| US kills Iran's most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike Posted: 02 Jan 2020 03:27 PM PST  The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran's proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region. The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the region and spiral into a far larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond.
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| FBI Investigators Say McCabe Apologized for Lying about Clinton-Probe Leak Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:14 AM PST  FBI investigators claim former deputy director Andrew McCabe admitted to misleading them about his involvement in a media leak and subsequently apologized for the lie, according to newly released transcripts of McCabe's interviews with investigators.The transcripts, released by the Department of Justice Inspector General's office (OIG) — which found McCabe "lacked candor" with investigators in a scathing February 2018 report — detail how McCabe spun a false narrative that he was not responsible for leaking the information cited in a October 2016 Wall Street Journal article that detailed a new probe into Hillary Clinton's email use.Obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by government-watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the documents, first reported by the Daily Beast, describe McCabe's reversal. Initially, the former deputy director told bureau investigators in May 2017 that he was "disappointed" the story "was appearing in the publication," and was not sure how it leaked to the press.McCabe also denied that he had authorized the article, which included a conversation between himself and a top Obama DOJ official, and presented himself as a "victim" to the agent interviewing him, who at the time "wasn't surprised by his response."But in a follow-up interview on August 18, 2017, after investigators received "conflicting information" in other interviews, McCabe admitted that he had in fact authorized the leak."I need to know from you did you authorize this article? Were you aware of it? Did you authorize it?" the FBI agent said he asked McCabe at the time."And as nice as could be, he said, yep. Yep I did," McCabe said, surprising the agents. "Things had suddenly changed 180 degrees with this," one of the agents present recounted to the OIG.When the agents showed McCabe the portion of his statement from the May interview which stated "I do not know the identity of the source of the information contained in the article. I gave no authority to share any information relative to my interaction with the DOJ executive with any member of the media," McCabe replied that he "didn't ever remember seeing this before.""I told him, I said we sent it to you at least three times or two times," the agent said. And an email record mentioned in the transcript shows the statement was emailed to McCabe on May 12, 2017. McCabe's explanation at the time was "there was a lot going on."In its February 2018 report, the OIG detailed how McCabe had told former FBI special counsel Lisa Page to speak to the Journal, stating that McCabe's intent was "an attempt to make himself look good" after a previous article detailed how McCabe's wife had received nearly $500,000 from a Clinton ally to run for office in Virginia.The OIG also found McCabe's explanation for the discrepancy in his statements to be "wholly unpersuasive," because it was "highly implausible" that McCabe forgot to tell the FBI of the approved leak in May."We therefore concluded that when McCabe told INSD in May that he did not know who authorized the disclosure to the WSJ, it was not due to a lack of memory. In our view, the evidence is substantial that it was done knowingly and intentionally," the OIG wrote.Following the report, McCabe was fired by former attorney general Jeff Sessions.The DOJ is currently mulling charges against McCabe, who was made a CNN analyst in August, after the OIG recommended the charges. The former FBI deputy director is suing the FBI and the DOJ over his firing and has denied intentionally making false statements about his role in the media leaks.
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| 'People Do Not Like the Unknown.' Here's What To Know About The Mystery Drones Hovering Over Rural Colorado and Nebraska Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:50 AM PST  Sightings of mysterious drones have been reported over night skies in rural Colorado and Nebraska. Officials are searching for answers.
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| Here's how much each 2020 candidate raised in the 4th quarter Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:06 PM PST  Bernie Sanders raised more than any of the other 2020 Democratic candidates in a single quarter — $34.5 million.
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| U.S. consulate warns employees as gun battles rock Mexican border city Posted: 01 Jan 2020 10:39 PM PST  The United States consulate in Mexico's border city of Nuevo Laredo issued a security alert on Wednesday, warning against gun battles and urging government employees to take precautions. Gun battles have killed at least three people this week in the northern city bordering the Texas city of Laredo, media have said. It one of the Mexican cities where the U.S. government has sent asylum seekers to wait as their cases are decided.
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| Cult connections? Man links 'radical' religious group to his attempted murder in Arizona and 2 missing children in Idaho Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:56 AM PST  Around the time Idaho siblings Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan disappeared, one of their relatives was targeted in a shooting near Phoenix.
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| Truck drivers in California detested a new law that just went into effect — but a federal judge ruled at the last minute that it doesn't apply to them Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:13 AM PST  Hours before AB5 went into effect, a federal judge temporarily prevented the state from enforcing the law against independent truck drivers.
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| Nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia's devastating bushfires Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:29 AM PST  An estimated 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles, are believed to have died in Australian bushfires since September.
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| Hashed deputy al-Muhandis: Iran's man in Baghdad Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:41 PM PST  Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed early Friday in a US strike on Baghdad, was seen as Tehran's man in Iraq and a sworn enemy of the United States. The US strike on Baghdad's international airport early Friday also killed his personal friend Qasem Soleimani, a top commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. The men both died in a strike on a convoy belonging to Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary force with close ties to Iran, whose deputy chief was Muhandis.
