A year into COVID pandemic, veterans halls ‘barely hanging’ on
Local bars and halls run by VFW and American Legion posts were already struggling. View original article
Strikes on northwest Syria kill 1 person, cause wide damage
BEIRUT (AP) – Airstrikes on several locations in northwest Syria near the border with Turkey have killed at least one person and set afire several trucks used to distribute aid, opposition activists and a paramedic group said Monday. The late Sunday attacks angered Turkey, which had asked Russia to secure … View original article
Cyber attack tied to China boosts development bank’s chief
MIAMI (AP) – The cyberattack crested just as finance officials from across Latin America were descending on Washington to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank. On Sept. 24, 2019, requests from more than 15,000 internet addresses throughout China flooded the bank’s website, knocking part of it intermittently … View original article
Alejandro Mayorias, Homeland Security secretary: Biden team has plans to diffuse migrant surge
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, fresh from a trip to the border, made the rounds of the Sunday political talk shows to try to defuse growing worries over the Biden team’s handling of the migrant surge, insisting they have plans to solve the situation. But he rebuffed attempts by news … View original article
UK to boost navy, special ops in defense plan for new threats
The U.K. government plans to bolster its navy and special forces as part of an overhaul of its defense strategy, planning to be “more active” in combating threats globally. Britain will deploy more ships and submarines, and create a special operations “Ranger Regiment” to be used in high-risk environments, the Ministry of Defense said in …
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