The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law with revisions to key mining policies. While the legislation boosts ...

Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, the geopolitical landscape in Europe has been irrevocably altered, prompting the president of France Emmanuel Macron to emphasize that France’s vital interests ...

The 2023 State Department Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP report) highlighted a new form of trafficking that has largely gone unnoticed outside victim support circles, but which has serious ...

On June 22, 2025, the United States executed "Operation Midnight Hammer," where over 125 U.S. military aircraft targeted three Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The surprise ...

China is increasingly a global power. Its overseas interests are vast and complex, spanning every region of the world. In many places, Beijing is leveraging new sources of strength to assert its ...

By: Meredith Broadbent and Joyce Bongongo This month, Florida became the seventh state to sign a trade Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom, advancing a new strategy to cement ...

There have been different accounts from the administration on how reciprocity is going to be calculated. The initial idea was outlined in the February 13, 2025, presidential memorandum directing the ...

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic decisionmaking is still evolving. There are concerns about ethics, escalation dynamics, testing and evaluation standards, and how best to align ...

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As in all other middle income countries except for China, remittances are the largest source of external financing in Mexico, with proven impacts including reducing the most extreme instances of ...

In the Global South, there are opportunities to develop clean energy. Although some African countries have fossil fuel reserves, the continent is also home to 60 percent of renewable energy resources ...

Building minerals security is one of the most bipartisan goals in Washington. The United States first opened its Bureau of Mines in 1910 to coordinate minerals security needs. It was closed in 1996.