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| Trump Says Trade Signing Set For Jan. 15; China Silent Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:20 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said he will sign the first phase of a trade deal with China on Jan. 15, sealing an agreement that sees the Asian nation raising purchases of American farm goods in exchange for lower tariffs on some of its products. The date has yet to be confirmed by the Chinese side."The ceremony will take place at the White House," Trump said on his Twitter account Tuesday, adding he will be going to Beijing, where talks will begin on the second phase of the deal.Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang on Thursday referred a question on the signing to the Ministry of Commerce. The commerce ministry did not respond to an earlier fax seeking comment.Despite the lack of clarity on the signing date, Beijing is still indicating it also wants the deal. A commentary on the front page of People's Daily on Tuesday said, "it is every one's wish that China and the U.S. will sign the phase one agreement."The deal, announced Dec. 13, sees the U.S. suspending plans for new tariffs on $160 billion of Chinese imports including smart-phones and toys and reducing some existing levies. China agreed to increase its purchases of American agricultural products and has made new commitments on intellectual property protections, forced technology transfers by U.S. companies and currency practices. The move at least temporarily calms fears of an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies.The precise terms of the 86-page agreement have not been revealed. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Dec. 13 he expected to sign the accord together with his Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier Liu He, in early January in Washington, and that it would be released publicly then.(Corrects Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Miao Han and April Ma.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Margaret Collins at mcollins45@bloomberg.net, Jeffrey Black, Jiyeun LeeFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Turkish company says jets used illegally in Ghosn escape Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:02 AM PST  A Turkish airline company says its jets were used illegally in Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan. Istanbul-based MNG Jet said an employee falsified records and that Ghosn's name did not appear on any documentation related to the flights. Ghosn earlier this week jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon rather than face trial on financial misconduct charges in a dramatic escape that has confounded and embarrassed authorities.
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| One Of NATO's Greatest Fears: A Russian Invasion Of Iceland Posted: 02 Jan 2020 04:00 PM PST  Iceland has not had a military since 1869.
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| Trump has created a foreign student crisis Posted: 02 Jan 2020 03:00 AM PST  A company that spurned talent it badly needed couldn't thrive. The same is true for a country.But that isn't stopping the Trump administration from blithely driving foreign students into the open arms of other countries with its ill-advised immigration policies.For three years in a row, the number of new foreign students enrolling in American universities has fallen. In the 2015-16 academic year, 300,743 new foreign students enrolled. That number dropped to 269,383 in 2018-19, a decline of 10.4 percent as per the data of Open Doors, the Institute of International Education's (IIE) annual report that tracks university enrollments. Nor is the situation likely to improve in the academic year currently underway given that a snapshot survey of 500 universities by the IIE this fall found declining enrollment — although full stats won't be available until later in 2020.When enrollments initially started plummeting, many people blamed external factors like better educational opportunities at home or Saudi Arabia's decision to yank government scholarships from Saudi students studying abroad rather than this administration's anti-immigration agenda. While other things might have had an effect on the margin, if they were the main cause, then other countries would be experiencing a decline too. The opposite is the case.National Foundation for American Policy's Stuart Anderson points out that Canada has been attracting a record number of international students in recent years. In 2017, it experienced a 20 percent spike and then another 16 percent the following year, a phenomenon that Canadians call the "Trump bump." Meanwhile, Australia experienced a whopping 47 percent increase in new foreign students between 2015 and 2018.In particular, America is losing Chinese students while Australia is gaining them. One likely reason is that Trump has called them all spies (an absurd accusation given that that 9 out of 10 would prefer to stay on and work in America rather than return to the communist dictatorship) and threatened to ban them from the country in a naked bid to force Beijing to succumb to his trade demands. Trump didn't make good on that threat but, in 2018, he capped their visa stay to one year at a time rather than allowing them to stay for the maximum time allowed. This not only made Chinese students feel unwelcome in the United States but also made it more precarious for them to pursue an education here lest they lose their visas before finishing their program.In addition, his travel ban has of course barred foreign students from Iran and various Muslim countries.He has also proposed rules that would make it easier to brand foreign students as being "unlawfully present" and to ban them from the country for 10 years. The courts have put this rule on hold for now but the uncertainty can hardly make American universities attractive.Trump has also doubled down on sting operations to crack down on visa fraud. Last year ICE arrested 250 foreign students, mostly from India, whom it lured into the University of Farmington, a fake university that it set up in metro Detroit. For tuition fees much lower than normal, this university handed these students transcripts to satisfy the terms of their visas and, more importantly, obtain CPT (Curricular Practical Training) status. This status lets the foreign students sign up for a paid internship off campus and offset their steep tuition costs, a tempting deal because it enables them to work for more than 20 hours and get off-campus jobs. Many foreign students quit legitimate universities to join this fake one only to get caught in ICE's dragnet.But it's not just draconian enforcement tactics that are turning away foreign students. The administration's immigration policies are also making an American education an unattractive value proposition compared to other countries.Trump is doing everything in his power to make it more difficult for foreign students to work in America after they graduate, making the high-cost of an American education a bad investment. Right now, international students in highly coveted STEM fields can obtain something called the Optional Practical Training visa to work in the country for 36 months after graduation. This allows them to recover some of their tuition costs before returning home. Trump is proposing rules to cut this back dramatically.Likewise, his administration is also making it more difficult for foreign techies to work in the country long-term by rejecting new H-1B visa applications at a historically high rate. And he is making it much more difficult for those who have these visas to renew them.This is the exact opposite of what Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said the country should be doing when he ran for the presidency in 2012. He had promised to staple green cards — not just H-1Bs — to the diplomas of foreign graduates, especially in STEM fields, because it made no sense for America to lose American-trained talent to other countries. Instead, it is Canada that is running with Romney's suggestion. It is handing foreign graduates from Canadian universities many additional points when they apply for permanent residency so that they just stay in Canada rather than return to their native countries.Turning away foreign students is particularly stupid — not only because we need their skills but also their tuition dollars. Over 66 percent of them, especially undergraduates, pay top dollars for their education from out-of-pocket or through outside sources, allowing universities to subsidize tuition costs for American students. Many international graduate students, meanwhile, provide teaching and research services in exchange for a tuition reprieve, especially in STEM fields, something that allows universities to offer a more cost-effective education than if they had to hire faculty for the same jobs.Furthermore, foreign students contribute $37 billion to the American economy and create or support 450,000 jobs, according to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers, an outfit that promotes the professional development of American college officials. Indeed, without them, the shortage of Americans in STEM fields would become even more acute because there wouldn't be enough people to train Americans, generating a downward spiral of STEM scarcity.But the most vital contributions of international students are intangible. Had it not been for them, America may not have spearheaded the IT revolution. That's because 57 percent of Silicon Valley's STEM workers were born outside the country and many of them came to the United States as students and stayed on. Many iconic IT companies such as Microsoft and Google are currently being headed by foreigners who came to America as graduate students.Instead of draining the swamp, Trump is draining talent from America that other countries are eagerly sucking up. This is a formula for making them great, not America.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's "Today's best articles" newsletter here.More stories from theweek.com The booming stock market shows America is diseased Fox News segment on Soleimani strike descends into chaos as Geraldo Rivera and Brian Kilmeade clash 5 ways Iran might retaliate for America's airstrike
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| 'I had nowhere to go': Mississippi hunter battles rattlesnake in deer stand Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:38 AM PST  Hunting in December, a Mississippi man found a rattlesnake only inches away in a hunting blind. He was in a real predicament.
