A U.S. military drone malfunctioned and was forced to make an emergency landing in Niger over the weekend, Pentagon officials said after images emerged on social media that seem to show the MQ-1C Gray Eagle sitting in an abandoned field near the city of Agadez. The unmanned aerial vehicle appears to be equipped with Hellfire …
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military, dumping a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office, a person briefed on the decision tells The Associated Press. Biden has …
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – It didn’t take long for relations with China to become an issue for new U.S. President Joe Biden. A show of force by the Chinese air force off Taiwan last weekend prompted a U.S. response, even as Biden and his administration focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and other pressing issues at …
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday he was willing to “turn the page” with the U.S. under President Joe Biden, calling for a “new path” after years of tension with Donald Trump’s White House. “We are willing to walk a new path in our relations with Joe Biden’s government based on mutual respect, dialogue, communication …
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WASHINGTON — The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn’t bother trying to break one by one into the networks of each department. Instead, they got inside by sneaking malicious code into a software update pushed out to thousands of government agencies and private companies. It wasn’t …
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