U.S. lawmakers want to know if the insects were released from the Defence Department's laboratories after Republican legislators in the House of Representatives voted that DoD Inspector General to investigate if the micro-menaces were used in biological warfare trials over a 25-year period. [Full Article...]
Under the law, crimes of gender-based streets and public spaces sexual harassment are committed through "any unwanted and uninvited sexual actions or remarks against any person regardless of the motive for committing such action or remarks". [Full Article...]
The State Department announced that it sanctioned four senior Myanmar military officials for "gross human rights violations" committed against the Rohingya people. "As the Tatmadaw is an institution that is run by orders from top to the bottom, this sanction is meant to be not only against the top leaders but also against the whole Tatmadaw", he said, using the local name for the military. [Full Article...]
Officers were called to the area at 3:53 a.m. A 21-year-old woman told police she had ordered a taxi through a ridesharing company. The man then drove the woman to a secluded area where police alleged he sexually assaulted her, stole her cellphone and forced her out of the vehicle. [Full Article...]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received deliveries that might have contained hacked documents while living at the Ecuadorian embassy in England, CNN reports. The reports show that Assange met with Russians and "world-class hackers" before critical leaks. After Assange's arrest Hillary Clinton said the WikiLeaks co-founder, whose website published hacked emails from her 2016 presidential... [Full Article...]
Mike Turner (R-Ohio), ranking member on HASC's strategic forces subcommittee. "... Our national security is not a game, but that's exactly how the Democrats are treating it". Congress last month approved a $4.6 billion measure with money to improve border stations and migrants' treatment. Lawmakers will try to reconcile the competing versions in what could be lengthy negotiations given the differe... [Full Article...]
Trump , in a Monday tweet, seized on slowing economic growth in China as evidence that U.S. tariffs were having "a major effect" and warned that Washington could pile on more pressure. Many people in the United States strongly opposed the tariffs and the trade war, he added. "I would like to once again call on the USA to work together with China, to meet halfway, and to strive for a mutually ben... [Full Article...]
The Facebook event " Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us ", was started as an internet joke to raid Area 51 on September 20 in search of aliens. The promise of force from multiple military and civilian agencies is in response to a Facebook invite created by games streamer SmyleeKun , which describes meeting up at the Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley, Nevada. [Full Article...]