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| Iraqi troops secure U.S. Embassy following attack Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:15 AM PST  Elite Iraqi troops were deployed to secure the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, after a pro-Iran mob laid siege to it on Tuesday in dramatic scenes that overshadowed months of antigovernment grassroots protests.
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| Las Vegas Police Arrest Man After Apparent Kidnapping Caught on Doorbell Camera Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:46 AM PST  The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said a 23-year-old man had been arrested and charged with kidnapping and domestic battery.
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| Search for driver after video emerges of car speeding off California cliff Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:11 AM PST  Dramatic video captured by a motorist appears to show a vehicle plunging off of a cliff in California this week — but authorities have yet to find the SUV or the driver.In the video, a dark SUV can be seen speeding off of the road at a curve.
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| Iran's supreme leader warns a 'harsh retaliation is waiting' for the US, after an American airstrike killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:30 AM PST  Iranian leadership has been quick to condemn the US strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, with several issuing threats of revenge and retaliation.
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| Australia’s Wildfire Crisis: Key Numbers Behind the Disaster Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:22 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Australia is in the grip of deadly wildfires burning across the country, triggering an emotive debate about the impact of climate change in the world's driest-inhabited continent. The unprecedented scale of the crisis, and images of terrified tourists sheltering on beaches from the infernos, has shocked many Australians.With summer only just beginning and the nation affected by a prolonged drought, authorities fear the death toll will continue to mount as more homes and land are destroyed. Here are some key details of the crisis:How many people have died?Since the fire season began months ago during the southern hemisphere winter, 20 people have died and with 28 people missing in Victoria state, authorities fear the death toll will rise. Among the fatalities are volunteer firefighters, including a young man who died when his 10-ton truck was flipped over in what officials have described as a "fire tornado." Australia's worst wildfires came in 2009 when the Black Saturday blazes left 180 people dead.How big an area has burned?Massive tracts of land have burned. More than 12 million acres (5 million hectares) have been destroyed -- that's more than twice the size of Wales, and larger than Denmark. In New South Wales state alone, 8.9 million acres of forest and bush has been destroyed, while more than 1.8 million acres has been burned in Victoria. The fires are so large they are generating their own weather systems and causing dry lightning strikes that in turn ignite more. One blaze northwest of Sydney, the Gospers Mountain fire, has destroyed more than 1.2 million acres -- about seven times the size of Singapore.The scale of the blazes dwarfs the California wildfires in 2018, which destroyed about 1.7 million acres, and about 260,000 acres in 2019.How many homes have been destroyed?Some 1,365 homes have been destroyed in New South Wales alone this fire season and the tally is rising daily as the fires continue to burn and authorities assess damage. Scores of rural towns have been impacted, including the community of Balmoral about 150 kilometers southwest of Sydney, which was largely destroyed before Christmas.What's the economic impact?That's still to be assessed. The Insurance Council of Australia says 5,259 claims worth A$321 million ($224 million) have been lodged. Consultancy SGS Economics and Planning has estimated that Sydney's economy loses as much as A$50 million each day it is blanketed with a toxic haze from smoke billowing in from the fires. An inquiry into the Black Saturday fires estimated the cost at A$4.4 billion. More broadly, the economy faces pressure from increasingly severe heat and storms from climate change, threatening industries ranging from agriculture to property to tourism. Australia's Climate Council estimates cumulative damage from reduced agricultural and labor productivity might reach A$19 billion by 2030, A$211 billion by 2050 and a massive A$4 trillion by 2100.How has wildlife been affected?The University of Sydney estimates that 480 million animals have been killed by the bushfires in New South Wales alone since September. The "highly conservative figure" includes mammals, birds and reptiles killed either directly by the fires, or later due to loss of food and habitat. The fires have raised concerns in particular about koalas, with authorities saying as much as 30% of their habitat in some areas had been destroyed. Images of the marsupials drinking water from bottles after being rescued have gone viral on social media.\--With assistance from Jason Scott.To contact the reporter on this story: Edward Johnson in Sydney at ejohnson28@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Edward Johnson at ejohnson28@bloomberg.net, Jason ScottFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 3 Passports and a Plan Hatched in Lebanon: Ghosn's Escape Act Posted: 01 Jan 2020 11:45 AM PST  TOKYO -- By the time most of Japan had woken up on Tuesday, he was gone. One of the country's most famous criminal suspects had slipped past the cameras trained on his house, past the police and border guards and the Japanese citizens who for the past year have followed his every move.Carlos Ghosn, the deposed chief of the Nissan and Renault auto empire facing charges of financial wrongdoing, had fled to Lebanon, and no one in Japan -- not the authorities, the media or even the auto executive's own lawyer -- could explain how it had happened."I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'" Ghosn's lawyer in Tokyo, Junichiro Hironaka, told a crush of 40 reporters outside his office on Tuesday.It was a cinematic escape, carried out just before New Year's Day, Japan's most important holiday, when government agencies and most businesses close for as long as a week.The escape appeared to have been planned in Lebanon. A lawyer for Ghosn in Beirut played a lead role putting the plan together and acted as the go-between with the Lebanese government, one person familiar with the matter said.An official in Beirut said Ghosn had entered the country using a French passport, while at least one Lebanese outlet reported, without offering proof, that the former Nissan chairman had been spirited out inside a box meant for musical equipment.He chose refuge in Lebanon, where he grew up and has been treated as a folk hero since his 2018 arrest in Japan. A Lebanese newspaper reported that Ghosn had arrived in Beirut on a private plane from Turkey. After landing there, he released a statement assailing the "rigged Japanese justice system where guilt is presumed, discrimination is rampant, and basic human rights are denied."In the statement, he said he was ready to tell his story to the media "starting next week." A public relations professional has been dispatched from the United States to Beirut to help organize a news conference, the person familiar with the matter said.Government officials in Japan were still trying to piece together the facts of the escape, as the aggressive local media scrambled for clues. Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan. Some politicians in Japan wondered whether shadowy figures or even a foreign government had been involved in his escape.On Twitter, Masahisa Sato, a member of the upper house of Japan's Parliament and a former top Foreign Ministry official, asked whether Ghosn "had the support of some country" in his departure."It's a huge problem that his illegal escape from Japan was allowed so easily," he wrote.The former governor of Tokyo, Yoichi Masuzoe, accused the Lebanese Embassy of helping to smuggle Ghosn out."It's a diplomat's work to exfiltrate Lebanon's national hero," he wrote, providing no evidence. Calls to the Lebanese Embassy went unanswered.Apparently caught flat-footed, Japanese prosecutors rushed to ask a Tokyo court to rescind Ghosn's bail, according to national broadcaster NHK, possibly leaving him to forfeit the $9 million that he had paid for the privilege of living outside jail while he awaited trial.Ghosn had turned over his passports to his lawyer, as a court had ordered, while he prepared for trial living in an elegant neighborhood in central Tokyo.His lawyer, too, seemed dumbfounded by the Houdini-like disappearance.Addressing the reporters outside his Tokyo office, Hironaka said Ghosn's departure was "totally unexpected."There had been no sign that Ghosn was preparing to flee, Hironaka said. To the contrary, he added, everything suggested that Ghosn had been preparing to defend himself in court.Ghosn's bail conditions limited his phone use, and he spent most of his days in his lawyer's office, the only place he was allowed to use the internet. For months, he had been commuting from his home to meet with his lawyers and prepare for his trial.All the while, a court-ordered camera monitored his doorway, recording his comings and goings. Whenever he went out, he suspected that authorities and private investigators from Nissan followed him around the city, according to people familiar with the matter.Ghosn spoke with his wife, Carole, for about an hour Dec. 24, Hironaka said. Prosecutors had asked a judge to forbid the couple to contact each other over concerns that they might conspire to tamper with evidence or witnesses. The court had kept the couple from communicating for months, Hironaka said, and they had spoken only twice since Ghosn was rearrested in April.Nevertheless, Ghosn stayed in touch with his family. His daughter Maya visited him in Tokyo, according to people familiar with his movements. And his outings with his children would occasionally be reported by the Japanese press or pop up on social media, where commentators speculated about his welfare.Hironaka said the legal team spent Christmas Day in court discussing preparations for Ghosn's trial, which was expected to take place sometime in 2020.The team had planned to regroup Jan. 7 for the first strategy session of the new year.All three of Ghosn's passports were in his lawyers' possession, Hironaka said. It was one of the conditions of his bail, which his lawyers had won only after repeated, hard-fought attempts to convince the court that their client, with all of his wealth and power, was not a flight risk."He left his things here," Hironaka told reporters. "It would have been difficult for him to do this without the assistance of some large organization."Ghosn's defense team had repeatedly spoken out about what it described as a "hostage justice" system, complaining that Japanese courts and prosecutors had put him at an almost impossible disadvantage as he sought to defend himself."I wanted to prove he was innocent," Hironaka said Tuesday. "But when I saw his statement in the press, I thought, 'He doesn't trust Japan's courts.'"The Japanese media rushed for clues as well, but news outlets were hampered by skeleton staffs and closed government offices before New Year's Day. NHK reported that border control officials in Japan and Lebanon had no record of Ghosn's leaving the country, speculating that he may have used a fake passport and an assumed name.But in Lebanon, the minister for presidential affairs, Salim Jreissati, said late Tuesday that Ghosn had "entered the country legally using his French passport and Lebanese ID."He said the Lebanese government had not been notified in advance of his arrival, adding, "We were all surprised."The government has nothing to do with his decision to come," he said. "We don't know the circumstances of his arrival."In France, a deputy minister for economy and finance, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, said she had learned about Ghosn's flight from news reports. "We have to understand what happened," she said on France Inter radio.Ghosn is not above the law, she said, and "if a foreign citizen fled the French justice system, we would be very angry." But she noted that, as a French citizen, he could use the country's consular services.A group of children may have been among the last people to see him before he left Japan, according to a report in The Asahi Shimbun. It described the possible sighting on Friday morning in much the way one would an appearance by Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster."His eyebrows stand out," a 12-year-old girl told a reporter combing the streets near Ghosn's home for clues about his disappearance."Everyone was saying to each other, 'Isn't that Ghosn?'"This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company
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| Senate should set aside witness dispute and start impeachment trial: McConnell Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:33 AM PST  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday the Senate should begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even though it has not resolved a dispute over whether top White House aides will be called as witnesses. "We should address mid-trial questions such as witnesses after briefs, opening arguments, senator questions and other relevant motions," McConnell said on the Senate floor as the chamber returned from a holiday break. The Senate is due to hold a trial to consider whether Trump should be removed from office, after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted in December to impeach the president for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election.
