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FBI to review Flynn investigation for misconduct
Sixteen prosecutors from the Watergate case are calling on the court system to ignore the Department of Justice and not drop the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn . "This case is ultimately about judicial independence and the integrity of the Judicial Branch and therefore about the rule of law in our constitutional democracy", the brief reads. [Full Article...]
Two more COVID-19 related deaths reported in Calhoun County
If this stays the same, India is expected to overtake Iran in a day or two. In terms of tests per million of its population, India, (around 2,000 per million), ranks behind Spain (around 65,000), the United States and Germany (both around 38,000) and France (around 21,000). [Full Article...]
United States successfully tests a laser weapon that can destroy aircraft mid-flight
The laser was sacked from the USS Portland and hit an unmanned aerial vehicle, which can be seen lighting up in footage taken by the Navy. Developed by the Office of Naval Research and Northrop Grumman as a successor to the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) - the military's first fully approved laser platform - the LWSD was deployed to the Portland in 2019 soon after the ship was commissioned, wher... [Full Article...]
Trump Endorses Tommy Tuberville Again, Says 'Do Not Trust' Jeff Sessions
That's not your agenda and it's not mine or Alabama's. But even as Sessions pushed back against the president's criticism Friday, he also tried to argue that his policy positions are more in tune with Trump than Tuberville's. Tuberville has sought to exploit the bitter divisions between Trump and Sessions , declaring earlier in the week that Sessions threw Trump "to the wolves" with t... [Full Article...]
AC trains resume from June 1, bookings begin
Only the tickets of the regular trains are being cancelled that were booked during the lockdown period when Railways was allowing bookings for journeys in June. However, there are some instructions made for booking of tickets & charting, quota, concessions , cancellation & refunds, health screening, catering, linen, etc. [Full Article...]
All aboard! Spain is reopening to global TOURISM from July
LaLiga will become the second of Europe's top five leagues to resume after the Bundesliga got their 2019/20 campaign back underway last weekend. All organised football in Spain was provisionally suspended on March 12 although clubs in the top two divisions have since returned to group training. [Full Article...]
Fire Dept. Reminds You Not to Leave Hand Sanitizers in Vehicles
The Western Lakes Fire District in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin posted a picture on social media showing the interior of a driver's side door burned and melted. A Wisconsin fire department posted a photo of a destroyed auto door on its Facebook page. Experts said in order for a bottle of hand sanitizer to catch on fire it would need to reach a temperature of at least 300 degrees. [Full Article...]
Iran warns US not to interfere with tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela
Iran is supplying about 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and alkylate to Venezuela. While a cold war with China is working its way towards the inevitable, another situation is developing that could lead to physical clashes between Iran and the United States over the former's attempts to ship fuel to Venezuela amid the collapse of its refining industry. [Full Article...]