Month: December 2019

KEY WEST, Fla. — Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone can be saved. And in some places, it doesn’t even make sense to try. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey On Wednesday…

REUTERS/Mike Segar Republicans displayed three massive signs behind their seats at a hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday. While Republicans have brought signs to other hearings during the inquiry, this time all three signs used Democrats’ own words to defend Trump.  They used quotes from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep.…

By David Morgan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three legal experts told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival amounted to impeachable offenses, in a hearing that laid the groundwork for formal charges to be filed against the president. Watch the impeachment hearing live,…

Key Point: Costoverruns and a failure to match the ship with a proper weapons system has people scratching their heads on what the Zumwalt-class destroyers are actually useful for. In January 2019, the Navy will commission its second hi-tech Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor. The third and last, USS Lyndon B. Johnson was launched…

Key point: 2024 is the new projected deployment date for the Navy’s latest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy’s new aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford might not be able to deploy until 2024. That’s years later than the Navy originally expected. The delay could further inhibit the ability of the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet to deploy…

The prosecutor Attorney General William Barr personally appointed to oversee the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation is reportedly unable to provide evidence to support the right-wing conspiracy theory that the investigation was a setup by U.S. intelligence officials. U.S. Attorney John Durham told Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz that he has…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday his government will seek to strengthen cooperation with the United States to control the flow of “arms and dollars” during meetings this week with U.S. Attorney General William Barr. “Two issues that must be discussed are the introduction of arms and dollars,…

Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Attorney General William Barr said in a speech Tuesday that communities may lose the “police protection they need” if they don’t show respect for officers. Barr was speaking at a Justice Department ceremony honoring police officers, but chastised Americans failing to recognize the “sacrifice and service” of police. Barr’s remarks…

The wealth of Zimbabwe’s former longtime president Robert Mugabe was long a mystery. Now the first official list of assets to be made public says he left behind $10 million and several houses when he died in September. Some in Zimbabwe view that estate as far too modest for Mugabe, who ruled for 37 years and was accused…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —  Slogging through snow showers and slush, hundreds of Harvard University graduate student workers picketed Tuesday at Harvard Yard, as thousands went on strike seeking higher pay and other demands. It marked the first strike of graduate students on the Ivy League campus since 1973, when teaching fellows and  protested the university’s financial aid program. Dining hall workers staged…