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| Floods in Indonesia capital recede as death toll reaches 30 Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:25 AM PST  Residents of Indonesia's capital who had been forced into shelters by widespread flooding began returning to their homes Thursday as the waters started to recede, though the death toll from the disaster jumped to 30. Jakarta Gov. Anies Bawesdan said much of the water had receded by Thursday evening and the number of displaced people at temporary shelters had fallen to about 5,000 from 19,000.
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| China took their parents: the Uighur refugee children of Turkey Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:34 PM PST  The school on the outskirts of Istanbul is a rare place where Uighur child refugees from China can study their language and culture. Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in northwest China, some of their parents thought it was still safe to return occasionally for business and to visit family, only to disappear into a shadowy network of re-education camps from which no communication is permitted. Nine-year-old Fatima has only vague memories of her homeland -- and now, of her father, too.
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| Kentucky attorney general asks FBI to investigate ex-Gov. Matt Bevin's pardons Posted: 02 Jan 2020 03:04 PM PST  Former Gov. Matt Bevin has received criticism for pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 650 people following his failed re-election bid.
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| The Quadrantids Meteor Shower Will Peak This Weekend Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:14 AM PST  Here's how to watch this wintry meteor shower.
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| Ex-CIA boss: "There will be dead Americans" after Iran general killed Posted: 03 Jan 2020 12:39 AM PST  The targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military leaders, has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Iran vowing revenge
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| 5 commercial fishermen are believed to be dead after their crabbing vessel sank on New Year's Eve Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:41 AM PST  Five commercial fishermen were believed to have died after their crabbing vessel sank on New Year's Eve in the Gulf of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said after ending a search and rescue operation amid high winds and heavy seas.
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| Paleontologists are unraveling the mysteries of young T. rexes. Creatures they thought were 2 species turned out to be kids and adults. Posted: 01 Jan 2020 11:00 AM PST  A full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex weighed up to 10 tons and was 43 feet long. Much of its growth happened during its teenage years.
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| Biden Says U.S. on ‘Brink’ of New Mideast War: Campaign Update Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:58 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iran's military chief Qassem Soleimani put the U.S. "on the brink" of a new war in the Middle East."This morning, we could be on the brink of a new kind of conflict in the Middle East," Biden told voters in Dubuque, Iowa. He acknowledged that the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds force and the nation's top general "was the architect behind the slaughter of countless lives in the region." He added: "No American mourns his passing."But Biden, who wants voters to recognize his foreign-policy credentials as a former vice president and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he worried Trump didn't have a plan for any next steps."The question is do Donald Trump and his administration have a strategy for what comes next?" he said. "Unfortunately, nothing we've seen from this administration" suggests it has a long-range plan, he said.President Barack Obama, who had rejected a Pentagon plan to kill Soleimani, had "solved and put on the back burner" issues with Iran by completing the 2015 nuclear deal, Biden said. Trump has removed the U.S. from the multinational deal.Bloomberg Sets Plan to Help Hire Veterans (noon)Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg would expand tax credits for businesses that hire unemployed and disabled veterans and take other steps to help former military personnel get jobs under a proposal released Friday.Bloomberg's campaign said it couldn't provide details about the tax credit expansion or a cost estimate because it's still developing its tax proposals. Almost 3 million people have served in the military in the past decade and more than 1 million veterans are expected to move to civilian life in the next five years.The former New York mayor released his veterans employment plan while opening two field offices in North Carolina, one of the delegate-rich states voting March 3 on so-called Super Tuesday. He is targeting those states while skipping the early primary contests.The plan calls for expanding the "Returning Heroes" and "Wounded Warriors" tax credits that employers can use to reduce federal income tax liability by as much as $9,600 for each veteran hired, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The campaign said it is exploring increasing the amount of the exemption and making it available for more veterans and will determine later which is best.Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. -- Mark NiquetteWarren Raises $21.2 Million in Quarter (9 a.m.)Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $21.2 million in the final three months of 2019, her presidential campaign announced Friday, a sum that's less than her three main Democratic rivals had one month before the Iowa caucuses.The haul, with an average contribution of $23 from 900,000 donations, is less than the $24.6 million she raised in the third quarter. It comes as Warren faced a tough stretch after rising to the top tier over the summer and becoming a target of opponents like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg.Warren sought to lower expectations at the end of the year by telling supporters she was "a good chunk behind" her goal. A campaign aide said she raised more than $4 million in five days, including over $1.5 million on the last day, following a series of pleas.Warren's fourth-quarter figure is about $13 million lower than what Bernie Sanders raised. Unlike Biden and Buttigieg, the two have foregone high-dollar fundraising events as they run on populist and anti-corruption platforms.In the final three months of 2019, Warren's national poll numbers declined from their peak before leveling off in third place, behind Biden and Sanders but ahead of Buttigieg. The other three top contenders all outpaced their third-quarter haul. -- Sahil Kapur and Misyrlena EgkolfopoulouKlobuchar Raised $11.4 Million Last Quarter (6:55 a.m.)Democratic 2020 hopeful Senator Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign raised $11.4 million in the final three months of 2019, but while it was more than double the $4.8 million she raised the prior quarter the amount lagged behind several rivals.Klobuchar's fourth quarter haul included contributions from 145,126 donors with an average online contribution of $32 and was her best fundraising performance of her presidential bid so far, according to her campaign. The Minnesota senator saw a "massive surge in grassroots support" in the fourth quarter due to strong debate performance, her campaign manager Justin Buoen said in a written statement.Even so, her fourth quarter donations were overshadowed by the performance of some of her Democratic rivals -- Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign said he raised $34.5 million in the final quarter of 2019, while Pete Buttigieg's campaign reported raising $24.7 million and former Vice President Joe Biden raised $22.7 million. --Kathleen MillerCOMING UP:Five Democratic candidates -- Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren and Senator Amy Klobuchar -- have qualified for the next debate, on Jan. 14 in Iowa.President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee on the same night as the debate, as well as a rally in Toledo on Jan. 9.The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses will be held Feb. 3.(Michael Bloomberg is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.)\--With assistance from Kathleen Miller, Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Sahil Kapur and Mark Niquette.To contact the reporters on this story: Jennifer Epstein in Washington at jepstein32@bloomberg.net;Emma Kinery in Washington at ekinery@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Steve GeimannFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong in New Year's Day protests: police Posted: 01 Jan 2020 08:10 PM PST  Hong Kong police arrested about 400 people in New Year's Day protests after what started as a peaceful pro-democracy march of tens of thousands spiraled into chaotic scenes with police firing tear gas to disperse the crowds. The arrests take the total to about 7,000 since protests in the city escalated in June over a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, and will highlight the apparent absence of any progress towards ending the unrest. The tension on Wednesday rose after some arrests were made in the Wan Chai bar district near a branch of global banking group HSBC <0005.HK>, which has been the target of protester anger in recent weeks.
