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Sep 10 2013
News
Intel clashes with Obama's election-year al Qaeda claims
As President Obama ran to election victory last fall with claims that al Qaeda was decimated and on the run, his intelligence team was privately offering a different assessment - that the terrorist movement was shifting resources and capabilities to emerging spinoff groups in Africa that posed fresh threats to American security.
Washington TimesMar 22 2020
Background
Asia
Asia (/ˈeɪʒə, ˈeɪʃə/ (About this soundlisten)) is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres (17,212,000 sq mi), about 30% of Earth's
WikipediaNov 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
Which Midterm Election Issues Are Searched More in Your State?
Election Day is upon us, and there are many issues that are top-of-mind for voters: inflation, abortion, and crime to name a few.
According to Google Trends, here are some of the top issues and their relative search term popularity compared to the total number of Google searches performed on that topic.
Note that the highest search interest in each map is “100,” and “50” is
Andrew WeinzierlFeb 04 2022
Analysis
Peak everything — growth, inflation and COVID — may soon mean calmer markets ahead, economist says
For better or worse, we’re at the summit — of everything.
Andy Cates, senior economist at Haver Analytics, in a presentation said it’s looking like the world is simultaneously reaching peak COVID, peak growth and peak inflation.
“Many of the macroeconomic drivers of asset prices in recent times are peaking and either already moving into reverse or about to move into reverse,” he
MarketWatchAug 18 2021
Opinion
China outflanking US in the wake of Biden’s Afghan debacle
Great-power competition is back — just when America happens to be an overstretched, and now-humiliated, empire. Events in the wake of President Joe Biden’s botched exit from Afghanistan punctuate the point.
China wasted little time seizing on the debacle to make geopolitical inroads and assert a growing hegemony in the Asia-Pacific. The Beijing regime moved to develop relations with the
New York Post (News)Jun 06 2022
News
DeSantis beats Trump in conservative group straw poll for 2024 nomination
Conservative activists in Colorado have again placed Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, a rising star in Republican circles, above former president Donald Trump in their preference for their party’s 2024 presidential nomination.
DeSantis won 71% of the vote to the former president’s 67% in the straw poll, which was taken during the weekend’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver and
The GuardianJun 06 2022
News
How a billionaire mall magnate pulled ahead in the Los Angeles mayoral race
For decades, billionaire Rick Caruso has quietly wielded influence and curried political capital in one of the nation’s most sprawling and diverse metropolises. Now, he wants to cash in that clout for the top job in city hall.
At 63, Caruso has spent most of his adult life as a Republican, developing some of Los Angeles’ most iconic luxury shopping centers and helming several
PoliticoNov 23 2020
News
Cooper’s Office Now Claims He Meant To Say All Republicans Are Racist, Not Mentally Disabled
Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper is backtracking on his comments likening South Carolina Republican voters to people with Down syndrome and saying he has done it “for years.”
“I’ve said for years that they have extra chromosomes, South Carolina voters,” he said in a recent interview published in The Nashville Scene.“Anybody who could re-elect Lindsey Graham after his two-faced performance on
The FederalistMay 27 2022
Analysis
What's the point of Biden's Indo-Pacific Economic Framework?
The IPEF is a U.S.-driven proposal intended to foster strong relationships among participating countries and "create a stronger, fairer, more resilient economy for families, workers, and businesses in the United States and in the Indo-Pacific region," the White House said. Member countries, aside from the U.S., include Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New
The Week - NewsApr 14 2022
News
Russian navy evacuates badly damaged flagship in Black Sea. Ukraine claims it was hit by a missile
One of the Russian Navy's most important warships has been badly damaged in the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50 days into Vladimir Putin's invasion of his neighbor.
Russian sailors evacuated the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, after a fire that detonated ammunition aboard, Russia's defense ministry
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