MARCH 7, 2019
China has praised Pakistan for its handling of the tense situation with India, appreciating Islamabad’s “restraint” in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir in February.
The Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday released a statement in Chinese following the visit of vice-foreign minister Kong Xuanyou to Pakistan, lauding Islamabad’s response.
“China has paid close attention...
MARCH 6, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. - Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a post today (March 6) outlining what he calls a “privacy-focused vision for social networking.” That sounds nice, until you realize that his definition of “privacy” is…...
MARCH 6, 2019
President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
The President's crusade to grant clearances to his daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, rankled West Wing officials.
While Trump...
MARCH 6, 2019
Plastic bag contamination is trashing recycling programs - WUSA9
The world’s recycling market has been flipped on its financial head, and the impact has finally reached your curbside.
In small towns from Virginia to New Hampshire, local leaders are looking at the numbers and beginning to pull the plug.
Meanwhile, the major jurisdictions around the Washington D.C. area remain committed...
MARCH 6, 2019
When anti-government protests erupted on Russia’s side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something they’d never done before: cut mobile internet service to an entire geographical area.
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of mainly Muslim Russians were prevented from accessing social media sites and sharing videos through their smartphones. Unlike China, where control of...
MARCH 5, 2019
A portrait of Donald Trump hangs on the wall at the New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., in this 2016 photo. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order...
MARCH 5, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White House Counsel's Office is refusing to release documents requested by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform related to its issuance of security clearances, teeing up a potential subpoena battle between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
In a letter addressed to Chairman Elijah Cummings on Monday, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said...
MARCH 5, 2019
Kim Jong Un arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 5, 2019 after his summit with President Donald Trump in Vietnam. - North Korean state media via BBC Monitoring
Kim Jong Un returned home to a hero's welcome from his 60-hour train ride from Vietnam after his summit with President Donald Trump.
He arrived in Pyongyang at 3...
MARCH 5, 2019
Ty Cobb, the veteran Washington attorney who represented the White House as special counsel Robert Mueller ramped up his investigation into Russian meddling, said he considers the man leading the probe “an American hero” and does not share President Donald Trump’s view that the Russia inquiry is a politically motivated hoax.
“I don't feel the same way about...
MARCH 5, 2019
Inside the cave of the ancient Jaguar God
Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual objects—untouched for more than a thousand years—in a series of cave chambers that may hold clues to the rise and fall...