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| Ghosn seen on security camera leaving Tokyo home alone: media Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:09 PM PST  Fugitive former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was caught on security camera leaving his Tokyo home by himself on the day he fled to avoid a Japanese trial, local media reported Friday. Ghosn was not seen returning home after leaving around noon on December 29, public broadcaster NHK said, citing people involved in the investigation. It is believed Ghosn headed from there to Beirut.
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| Police: Psychic said girl was possessed, scammed mom of $70K Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:26 AM PST  Tracy Milanovich, 37, of Somerset, is charged with obtaining property by trick, along with larceny and witness intimidation, Somerset police said in a statement Thursday. Police started investigating Dec. 17 when the alleged victim reported that she was tricked by Milanovich into handing over large sums of cash along with household items, including towels and bedding, to battle the demon. The allegations date to Nov. 15, when the woman first went to Milanovich's business, Tracy's Psychic Palm Reader, for a tarot card reading, police said in their report.
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| Former Fox News reporter says she rejected Trump's sexual advance Posted: 03 Jan 2020 03:36 AM PST  Former Fox News reporter and occasional Fox & Friends host Courtney Friel writes in a new memoir that before he was president, Donald Trump told her she was "the hottest one at Fox News" and during one call, "out of nowhere, he said: 'You should come up to my office sometime, so we can kiss,'" according to an excerpt of the book shared with the New York Daily News. Friel writes she was "shocked" by the come-on and said no: "'Donald,' I responded, 'I believe we're both married.' I quickly ended the call."Friel, now an anchor at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, said Trump's "proposition made it difficult for me to report with a straight face on Trump running for president," the Daily News reports. "It infuriated me that he would call all the women who shared stories of his bold advances liars. I totally believe them. ... At least now I can joke that I could have banged the president — but I passed." You can read more about Friel's upcoming book, Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News, at the Daily News.More stories from theweek.com The booming stock market shows America is diseased Fox News segment on Soleimani strike descends into chaos as Geraldo Rivera and Brian Kilmeade clash 5 ways Iran might retaliate for America's airstrike
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| How Iran Could Strike Back at Donald Trump: Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:10 PM PST  Is this possible?
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| The US military ran the largest stress test of its sealift fleet in years. It’s in big trouble. Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:09 AM PST  Only 40 percent of the military's organic sealift fleet is fully ready for tasking, according to a new report.
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| An oxygen leak forced Lufthansa passengers heading to Brazil to take an 8-hour flight from Frankfurt to Frankfurt Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:21 AM PST  Lufthansa Flight 500 to Rio de Janeiro turned back to Frankfurt while off the coast of West Africa, with passengers in the air for over eight hours.
