Each dot represents $100,000 in U.S. taxpayer dollars, according to a visualization created by Columbia and Duke graduate Will Geary, a data scientist and assistant professor at The Pratt Institute in New York. "U.S. aid to Ukraine totals $68 billion, and in November the White House asked Congress for another $38 billion," Geary Tweeted. "This would bring the total amount appropriated for Ukraine to over $100 billion."
The Biden administration is set to allow nearly 65,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to take on nonagricultural jobs in the United States over the next nine months.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced bipartisan legislation to ban China's popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the app could be used to spy on Americans and censure content.
The State Department has now designated 12 “Countries of Particular Concern” and placed four more on a “Special Watch List” under the International Religious Freedom Act “for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”