Household Products Increase Odds of Cancer Diagnoses New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that many widely used chemicals increase the odds of certain “hormonally driven” cancers for women. These ‘forever chemicals’— called per-and-poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) —are found on thousands of household and industrial products, including water-, stain-
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly discusses the United Kingdom’s foreign policy priorities and approach to the seventy-eighth United Nations General Assembly. FROMAN: Good afternoon. My name is Mike Froman. I’m president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Welcome to what is a busy UNGA week. Thank you for braving the traffic to get here. We’re joined today
September 22, 2023 2023-09-22T13:04:35-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYTQwXC8wMDFcLzE2OTU0MDI0MTNfMDAxLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19The House Rules Committee mets to debate the proposed 2024 spending bills for the departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, and Agriculture. In this portion, Reps. Boebert, Gaetz, Biggs & others advocate for their spending priorities. The House Rules Committee mets to debate the proposed 2024 spending bills for the departments of
A cascade of coups since 2020 in six former French colonies in the Sahel and West Africa—Burkina Faso, Chad, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, and Niger—has presented new opportunities for Iran, Russia, and other Western adversaries. Support for the coups has come from local populations that have grown tired of French and other Western neo-colonialism as well
This commentary was originally published in Good Authority on September 20, 2023. Five hostages are coming home. In recent weeks, the Biden administration finalized a complicated deal to recover five U.S. citizens the U.S. government deemed wrongfully detained in Iran. On Monday, after years of imprisonment and high-stakes negotiations, they were finally released. Prisoners Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi, and Morad Tahbaz
Although the United States and Israel have enjoyed a uniquely close alliance since the latter’s declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948, the bilateral relationship between the two countries has witnessed its own difficulties throughout the past seven and a half decades. Governments in Washington and Tel Aviv have frequently been at odds over key
The widening gap between African citizens’ support for democracy and their satisfaction with how democracy works was a central topic of discussion at the 2023 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP) Conference. Along with debates about the resurgence of military coups and the inconsistent African and international approaches to address them and other forms of unconstitutional changes of
September 22, 2023 Campaign 2024 2023-09-22T10:07:20-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNTIxXC8wMTBcLzE2OTUzOTE4NzRfMDEwLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX192024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley delivered remarks on her economic policy at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, NH. She spoke about promoting prosperity for the U.S., while reducing the country’s economic dependence on China. She also called for a five-year limit on career bureaucrats to stay
16 hours ago This page collects the Critical Threats Project (CTP) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) updates on the invasion of Ukraine for August 2023. Full list of Ukraine invasion updates are available here. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 31, 2023Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations near Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast and in western Zaporizhia
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Baghdad and Erbil August 22-24, holding discussions with Iraqi and Kurdish officials centered on key issues such as the resumption of oil exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan region through Turkey and a related arbitration dispute, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the ongoing water dispute between Ankara and Baghdad.