Today, the United States sanctioned Rosneft Trading S.A., a Swiss-incorporated, Russian-owned oil brokerage firm, for operating in Venezuela’s oil sector. “Rosneft Trading”, the U.S. asserts, “has propped up the dictatorial Maduro, enabling his repression of the Venezuelan people” through the “sale and transport of Venezuela’s crude oil”. Separate from today’s…
300 Americans from Quarantined Cruise Ship Fly Back to U.S., 14 with Coronavirus
February 17, 2020
Yesterday, over 300 U.S. citizens and their immediate family members who had been passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, boarded a plane back to the United States after “all were deemed asymptomatic and fit to fly”. “During the evacuation process, after passengers had disembarked the ship and initiated transport to the…
Virginia Senate Shelves Assault Weapons Ban
February 17, 2020
Virginia’s Senate voted today to shelve a bill banning assault weapons. The bill, which recently passed the state’s house, would have made it illegal “for any person to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, or purchase an assault firearm.” Although democrats control the Virginia Senate, four democratic senators voted against the bill.…
U.S. Working Towards Removal of Roughly 4,000 Troops from Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense says
February 16, 2020
On Thursday, the United States and Taliban agreed to “a reduction in violence in Afghanistan”, to last for a period of seven days. Following this peace period, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the U.S. will “have to consider whether or not to move forward with a [full] peace agreement.”…