Adrianna Pita

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden gestures to retired U.S. General Lloyd Austin speak after Biden announced Austin as his nominee to be defense secretary at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

How is Biden’s presidential transition going?

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, December 10, 2020

President Donald Trump walks out of the room after an Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit in the South Court Auditorium of the of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on December 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

What will Trump’s final foreign policies mean for the Biden administration?

Thomas Wright and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper address the daily White House coronavirus response briefing with members of the administration's coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2GMF9QPP29/File Photo

Why did Trump fire Secretary of Defense Esper?

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adrianna Pita

Monday, November 9, 2020

US Department of Commerce in Washington DC

What will Trump’s executive order mean for the future of the civil service?

Scott R. Anderson and Adrianna Pita

Monday, November 2, 2020

FILE PHOTO: An election worker places mail-in ballots into a voting box at a drive-through drop off location at the Registrar of Voters for San Diego County in San Diego, California, U.S., October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

What trends are we seeing in early voting?

Elaine Kamarck and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Khartoum, Sudan.- Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo (left) meets with the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah el-Burhan (right), in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. Pompeo arrived this Tuesday ( 25) to Sudan in the first visit by a head of US diplomacy in 15 years, as part of a regional tour to convince other Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates. Pompeo, arrived directly from Israel on a first historic flight between the two countries.

What’s the significance of the US-Israel-Sudan normalization deal?

Zach Vertin and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 23, 2020

A woman is typing on Google search engine from a laptop and iPhone. Editorial credit: PK Studio / Shutterstock.com

What’s behind the US Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google?

Bill Baer and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- In the April 24, 2020 file photo, children in Haiti try to educate themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could set back "decades" the progress made in the education of girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which may "never return to the classroom", as it has warned this Tuesday, International Plan. The NGO estimates that currently some 500 million children and young people around the world are not receiving distance education, "something that is having devastating consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean", where more than 95 percent of minors have remained outside of classrooms without many of them being able to follow classes online.

What’s the state of global girls’ education during COVID?

Christina Kwauk and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Members of a militia group, including Michael John Null and Willam Grant Null (R) who were charged October 8, 2020 for their involvement in a plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, attack the state capitol building and incite violence, stand near the doors to the chamber in the capitol building before the vote on the extension of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's emergency declaration/stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Seth Herald/File Photo

What does the plot against Gov. Whitmer tell us about right-wing domestic terrorism?

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), it was announced shortly after midnight on Friday, October 2, 2020. They are seen leaving the White House to attend the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Photo by Ken Cedeno/Pool/Sipa USANo Use UK. No Use Germany.

The president has COVID-19. Now what?

John Hudak and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 2, 2020