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A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed and another injured when their T–38 training jet crashed near Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. Laughlin suspended T–38 flights after the accident.
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In 2015 Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) settled a wrongful dismissal complaint filed by a female employee who refused his sexual advances. The details of the case are disgusting, and this wasn’t the first time Conyers, the longest-serving member of the the House, was accused of something like this. Congress has an office called the Office of Compliance that hides these cases from the public by requiring anyone who files a sexual harassment complaint to sign a non-disclosure agreement and agree to arbitration. Andrew McCarthy writes that it’s time for Congress to end these non-disclosure agreements so voters know what their representatives have been up to.
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The U.S. claims it killed more than 100 al Shabaab fighters in an airstrike against a camp 125 miles northwest of Mogadishu.
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The Department of Defense plans to spend $143 million to upgrade an air base in Jordan. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base is located near Jordan’s borders with Syria and Iraq.
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In July 2019 the U.S. will end the special immigration status granted to 59,000 Haitians after the 2010 earthquake. In the past, the U.S. has repeatedly extended special immigration deals like this one. Now Haitians have 18 months to move back to Haiti or legalize their status in the U.S.
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The Department of Justice is threatening to sue Harvard University because it refuses to turn over documents as part of an investigation into whether it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. Hint: It does.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor are back in court in California and Pennsylvania — both states are forcing the Catholic religious order to supply abortifacients to its employees. The attorneys general of both states have received significant amounts of campaign funding from the abortion industry.
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Robert Mugabe finally resigned as Zimbabwe’s president, shortly after parliament started impeachment proceedings. Former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn into office on Wednesday or Thursday.
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Czech police asked parliament to lift the immunity of prospective prime minister Andrej Babis. The police suspect Babis, who is a billionaire, concealed his ownership of a business to collect an EU subsidy targeting small businesses. Babis’ party won the last parliamentary election, but he’s having trouble forming a government because no other parties will agree to work with him.
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Russia’s meteorological service discovered ruthenium 106 at concentrations nearly 1,000 times normal in the Ural Mountains, lending credence to reports that there’s been a radioactive accident in Russia or Kazakhstan.
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A suicide truck bomber killed at least 23 people and wounded at least 60 in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu. The bombing took place in a mainly Shiite area.
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At least 50 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Mubi, Nigeria.
