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OFAC Announces Two New Waves of Sanctions Targeting Russia’s Oil Production and Exports, Military-Industrial Base, and Sanctions Evaders
On January 10 and January 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sweeping ...
The American Spectator6d
Foreign Aid Reform: USAID Has a History of Funding Terrorists and Anti-American Organizations
A flurry of executive orders and the specter of a reorganization of USAID have focused attention on a sphere of policy in need of reform. In addition to the ...
It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to abandon Venezuelans | Opinion
Most Venezuelan expats would not return voluntarily unless Maduro stepped down, and millions more say they’ll flee if he ...
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DOJ and CISA Issue Proposed Rules Regulating Export of Bulk Sensitive Data
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Final Rule restricting certain transfers of Americans’ sensitive personal data to identified countries ...
Responsible Statecraft on MSN1d
Grenell vs. Rubio: Team Trump's competing Latin America politics
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s five-country tour of Central American allies last week — the first time in a century the U.S.’s top diplomat has made their inaugural foreign trip to Latin America — ...
Subsea Connections in a World of Disconnect: Navigating the Complex Web of International Trade Laws Related to Cable Networks
The authors write "As communications technologies continue to rapidly progress, cross-border development, maintenance, and ...
AmEx Closes 30 Accounts Allegedly Linked to Iran’s Government
American Express (AmEx), one of the world’s leading financial services corporations, has reportedly shut down 30 accounts suspected of having ties to Iran’s government. This action highlights the ...
THE WEEK1d
How were Beyonce and Jay-Z able to visit Cuba?
Only a tiny fraction of the many thousands of U.S. citizens who continue to visit Cuba annually without a license are ever identified as such by OFAC.... Under the Obama administration ...
Wall Street Journal4d
How Much the U.S. Spent on Foreign Aid—and Where It Went
The U.S. was the world’s largest funder of foreign aid for decades—propping up education, health services and human rights in developing countries and supporting the militaries of strategic ...
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The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that’s not happening
However, multiple USAID staff and contractors who have spoken to CNN say that’s not reflective of the situation on the ground. Almost all USAID humanitarian assistance programs remain stopped in ...