by high-ranking U.S. officials to war-torn Kyiv since Russia invaded in late February. Their visit was only confirmed after they were safely out of Ukraine. The two officials spoke with reporters about the three-hour meeting after they arrived in Poland early Monday morning. “We’re seeing that when it comes to Russian war aims, Russia is failing. Ukraine is succeeding,” Blinken said. The U.S. promised Ukrai...
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The Department of State announced on Thursday that U.S. citizens will be able to designate their gender marker as “X” on their passports beginning on April 11. The option will become available for other forms of documentation next year. “X” will represent “unspecified or another gender identity,” according to the statement released on International Transgender Day of Visibility by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The update comes after first classifying the third gender marker for those who identified as non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals. “After thoughtful considerat...
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Over three hours late Tuesday night, a series of shootings targeted Atlanta-area massage parlors leaving at least eight dead. A majority of the victims were Asian-Americans and the parlors targeted were Asian-American owned. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker explained that the shootings began at Young Asians Massage Parlor in Acworth, Georgia. Two victims died at the scene and two more died in hospital care hours later. An hour after the attack on Young Asian Massage Parlor, Gold Spa in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood was attacked by a gunman who killed three women at ...
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President-elect Joe Biden nominated Antony Blinken as his secretary of state on Tuesday, along with several other Cabinet nominations. Blinken is a current foreign policy adviser to Biden.Biden has said one of his top priorities is creating a less contentious relationship between America and its allies. Blinken’s deep knowledge of foreign policy will be extremely useful to Biden in repairing alliances.Biden worked with Blinken during the Obama Administration, and Blinken served as deputy secretary of state and principal deputy national security adviser, as well as Biden’s own national security...
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