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Sep 02 2019
News
Trump Administration Officials at Odds Over C.I.A.’s Role in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Senior White House advisers have proposed secretly expanding the C.I.A.’s presence in Afghanistan if international forces begin to withdraw from the country, according to American officials. But C.I.A. and military officials have expressed reservations, prompting a debate in the administration that could complicate negotiations with the Taliban to end the war.
Some
New York Times (News)Apr 19 2015
News
Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States
To wage war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is using F-15 fighter jets bought from Boeing. Pilots from the United Arab Emirates are flying Lockheed Martin’s F-16 to bomb both Yemen and Syria. Soon, the Emirates are expected to complete a deal with General Atomics for a fleet of Predator drones to run spying missions in their neighborhood.
As the Middle East descends into proxy wars, sectarian
New York Times (News)Apr 16 2015
News
Yemen crisis: Al-Qaeda seizes southern airport
Militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have seized an airport in southern Yemen, officials say. Troops guarding the site in the major port city of Mukalla, Hadramawt province, have fled, they said. AQAP has exploited the chaos gripping the country, overrunning Mukalla earlier this month and freeing inmates from a prison. A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Shia Houthi
BBC NewsApr 22 2013
News
Interrogation Delayed
The world is waiting for alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to recover from injuries sustained.
TownhallMar 10 2021
Opinion
The Miseducation of the American Boy
Iknew nothing about Cole before meeting him; he was just a name on a list of boys at a private school outside Boston who had volunteered to talk with me (or perhaps had had their arm twisted a bit by a counselor). The afternoon of our first interview, I was running late. As I rushed down a hallway at the school, I noticed a boy sitting outside the library, waiting—it had to be him. He was
The AtlanticMay 08 2019
News
This Is How Iran Just Trashed Another Obama Foreign Policy Initiative
Well, this is only news in the sense that Iran now has officially declared that they will no longer comply with some of the provisions in the coveted international nuclear agreement that was touted by the Obama administration. It was a trash agreement. It always was—and it didn’t prevent the nation from acquiring nuclear weapons. On the contrary, once the deal expired in 10-15 years, the
TownhallFeb 07 2015
News
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Perfect Response When Asked About Women On The Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dropped a truth bomb during a discussion at Georgetown University earlier this week.
The 81-year-old Supreme Court justice, who has attained somewhat of a cult following for her stance on gender equality, told a gathering of law students Wednesday that people often ask her when she thinks there will be enough women on the court.
"And my answer is when there
HuffPostApr 22 2013
News
No Gun Licenses for Marathon Bombers
The AP reports that the men who detonated explosives to kill innocents at the Boston did not have gun licences.
TownhallJul 08 2023
Headline Roundup
Several European Partners Will not Join US in Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
Several European NATO members said they would not be joining the Biden Administration’s “difficult decision” to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions.
The Details: As of Saturday, Spain, Germany, Canada, and the U.K. said they won’t send cluster munitions to Ukraine, citing commitments to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which 111 countries have signed. Nine NATO states have not
Politico Reuters Daily MailMar 19 2021
News
Yes, Capitol Rioters Were Armed. Here Are The Weapons Prosecutors Say They Used
In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a popular narrative has emerged: that because rioters did not fire guns that day, they were not really "armed."
But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional
NPR (Online News)