The Pentagon is finally poised for a spending hike in March that could bankroll increased troop training and equipment maintenance, but the wrangling on Capitol Hill has delayed its annual budget by more than five months. Now, military leaders worry they might not have enough time in the remaining months of the fiscal year to […]
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Grandmother Foils Alleged School Shooting Plot in Washington State…
Authorities arrested an 18-year-old in Washington State Tuesday whose grandmother discovered a journal with detailed plans to shoot his high school classmates, police said. Police arrested Joshua Alexander O’Connor, 18, at ACES High School on Tuesday on multiple charges, including attempted murder, the Associated Press reported. O’Connor’s grandmother called 911 Tuesday morning after noticing a […]
Criminal Justice Overhaul Advances Amid Grassley-Sessions Spat…
A bipartisan criminal justice bill easily won approval from the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, amid a rare public clash on the plan between Chairman Chuck Grassley and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The legislation from Grassley (R-Iowa) and Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cleared the Judiciary panel on a 16-5 vote. Six of the […]
Russia Slams Report of “Hundreds of Russian Fighters” Killed in Syria as Fake News…
Two days after Bloomberg reported that over 100 Russian fighters – mercenaries fighting on behalf of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad – were killed in Syria on February 7 by US air strikes – the Russian foreign ministry slammed these reports about alleged “dozens” or “hundreds” killed Russian military servicemen in Syria as “classic disinformation” that […]
Sessions: Senate Amnesty Is ‘Mad Rush of Illegality’…
The immigration grand bargain the Senate will vote on as early as Thursday afternoon would “invite a mad rush of illegality,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday. Mr. Sessions said the deal would grant a future amnesty for illegal immigrants who haven’t even arrived in the U.S. yet, so those who can get into the […]
Senate Deal Grants Amnesty to FUTURE ILLEGALS…
The Senate’s new immigration compromise not only grants legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before, but creates a new future amnesty that would even protect illegal immigrants who managed to sneak into the U.S. over the next four months, experts said. Not only would the bill enshrine Obama-era deportation rules, protecting […]
Court Orders Restoration of DACA Program…
A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that the government must restart the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty, adding more weight to the legal case against President Trump’s phaseout of the program just as Congress is debating the fate of “Dreamers” on Capitol Hill. Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis said the administration […]
Preliminary Findings on U.S. Diplomats’ Health Problems in Cuba: Real But Still a Mystery…
Two University of Pennsylvania researchers who examined diplomatic personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Havana confirm they suffered brain injuries, but said the cases weren’t accompanied by head trauma as would have been expected. There are still no indications of what may have caused the diplomats’ mysterious symptoms. The report, published Wednesday in The Journal […]
FBI Director Wray Says the Whole of Chinese Society Is a Threat to the U.S….
FBI Director Christopher Wray reiterated a commonly held view on Tuesday that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional means — but he framed the threat China poses to the US as not just a governmental one, but a societal one. Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other […]
No Deal Between U.S. Allies on How to Deal with Foreign Islamic State Militants…
Countries allied with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group failed on Tuesday to come to a final agreement on what to do with foreign militants captured in Syria who could pose a security threat if they were to escape justice. A meeting with around a dozen of defence ministers […]
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UPDATE: U.S. Strikes Kill 100 Russian Fighters in Syria…RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS THIS REPORT BY BLOOMBERG AND REUTERS FAKE NEWS…
Following up to last night’s bombshell report that at least two Russian mercenary fighters in Syria had been killed by US-led coalition forces, this morning Bloomberg is out with an exclusive, according to which the body count is far greater than had been disclosed: U.S. forces reportedly killed “scores” of Russian contract soldiers in Syria […]
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U.S. Dispatches More Military Aid to Kurds in Syria…
The Arabic-language Enab Baladi reported that the US convoy was dispatched to the Kurdish-held regions in Syria’s Hasaka via Simalka border-crossing at border with Iraq. Enab Baladi reported that the convoy, containing fifty trucks, has arrived in Rojava in Northern Syria. A Commander of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) said last week that the US […]
Tip-Off Received on Al-Nusra, White Helmets Plotting Chemical Weapons Provocation in Syria…
Russia’s Center for Reconciliation in Syria says it’s been warned that Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorists brought in chlorine containers to a local village, where they aimed to work with the White Helmets to stage “a provocation.” Late on Monday, the center received a phone call from a resident of the village of Serakab in Idlib province […]
Iranian UAV that Entered Israeli Airspace Seems to Be American Stealth Knock-Off…
The Iranian drone shot down by the Israeli Air Force early Saturday morning appears to have been a relatively new stealth model whose design was stolen from an American unmanned aerial vehicle that was captured by Iran in 2011, according to aviation analysts. On Saturday night, the Israel Defense Forces released photographs of the destroyed […]
McConnell: GOP Immigration Plan ‘Best Chance’ at Passing Bill…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is throwing his support behind a GOP proposal that lines up with President Trump’s immigration framework, as the chamber turns to a battle over the controversial issue. “I support the president’s proposal and my colleagues’ legislation to implement it. The Secure and Succeed Act is fair, address both sides’ […]
U.S. Finally Admits “No Evidence” Assad Used Sarin Gas…
Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people in attacks in 2013 and 2017. The most recent accusation provoked a massive Tomahawk strike ordered by President Trump that was quite […]
This Isn’t Good: Russian Fighters Killed in Clash with U.S.-Led Coalition Forces in Syria…RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS THIS REPORT BY BLOOMBERG AND REUTERS FAKE NEWS…
With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably with this weekend’s outright attack by Israel on Syria, allegedly in retaliation […]
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U.S.-Led Coalition Airstrikes Mistakenly Kill 300 Kurdish Fighters in Eastern Syria…
The Turkish-language Daily Sabah reported that the warplanes pounded mistakenly a main positon of the YPG, killing a sum of 300 Kurds. The Daily further said that wrong peculiarities provided by the field sources were the cause behind the US careless air raid on the YPG. In the meantime, the Arabic-language al-Manar TV also confirmed […]
Jeff Sessions: FBI Needs ‘to have a fresh start’…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he believes the FBI has an opportunity to win the American people’s confidence back after two years of controversy that began with former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server right before the 2016 presidential election. Sessions sat down with the Washington Examiner in the Western […]
New York: More Than 100 Public Defenders Walk Out in Protest of Clients Detainment by ICE…
More than 100 public defenders — attorneys for people who can’t afford lawyers — walked out Thursday in protest of their clients getting detained by federal immigration officers. The civil disobedience happened at the courthouse in the Bronx, with the attorneys saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement has adopted new standard operating procedures under President Donald […]
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