Month: October 2019

Getty Images Earlier this week, a family of 7 was discovered living in a hidden room in the basement of a farmhouse in a rural area of the Netherlands Neighbors in the small town of Ruinerwold told Insider they had no idea the family was living there. One member of the family, 25-year-old Jan Zon…

From Car and Driver Muscle Cars and Trucks noticed a 2023-mile odometer reading in press photos of the 2020 Dodge Challenger, which they and others thought could signal that the next generation’s release is in 2023. Dodge is a frequent user of teasers to reveal upcoming cars, but a Dodge spokesperson told C/D this is…

U.S. immigration authorities have discovered hundreds of instances at the border of “family unit fraud,” or unrelated individuals posing as families, over the last six months thanks to a new investigative initiative. Authorities exposed 238 fraudulent families presenting 329 false documents, according to the results of an investigation run by Border Patrol and Immigration and…

As Donald Trump flew to Texas Thursday for a fundraiser and rally, the revelations about the President’s involvement in Ukraine escalated into a full-fledged crisis. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, undercut the President’s denial of a quid pro quo when he told reporters that Trump withheld military aid as leverage to…

While discussing France and Germany’s joint development with France of the FCAS sixth-generation stealth fighter in March 2019, the new head of Germany’s governing CDU party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer raised eyebrows with her suggestion of a chaser. “As a next step, we could start the symbolic project of building an aircraft carrier to give shape to…

Donald Trump lavished praise Thursday on his “friend” and “hell of a leader”  Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the Turkish president launched an incursion into northeast Syria. Trump said the Turks needed to have a swath of Syria “cleaned out” after battling with Syrian Kurds there.  Trump spoke after Turkey announced a five-day “pause” in fighting in Syria negotiated by Vice…

(Bloomberg) — Kurdish fighters say they have no intention of withdrawing from Syria’s entire northeastern border — but that’s exactly what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects to happen under the cease-fire accord brokered by the U.S. on Thursday. The conflicting interpretations point to the fragility of the five-day truce deal, which is already being…

BERLIN (Reuters) – A 93-year-old former concentration camp guard arrived in court in a wheelchair on Thursday, in what could be one of Germany’s last trials of Nazi war crimes. Bruno D., whose surname cannot be given for legal reasons, is accused of being an accessory to 5,230 murders in the final months of World…

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything. She just doesn’t want you to know all the details. The Massachusetts senator—now a front-runner in the Democratic presidential race—backs the hugely expensive Medicare for all plan, which would cover every American. But she refuses to acknowledge it would require large tax increases on most voters. Instead, Warren keeps saying…

Former Vice President Joe Biden dodged some of the piling on from other 2020 candidates he has seen in previous Democratic debates, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren took on a lot of that heat on Tuesday. Biden thinks that’s a good thing, but questioned Warren’s standing as a frontrunner in comments to reporters in Ohio on…