Marco Rubio

Republican lawmakers are at an apparent impasse regarding next steps with Iran as nuclear negotiations sputter.  Iran and President Donald Trump’s administration have been discussing potential diplomatic solutions to halt the former’snuclear development programs.  However, recent reports suggest Iran is unwilling to concede to the US’s main requests, and every day without a ‘nuclear deal’ […]

The US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions against several charitable aid organizations that are surreptitiously channeling donations received to Palestinian terror organizations.  The sanctions impact five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) spread throughout the Middle East and Europe who reportedly directly cooperate with US-designated terror groups Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). […]

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently struck Houthi assets in the Hudaydah Port in Yemen as a response to ongoing daily Houthi attacks on Israel’s citizenry.  According to IDF reports, the Hudaya port was targeted because it “is used to transfer weapons and to exploit civilian infrastructure to advance terrorist activities.”  Civilians allegedly received warnings […]

State Secretary Marco Rubio, under the authority of an executive order formerly issued by President Donald Trump, recently expanded sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC).  The ICC is an international tribunal designed to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Last February, President […]

Gunmen shot and critically wounded Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a future presidential candidate last week during a campaign rally in Bogotá, Colombia. Armed assailants entered the park where the rally was taking place and shot Uribe from behind. Uribe, who announced his presidential bid in March, was accompanied by a team of 21 people […]

Venezuelan Democratic opposition leader Maria Corina Machado personally thanked Republican South Florida Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Carlos Gimenez for hosting three Venezuelan dissidents who recently fled Venezuela. The three Republican representatives hosted Venezuelan democratic dissidents Pedro Urruchurtu, Claudia Macero, and Humberto Villalobos.  The dissidents had been sheltering inside Argentina’s embassy in Venezuela […]

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s ongoing political row over the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is causing intense debate over whether Republicans should pass the act in an upcoming Senate vote.  The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ was recently passed in the House of Representatives, and includes a variety of policies including no taxes on tips, […]

For the first four days of June, Israel has been forced to defend its civilian population from consecutive Houthi missile attacks.  Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) reported having to respond to presumptive Houthi attacks every day since the beginning of June. “It’s only June 3, and for the third time […]

President Donald Trump recently imposed a travel moratorium on several Middle Eastern countries plus Cuba and Venezuela.  President Trump justified the travel ban by arguing that the countries included fail to cooperate with the US government’s immigration proceedings. The travel ban includes blanket prohibition on all immigrants from 12 states and partial prohibitions on immigrants […]

State Secretary Marco Rubio recently announced the State Department will be restricting the Visas of foreign government officials partaking in Cuba’s medical doctors forced labor initiatives.  For months, reports have alleged that the Communist Cuban regime is profiting off the forced labor of Cuban doctors.  More than 40,000 Cuban doctors are reportedly spread worldwide in […]

State Secretary Marco Rubio has warned that immigrants sympathizing with the recent wave of antisemitic attacks could have their visas revoked and face deportation.  Secretary Rubio’s comments follow an attack in Boulder, CO, against pro-Israel demonstrators calling for the release of all hostages in Gaza.  During the attack, illegal immigrant Mohamed Sabry Soliman approached a […]

The US is restarting diplomatic operations in its embassy in Damascus, Syria, as relations between Syria’s interim government and the US improve.  The embassy had been closed since February 2012 due to internal conflict and violence caused by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported how “Ambassador Thomas Barrack raised […]

Representative Maria Elvira-Salazar (R-FL) recently wrote to President Donald Trump’s administration requesting they block the proposed sale of the Venezuelan democratic opposition's control over oil company CITGO.  CITGO is a US-based oil refiner, transporter, and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and other industrial products.  PDVSA, a state-owned oil company of the Venezuelan government, is […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the Trump administration will target "foreign officials and persons" who look to restrict Americans' "free speech rights," stating that a new "visa restriction policy" will be put into place. "For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free […]

The ‘penny’ coin has been in circulation for nearly as long as the US’s existence and is worth one cent.  Penny production has long sparked intense debate as lawmakers have quarreled over the coin’s benefits. Producing pennies costs more than they are worth, as each one costs over three cents.  Recently, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) […]

The Trump administration has just announced that it will begin to expel or revoke the visas of Chinese students studying at U.S. colleges and universities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on social media that Chinese students would have their visas revoked, including "those with connections" to the Chinese government. "?The U.S. will begin revoking […]

The US State Department recently issued warnings urging US citizens in Venezuela to depart as soon as possible as the country was assigned a Level 4 travel advisory: ‘Do Not Travel.’ According to the State Department, the Level 4 travel advisory was issued due to “severe risks to Americans including wrongful detention, torture in detention, […]

The US Treasury Department recently announced sanctions against members of terrorist criminal gang organizations in Mexico. The sanctions target members of cartels President Donald Trump designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). Designating the cartels as FTOs was one of President Trump’s campaign promises, and it was something conservatives had long urged former President Joe Biden […]