Asian financial leaders agree to make 'all policy efforts' to fight COVID-19 pandemic 09/18/2020
TOKYO: Financial leaders from China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia vowed on Friday (Sep 18) to redouble their efforts to help the region recover economically from the novel coronavirus and to defend a multilateral system of trade and investment. "We will remain vigilant to the continued ...
Tycoon Vincent Tan says Berjaya has ‘no interest whatsoever’ in Malaysian company whose executives were named hacking suspects 09/18/2020
KUALA LUMPUR: Berjaya Corporation Berhad Group of Companies has no interest in SEA Gamer Mall (SEAGM), a Perak-based company whose top executives are currently facing extradition proceedings to the United States on cybercrime allegations, said tycoon Vincent Tan. In a statement on Sep 18 (Friday) ...
Attacks surge in northwest Pakistan as Afghan peace effort brings shifting sands 09/18/2020
Militants have stepped up attacks on security forces in northwest Pakistan raising fears of a revival of their insurgency and a return of lawlessness as brighter prospects for peace in Afghanistan herald shifting Islamist alliances.

Court Order Keeps Census In Limbo As Counting End Date Looms 09/17/2020
After the Trump administration missed a filing deadline for court documents, a judge has ordered the wrap-up of the census to remain on hold, throwing door-knocking efforts further into uncertainty.
Wray: Russian Interference Heavy On Agitation, Less So State Cyberattacks 09/17/2020
FBI Director Christopher Wray says that Russian influence-mongers are trying to agitate the body politic in the same way they did in 2016, but not attacking state election systems in the same way.
Greatest Domestic Threat Is Lone Actors Self-Radicalizing Online, Wray Says 09/17/2020
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress that terrorism dangers in the United States have evolved from those with foreign plotters abroad to those involving homegrown extremists.

GOP impeachment report: Trump did nothing wrong

12/02/2019

Republicans say there was “no quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, or abuse of power.”
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