Month: December 2019

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. Click Here:…

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…

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk’s defamation trial could be in the hands of jury by the end of Thursday after the billionaire and the diver who is suing him sparred over the meaning and impact of a “pedo guy” tweet at the heart of the case. British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth testified on Wednesday he…

A British diver who helped rescue a dozen boys trapped in a cave in Thailand fought back tears as he told a court Elon Musk’s “pedo guy” slur amounted to “a life sentence with no parole”. Vernon Unsworth choked up on Wednesday as he testified against the Tesla CEO during a defamation trial in Los…

At least two people have been killed as a gunman opened fire at the US Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, according to base officials. A third person has been wounded in the shooting and the gunman, thought to be a US Navy sailor, has shot himself dead. The three victims were described in local…

HONOLULU (AP) — A sailor shot three civilians, killing two of them, before taking his own life at Pearl Harbor just days before thousands were scheduled to gather at the storied military base to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese bombing that launched the U.S. into World War II. Rear Adm. Robert Chadwick, the…