Month: December 2019

China Built The DF-26 Missile To Take Down America's Prized Aircraft Carriers

Key point: Anti-ship missiles pose a growing threat to America’s navy. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) commissioned the DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) into service earlier this year in April. “The newly commissioned weaponry of the Rocket Force is Dongfeng-26 missile,” Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for China Ministry of National Defense, told…

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Activists apologize for use of Holocaust victims’ remains

BERLIN (AP) — An activist group has apologized to Jewish organizations outraged over their use of purported Holocaust victims’ remains in an installation outside Germany’s parliament building meant to draw attention to the perils of far-right extremism. The Center for Political Beauty, a Germany-based activist group known for provocative stunts, installed an urn outside the…

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Amid impeachment drama, Trump lawyer Giuliani back in Ukraine

Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani returned to Ukraine Wednesday, shrugging off the scandal over seeking dirt from Kiev on rival Democrats. The New York Times said Giuliani had traveled to Budapest on Tuesday and Kiev Wednesday to speak with former Ukrainian prosecutors who could have information that would support Trump’s…

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State Department pressured to turn over impeachment documents from potential Giuliani-Pompeo call

WASHINGTON — As Congress weighs evidence in an impeachment investigation into President Trump, a government transparency organization is using the court system to accelerate the release of documents that could prove critical to that probe. The organization, American Oversight, has already won the release of 100 pages of State Department documents relevant to the impeachment…

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Notes of Investigators Fill in Details of Key Events Examined by Mueller

WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, told federal investigators that another lawyer representing Trump dismissed his warnings that a letter to Congress describing discussions between Russian officials and representatives of the Trump Organization about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow omitted key details, newly released memos show. “Cohen said there were…

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