Friday, Nov 22nd
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Trump’s transition team has a “warrior board” executive order ready for the president-elect’s desk.
An executive order draft is floating around MAGA world that would establish a Trump-appointed “warrior board” with the power to purge any three- or four-star generals as it sees fit. The board would send its dismissal recommendations to Trump and they would be acted upon within 30 days.
With Tuesday marking the end of the Biden administration’s window for the Israeli government to materially improve the humanitarian response in war-torn Gaza, international aid organizations are condemning the country’s failure to meet U.S. demands and, in some cases, outright worsening the crisis that has devastated Palestinians for the last 13 months.
“Israel not only failed to meet the U.S. criteria that would indicate support to the humanitarian response, but concurrently took action that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly in Northern Gaza,” eight aid organizations said in a report on Tuesday. “That situation is in an even more dire state today than a month ago.”
The damning report by Oxfam, Save the Children, MedGlobal, Anera, CARE, Mercy Corps, Refugees International and the Norwegian Refugee Council rates Israel’s progress in complying with the U.S. letter’s humanitarian demands.
Evaluating 19 measures of relief, the organizations’ scorecard found Israel to be noncompliant on 15, partially compliant on four and fully compliant on zero.
An explosion has been reported Thursday afternoon at a business in Louisville, Kentucky, officials confirmed.
Louisville Division of Fire spokesperson Donovan Sims confirmed the blast to the Louisville Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Officials urged people to stay away from the area in the city's Clifton neighborhood as the investigation is underway. A shelter-in-place order went into effect within a 1-mile radius of the explosion, according to Louisville Metro Emergency Services.
Former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it online, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced.
Teixeira received the sentence before Judge Indira Talwani in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
In March, the national guardsman pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. He was arrested by the FBI in North Dighton, Massachusetts, in April 2023 and has been in federal custody since mid-May 2023.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court’s rejection of Meadow’s attempt.
Meadows, who was charged with former President Donald Trump and 17 others in what prosecutors say was a sprawling conspiracy to reverse President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Georgia, argued that the crimes he is accused of committing involved actions that were part of his federal job at the White House.
And the federal courts are the appropriate place to determine how the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity should apply to his case, his lawyers told the justices.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” in some of the harshest public criticism of the country by a Saudi official since the start of the war.
Speaking at a summit of Muslim and Arab leaders the prince also criticised Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
In a sign of improving ties between rivals Riyadh and Tehran, he warned Israel against launching attacks on Iranian soil.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.
Ukrainian troops “continue to hold back” the “nearly 50,000-strong enemy group” in Kursk, Zelensky said in a post on Telegram after receiving a briefing from General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Kyiv launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August, taking by surprise not just Moscow, but also its allies. It said at the time, that the operation was necessary, because Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the region. It said it was aiming to create a “buffer zone” to prevent future cross-border attacks.
The Kursk offensive, the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II, caught Moscow completely unprepared.
Why did Kamala Harris lose the 2024 presidential election?
There is no shortage of answers to this question, most of them self-affirming and offered up to serve whatever agenda the pundit in question is trying to advance. That is certainly what you’re seeing now on CNN and MSNBC.
Voters who want something better in future elections than the awful choice we had this year must try to be more honest. But that honesty should not be false modesty either. We need to accurately assess our strength and power, not overstate nor understate it.
The question of the United States’ Middle East policy is not a simple one. There can be no doubt that Mideast policy, especially regarding the genocide in Gaza, played a profound role in this campaign. But can we say that Harris lost this race because of Gaza?
The revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s national guard.
Wes Moore, the governor, called the occasion not just a great day for Tubman’s home state but for all of the US.
“Today, we celebrate a soldier and a person who earned the title of veteran,” Moore said. “Today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the American story.”
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