Noah Joshua Phillips serves as one of five Commissioners on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, following his appointment to the position by President…
Pete Reynolds
January 4
Indian Sikh devotees take a dip in the holy sarovar (water tank) in the early morning on the occasion of the New Year at the Sikh shrine Golden Temple in Amritsar on January 1, 2019. (Getty)
A Pilgrim at Bete Giyorgis (Saint George) Church reads scripture as other pilgrims gather at the church below following their pilgrimage to Lalibela for the January 7th Orthodox Christmas on January 04, 2019 in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Ethiopians follow the Julian calendar and therefore the Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7th. Some pilgrims have walked for as long as three weeks and have come from the farthest corners of Ethiopia to observe the holiday. (Getty)
Fireworks explode at the Arc de Triomphe during New Year's celebrations on January 1, 2019 in Paris, France. (Getty)
Burmese people mark the New Year with the Thingyan water festival, a type of cleansing ritual.
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) leads a meeting of his Cabinet, including acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt (L) and acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, in the Cabinet Room at the White House January 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty)
A worker work on palm oil fruit lorry at a local palm plantation on January 3, 2019 in Banting outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia and Indonesia, the top two palm oil producers, were seeking a reduction in the import tax by New Delhi as inventories were rising in both countries due to higher output. (Getty)
Brazil just swore in a new president: Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman and former military officer. Bolsonaro is as much an apparition from…
Astable world order is a rare thing. When one does arise, it tends to come after a great convulsion that creates both the conditions and the desire…
Russia’s 2014 annexation ofCrimea, its war in easternUkraine, its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and other aggressive acts…
The possibility of conflict between the United States and Iran in 2019 warrants heightened focus.Following the withdrawal of the US from the Iran…
As the U.S.-Chinese trade war rages on, a broader conflict is brewing between the two countries over which will secure the upper hand in…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 marked a sharp break with the past: the post–Cold War interlude, a time when peace and democracy spread across…
On December 19, President Trump asserted that ISIS has been defeated and that the U.S. would withdraw all of its 2,000 American troops from Syria …
In nearly 50 conflict zones around the world, some one and a half billion people live under the threat of violence. In many of these places, the…
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US and Iran: open to talks, preparing for war
