[....] On average, IS has conducted 75 attacks a month in Iraq in 2018, claiming more than 1,500 civilian lives, according to new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based research group.
The inquiry into alleged price-fixing and anti-competitive behavior is rattling an industry that is portrayed in Washington as the white knight of U.S. health care.
President Trump appears poised to replace current Chief of Staff John Kelly with a 36-year-old multi-millionaire who has a reputation as a polarizing and hard-charging fixture in Republican politics, multiple officials tell @NBCNewshttps://t.co/WgtbhHJmIF
Robby Mook on the Democratic Party lagging behind the GOP on voter data: “Republicans are going to have a major strategic advantage over us in 2020 if we don’t fix it" https://t.co/dq5NGos9Rr
The company echoed tech ethicists and employees in its call for restrictions. As Microsoft president Brad Smith put it, “We must ensure that the year 2024 doesn’t look like a page from the novel 1984.”
James Comey spent hours on Friday talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails before the House Judiciary Committee. In the end, he seemed bored—and annoyed.
2012 is identified as the general turning point for when China didn't like foreigners. If only we could figure out what happened in 2012 that changed everything. Guess we will never know https://t.co/6zk2Ql2r18
A man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for killing a woman in an attack that inflamed long-simmering racial and political tensions across the country.
[....] Why it matters: These are the "principal" lies Manafort made that ruined his plea agreement with Mueller. The document shows how much Mueller knows about the investigation’s witnesses and their conduct, and could serve as a warning shot to other witnesses not to lie or tell partial truths — which includes the president, who has already submitted his written statement to Mueller’s team [....]
The organization and other oil-producing countries, chiefly Russia, reached a deal to reduce worldwide oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day — more than had been expected
The slow pace of accountability in the investigation into a 2017 ambush has infuriated Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who officials say is dissatisfied with the punishments doled out largely to junior officers.
A senior officer who escaped punishment will now be reprimanded, while a junior officer’s reprimand was rescinded.
