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State Department nominee: Russia's use of chemical weapons 'chilling and shocking' POLITICO 1 hr ago By Jonathan Custodio © Susan Walsh/AP PHoto Sen. Bob Menendez, committee chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the White House should have imposed sanctions on Russia for its role in the 2020 poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia's use of chemical weapons against its main opposition leader and the Turkish president's "provocative" and "destabilizing" comments about Cyprus took center stage Tuesday as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he...

Racist history of voter suppression that continues to silence the -- the many vote -- votes and voices of everyday texans. >> s.b. 1 continues to be nothing but attack on texans' voting rights under the guise of preserving election integrity. nothing but a way to silence the black, brown, and young voices that showed up to vote in record numbers last fall. >> how many eligible voters can you squeeze out of our democratic process and be okay with it? i believe that answer should be zero. >> former-texas congressman beto o'rourke testified at the hearing on saturday. >> an elections bill that is...

The White House WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate seven individuals to fill key roles in the State Department: Director General of the Foreign Service and the Chair of the Board of the Foreign Service Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Secu...

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Meanwhile, Russia “foments division and insecurity in established and struggling democracies, especially those close to its borders, viewing the spread of democracy as an existential threat,” according to the report. Both Beijing and Moscow “seek to advance their interests by undermining the rules-based liberal international order that the United States and its allies have superintended for three-quarters of a century, and which constrains their ambitions,” it said. “We are living through a historically unprecedented rate of technological, economic, demographic, and geopolitical cha...