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| Spain Set for Government at Last as Separatists Back Sanchez Posted: 03 Jan 2020 04:19 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Spain is set to finally get a new government after the acting premier, Pedro Sanchez, persuaded a Catalan separatist party to help him take office for a second term.Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya agreed to abstain in a confidence vote in parliament, giving Sanchez the numbers he needs to form a Socialist-led coalition, Pere Aragones, a senior ERC official, said Thursday. A final vote in the Spanish Parliament is expected Jan. 7.Spain has been without a proper government since Sanchez dissolved parliament in March for the first of two elections last year.With the parliament splintered between five major national parties and a host of smaller regional groups after a second ballot in November, Sanchez turned to Esquerra to help swing the numbers in his favor. A pact with the anti-austerity party Podemos got him closer to the line and upped the pressure on the Catalans.The deal represents the latest attempt to get to grips with the political fragmentation that has dogged Spain since the conservative People's Party lost its majority in 2015. Sanchez claimed his first term in 2018 by ousting the minority PP government of Mariano Rajoy following the Catalan crisis of 2017, but never managed to stitch together a stable majority.The push by separatist groups, including Esquerra, to force Catalonia out of Spain opened a new schism between those calling for a crackdown and those wanting reconciliation. Despite striking a relatively hard line on Catalonia during the election campaign, Thursday's deal leaves Sanchez committed to keeping Esquerra onside.Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 stock index fell as much as 1.1%. Spanish bonds rose as the yield on 10-year debt fell to 0.412% from 0.441% on Thursday.As part of Thursday's agreement, Sanchez agreed to hold talks with the Catalan regional government to address their differences.The agreement "recognizes that this is fundamentally a political problem," Aragones said. "It recognizes the legitimacy of all the Catalan institutions, that political channels must be opened and that the judicial and police channels must be avoided."Acting Public Works Minister Jose Luis Abalos said the agreement with Esquerra isn't for a coalition government, but rather to "unblock the current situation." For example, Esquerra hasn't agreed to support the government's budget, Abalos said, adding that those kinds of negotiations will come later.Asked whether the pact meant Pedro Sanchez's government would support a referendum on Catalonian independence, Abalos said the Socialists had been very clear that they're not in favor of self-determination."We're prepared to debate any idea on the table, but evidently that doesn't mean we'll agree to it," Abalos said at a press conference in Madrid on Friday.Slowing EconomyAmong Sanchez's other priorities will be an economy that is starting to lose momentum, despite outperforming most European peers.The prospect of a left-wing government facilitated by Catalan and Basque nationalists is a risky gambit by Sanchez -- even though he says the political math left him with little option. In agreement with Podemos, he has pledged a program of tax increases for the highest earners and large companies, a higher minimum wage and tighter protection for workers, rolling back some of the labor reforms enacted in 2012 at the height of a financial crisis.He's likely to face more political turbulence all the same.PP leader Pablo Casado has refused appeals to facilitate a Socialist-led government to avoid yet more elections because in his view, Sanchez has chosen to ally with enemies of the Spanish constitution. Esquerra's leaders have said a deal with Sanchez is the best way for now for the independence movement to advance its aims.Sanchez says he needs the Catalans to forge the progressive government that Spanish voters endorsed in November. His Socialists held off a surge in votes for the conservative PP and the far-right Vox party to emerge best-placed to form an administration in partnership with Podemos.Esquerra is committed to striving for a Catalan republic -- its leader Oriol Junqueras was jailed for his part in the 2017 crisis -- and the rocky path to deal with the Socialists points to the potential for more trouble ahead.Esquerra suspended the talks last month after Europe's top court said Junqueras should have been given legal immunity after he won a European Parliament seat in May. Spanish state lawyers have recommended that Junqueras should be allowed to carry out his role as a European lawmaker, helping to smooth the path to a final agreement.Sanchez has said any deal would comply with the terms of the Spanish constitution, meaning there's no room for negotiation on Esquerra's key demand for an official referendum on independence.(Updates with Abalos comments from 10th paragraph.)\--With assistance from Charlie Devereux.To contact the reporters on this story: Charles Penty in Madrid at cpenty@bloomberg.net;Rodrigo Orihuela in Madrid at rorihuela@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Andrew Blackman, Benedikt KammelFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Carnival Elation spills 'gray water' at Florida port due to valve problem Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:43 AM PST  The Carnival Elation spilled "gray water" from its plumbing and shower systems while docked at Port Canaveral in Florida on Thursday.
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| The New U.S. Space Force Also Has a 'SPOC' Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:33 AM PST  It's perfectly logical.
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| Cyprus rape case: Teenager begs Boris Johnson to bring her home and end 'waking nightmare' Posted: 02 Jan 2020 04:50 PM PST  A British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has pleaded with Boris Johnson to "bring me home". The 19-year-old alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room in the Ayia Napa on July 17, but she has said Cypriot police forced her to sign a retraction statement which led to her being convicted of public mischief at Famagusta District Court, in Paralimni. "Every second of this ordeal has been a waking nightmare," the woman said. "I'm 19 and all I want to do is clear my name and come home to my family," she added in quotes reported by The Sun. "I would say to both the Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, both of whom are fathers, please support me with your actions, not just with your words." The paper also reported that the Foreign Office had on Thursday contacted the teenager's family for the first time since she was convicted. Protesters claim the woman is a victim of Cyprus's "rape culture" Credit: IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP via Getty Images A Foreign Office spokeswoman told PA that the UK was "seriously concerned" about the "fair trial guarantees in this deeply distressing case and we will be raising the issue with Cypriot authorities". Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, said on Monday that he would raise the case with the Cypriot authorities. The woman's legal team said that regardless of the sentence passed by the court, they would appeal against the conviction, even if she was given a suspended sentence - which would still mean a criminal record. "Appealing against the conviction is the most important thing for a young person," Michael Polak, director of the campaigning group Justice Abroad, said. An online crowdfunding appeal to raise money for legal support for the woman's daughter has passed £120,000, exceeding its £105,000 goal. The "help teen victim get justice in Cyprus" GoFundMe page was set up by British lawyer John Hobbs in August to raise cash for the 19-year-old's legal representation. The woman has been on bail since the end of August, after spending a month in prison, and could face up to a year in jail and a 1,700 euro (£1,500) fine when she is sentenced on January 7. A number of prominent legal figures in Cyprus have also written to Costas Clerides, the attorney-general, urging him to intervene in the case. The group includes former justice minister Kypros Chrysostomides, who told the BBC the woman involved had "already suffered a lot" and he expected her sentence would be "very lenient". "She has already been in detention for four-and-a-half weeks and she has been prevented from travelling for about five months already," he said. But the government of Cyprus has said it has "full confidence in the justice system and the courts". Meanwhile, the teenager's mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has backed calls for a tourism boycott of the country. "The place isn't safe - it is absolutely not safe. And if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as I can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. The woman said her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hallucinations, and is sleeping for up to 20 hours a day because of a condition called hypersomnia. "She needs to get back to the UK to get that treated - that's my absolute primary focus. She can't be treated here because hearing foreign men speaking loudly will trigger an episode," she said. "It needs resolving otherwise she's going to carry on having this for the rest of her life."
