In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

We know that weapons, heavy weapons continue to flow across the border from Russia into Ukraine. And we have now, in recent days, indications that Russians - Russian military units themselves have, on occasion, fired into Ukraine.

Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.