Stephanie Zable is a graduate of University of Michigan Law School and Johns Hopkins SAIS concentrating in strategic studies. Prior to law school, she lived in China for four years and spent a year traveling through Europe and Asia. She graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in math and politics.
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President Trump agreed to a six-month delay on auto tariffs to be applied to close U.S. allies, including European nations and Japan, reported the New York Times.
The U.S. has reached an agreement to lift tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Mexico and Canada, said Politico.
President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is planning to travel to Ukraine to encourage the country’s president-elect to pursue investigations into the Mueller investigation and a transaction involving Joe Biden’s son, revealed the New York Times. The Times reported that the trip was part of an effort to discredit the Mueller investigation as well as undermine Biden’s presidential candidacy.
The FBI sent an investigator posed as a research assistant to Professor Stefan Halper to question George Papadopoulos about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in September 2016, according to the New York Times.
President Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday to discuss a U.S.-Japanese trade deal, reported the New York Times. Key areas of discussion are expected to include the threatened U.S. tariffs on automobiles, a critical export for Japan, as well as U.S. access to the Japanese beef market. American farmers fear that U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal has left them at a competitive disadvantage.
As the competition for 5G continues, one of the largest players, Chinese company Huawei Technologies, is facing concerns from numerous countries that using Huawei equipment exposes their national networks to spying or worse by the Chinese government.
In January 2019, France, Germany, and Britain announced the creation of a new payment-processing system designed to keep alive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran deal.
In August, two convicted terrorists were released from prison unexpectedly early. The two originally received enhanced sentences under a statute that established mandatory minimum sentence extensions for the use of a firearm in conjunction with a violent felony, but the judge who released them held that the statute was unconstitutional under Sessions v. Dimaya, a case the Supreme Court decided in April.