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| Wisconsin teacher admits to defecating in park for 2 years Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:28 AM PST ![Wisconsin teacher admits to defecating in park for 2 years]( "Wisconsin teacher admits to defecating in park for 2 years") A retiring Wisconsin English teacher cited for defecating in a public park for two years told authorities he was "being an idiot" and that he did it for convenience and to be disrespectful. Jeffrey S. Churchwell, who is retiring from Milton School District later this month, will have to pay $365 in fines plus $5,705 in restitution to the Public Works Department, which cleaned up after him. The Janesville Gazette reported Tuesday it found out about the case through an open records request of sheriff's office reports.
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| Climate deniers are cooking themselves — and everyone else Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:50 AM PST  The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that climate change is something only hippies should care about. By this view, commonly expressed by conservative politicians, fixing climate change is only for bleeding-hearts who care more about hugging trees than making money.But this is completely wrong. Climate change will wreck the environment, and in the process it will wreck human society as well — causing many deaths and billions of dollars in damage, as we're seeing now as Australia is battered by the worst wildfires in its history. People who deny or downplay climate change are broiling themselves and everyone else alive.Some extreme weather events have a complex array of causes, and it is hard to tie them definitively to climate change. Hurricane formation, for instance, involves winds, ocean temperatures and the difference between atmospheric temperatures, the spin of the earth, and many other factors, so it is a tricky business to pin worse storms on global warming. (Nevertheless, a growing body of research does indeed point to climate change as a key cause of increasing hurricane severity.)But that is not true at all of the Australian bushfires. Fires get worse when things are hot, dry, and windy, and climate change has provided all of those conditions in abundance. The continent has warmed by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (a bit over 1 degree Celsius) since the 1970s, and in keeping with the predictions of climate models, Australia has experienced steadily worse droughts and heat waves over the last 30 years. The current drought may end up being the worst in history — this spring was the driest ever recorded on the continent, and back on December 18 it set a new record for the hottest day ever measured with an average temperature across the entire country of 105.6 degrees.So far this Australian fire season, almost 15 million acres have been burned, at least 18 people have died, a further 17 are missing, and over 1,200 homes have burned down. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, and thousands more are still trapped in hazardous locations. Australia's largest cities have repeatedly suffocated under smoke plumes — on December 11, Sydney recorded particulate pollution 11 times worse than the "hazardous" level, and at time of writing capital city Canberra had the second-worst air in the world. Meanwhile, the ongoing drought has devastated Australian farmers.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (from the Liberal Party, which is politically conservative) has been wrong-footed by the crisis — residents of fire-stricken towns yelled at him during a tour of the damage, and his record of boosting fossil fuels has become a major focus of news coverage of the events.Morrison insists that he has taken a measured approach to climate, but this is nonsense — on the contrary, Australia is one of the major climate villains in the world. Morrison has long been in the pocket of Big Carbon, and has consistently boosted fossil fuel development as prime minister. Indeed, before he was head of the Liberals he brought a chunk of coal onto the floor of parliament and accused the opposition party of "coalphobia." As recently as November, his deputy prime minister was calling climate activists "inner-city raving lunatics."As a result, Australia's domestic emissions have increased steadily since 2013, when the Liberals took power and immediately repealed the carbon tax passed under the previous Labor Party government. More importantly, Australia is the second-largest coal exporter in the world (only recently passed up by Indonesia, despite increased Australian production), and thanks to the Liberal government, it has recently soared to become the second-largest exporter of liquid natural gas as well, and may take first place next year. Most of that fuel goes to Japan, China, India, and Korea. All this makes Australia the third-largest exporter of carbon dioxide emissions, just behind Russia and Saudi Arabia.To be fair, the opposition party isn't much better, despite the modest carbon tax mentioned above. Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese backs coal exports despite criticizing Morrison's abysmal climate record.Of course, Australia's natural environment is getting pummeled as well by the drought and fires. As Nerilie Abram writes at Scientific American, "early estimates suggest that around 500 million animals have died so far, including 30 percent of the koala population in their main habitat."But it is worth emphasizing that the koalas aren't the only ones suffering. If adorable animals being slaughtered by the millions doesn't tug one's heartstrings, then perhaps consider self-interest, as Australians hide in lakes to keep from being burned alive. A few more years of fat coal profits aren't worth making Mad Max into a documentary.In short, Australia, like many countries (very much including the United States) is pathologically addicted to fossil fuels, and is roasting itself and the world in the process. Without strong international climate policy, there will be future droughts, fires, and other disasters that make the current crisis seem like a friendly daydream.More stories from theweek.com The booming stock market shows America is diseased Fox News segment on Soleimani strike descends into chaos as Geraldo Rivera and Brian Kilmeade clash 5 ways Iran might retaliate for America's airstrike
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| U.S. sees signs Iran or proxies may be planning more attacks: Pentagon chief Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:44 AM PST  U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday there were indications Iran or forces it backs may be planning additional attacks, warning that the "game has changed" and it was possible the United States might have to take preemptive action to protect American lives. "There are some indications out there that they may be planning additional attacks, that is nothing new ... we've seen this for two or three months now," Esper told reporters, without providing evidence or details about the U.S. assessment. Iranian-backed demonstrators hurled rocks at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad during two days of protests, then withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops.
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| India's Russian-Made Aircraft Carrier Is a Total Disaster. Here's Why. Posted: 02 Jan 2020 03:00 AM PST  n the early 2000s, India went shopping for a new aircraft carrier. What followed was a military-industrial nightmare.
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| British Airways cabin crew killed in New Year’s Eve crash Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:55 AM PST  A British Airways cabin crew was killed in a crash with a truck while on their way to a New Year's Eve party.
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