The return of budget caps and the potential for automatic across-the-board spending cuts through 2021 pose the No. 1 defense fiscal challenge for the the next president and defense secretary, according to Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord. “There is no deal on the books, so you are starting with a clean sheet of paper” that “overshadows their whole first term,” McCord said in an interview ... 1 ... “What does the new team think?” ... LEARN MORE. ....
An unnamed Turkish official has confirmed the nationalities of the three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on Istanbul’s airport as Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals, Turkish media and officials told various media outlets.Turkey believes Islamic State militants were behind the suicide gun and bomb attack killing 43 and wounding more than 230 people – many of them airport workers, BBCNews reported Thursday....
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Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out. The solar-powered Juno spacecraft is on the final leg of a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the biggest planet in the solar system.... ....
(CNN)With just 38 days to go before the Rio Olympics kicks off, the situation in the host city just went from bad to worse. A beach goer Wednesday discovered mutilated human body parts that had washed up on the shore, right in front of the OlympicBeach VolleyballArena on Rio's famed Copacabana beach. A dismembered foot and another body part still unidentified was found, according to Andre Luiz, an officer of the Military Police... ....
Former London MayorBoris Johnson shocked the United Kingdom Thursday when he unexpectedly ruled himself out as a candidate to be Britain’s next prime minister after justice secretary Michael Gove, chair of Johnson’s leadership campaign, decided to run for the Conservative leadership chair himself, The Guardian reported ... The result will be announced on Sept. 9.– WN.com, Jack Durschlag....
Filipinos are hotly debating whether the self-styled action man who became their president on Thursday will rescue their country or ruin it as he begins his six years in charge ... ....
... neighbourhood Swansea University academic sparks debate after reportedly comparing student sex work to a bar job Jeremy Corbyn says sex work should be decriminalised ....
AttachedFiles. . ID. . 1467307992860594200. Publication Date. . Friday, July 1, 2016. KABUL ... The poet and philosopher “was born in Balkh in Afghanistan and made us proud,” the Ministry of Information and Culture insisted ... Most researchers agree he was born in Balkh, Afghanistan in 1207 — though this too has been the subject of debate ... Offbeat. ....
AttachedFiles. . ID. . 1467307992940594800. Publication Date. . Friday, July 1, 2016. TOKYO. The film world of Asia, known for producing Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Brillante Mendoza and other greats, is too busy making movies of its own to fret much about the debate slamming Hollywood — the casting of white people in roles written for Asians...It’s also a sensitive topic ... Main category. . Offbeat. ....
John seems to still be a little shocked over his intense conversation he had with Diana the other day. Diana acts like the Rayburn’s normally tend to, mentions nothing about it before leaving the house. He gets the silent treatment from her and then gets it from Meg about his fight with Ozzy... Poor Kevin ... Gilbert suggests they should set up a public debate ... Meg is hashing out the debate details with Aguirre’s campaign manager ... WOW ... ....
The NewMexicoSupreme Court ruled Thursday that terminally ill patients cannot end their lives with help from doctors, ending what right-to-die advocates thought would be a successful legal fight ...Doctors can legally help terminally ill patients ends their lives in five states — California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont — and advocates have spurred debate in dozens of other statehouses around the country ... ___ ... ....
(Source. Charles W Dent). Press Releases. June 30, 2016 ... Any additional needs that may be required could be debated and included in the fiscal year 2017 appropriations process. Additionally, the partial offsets included in the conference agreement are largely from unobligated and unspent resources, something that should be noncontroversial ... 4974) through the House by a bipartisan vote of 295 to 129 ... $230 million for NIH (vaccines) ... CONTACT....
(Source. Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA). By 2nd Lt.James Ackerman . Marine Corps Base Quantico . June 30, 2016 Marine Corps Base Quantico --. When America first came into existence, a symbol for our new nation was needed ... Or so the story goes ... Initially, the pattern and number of the stars was debated as to whether it should stay the same or grow when the size of the newborn union grew ... (noodl. 34354949) ....
(Source. Government of the Republic of Hungary) ...The Minister informed the press ... He added ... He said ... The Minister also said that, after more than three years of social debates and consultations, the Government regards the issue of the Liget project as closed ... He took the view that it is not the Government's duty to decide whether a historian's statement is correct or incorrect, and the historian community will have to debate the matter....
Vote Leave campaign leader, Boris Johnson, reacts as he delivers a speech in London, Britain June 30, 2016. It was less than a week ago that it all seemed so clear ... Whether Johnson got out of the race because he believes he cannot win or because he doesn’t actually want to preside over the wrenching overhaul of British society that a departure from the EU would entail is currently a hotly debated topic ... and the U.K ... Loading video... ....
One week before the 40th anniversary of the California Conservation Corps, which he started when he was governor before, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that he favors the idea of national, mandatory service for young people. In an interview at the Capitol, Brown discussed public service, the limitations of “typing on your digital mechanism” and the value of working up a “good sweat.”. Q ... A ... That’s the idea of it ... Q ... A ... Q ... A ... That was a debate....