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Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently announced the US was levying new sanctions on Chinese officials for civil rights abuses perpetrated in Hong Kong.  Hong Kong, following the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, officially became Chinese territory after having been a British colony for over one hundred years.  The declaration featured pledges from the Chinese […]

President Donald Trump has congratulated Germany’s center-right party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), for their recent electoral victory in Germany’s parliamentary elections.  Germany’s elections were held at the order of the former President Olaf Scholz from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) after his governmental coalition began to break down.  President Trump called the CDU’s victory a […]

The Houthis, an Iranian-backed terrorist group operating out of Yemen, reportedly recently struck four different merchant vessels in the Red Sea. The US, United Kingdom, Israel, and other allied nations have been attempting to deflect Houthi attacks, which often come in the form uncrewed aerial system (drone) strikes. Almost daily, Houthi forces have executed drone […]

Tallahassee, Fl- Senator Blaise Ingoglia(R) has floored a bill in the Florida Senate to prohibit the state of Florida from making any reparations payments in perpetuity.  Reparation payments considered in the bill are those potentially arising from claims of descendants of enslaved individuals.  The bill proposes to amend Florida’s Constitution so as to constitutionally enshrine […]

The Secretary of State for Business and Trade for the United Kingdom was in the United States on Wednesday, but not to meet with President Joe Biden. Secretary Kemi Badenoch met with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville to sign a Memorandum of Understanding  (MOU) between the U.K. and Florida. The governor's office says this […]