Just when Hillary Clinton thought her political fiascoes would be the worst of her ongoing troubles as she glides through the Democrat primaries, and then takes on Trump sure to find a Warren Buffett-funded victory, suddenly everything appears to have gone wrong in what is most important to the scandal-ridden former Secretary of State and presidential contender: her second - and final - campaign for president.
The US Secretary of Defense said on Thursday that the US sailors who trespassed into Iranian waters had made a “navigational error.” Ashton Carter said the information came from debriefings of the sailors, who were flown on Wednesday to a U.S. military facility in Qatar after Iran released them along with their two riverine boats. Press TV reports: “The information that they have given us, and through their commanders is that they did stray accidentally into Iranian waters due to a navigation error,” the Pentagon chief said in an interview with Univision on Thursday.
Since the 1960s, the Republican Party has sought out and corralled the angry white vote which was back-lashing against the civil rights movement and black progress. But now that disaffected base is turning on the wealthy GOP elites and no one should be surprised, writes Michael Winship. By Michael Winship Now, On May 21, 1946,…
Former director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Michael Hayden says that the U.S. keeps too many cyber-attacks secret. The retired U.S. Air Force four-star general said in an interview that the government and businesses keep cyber attacks a secret for their own reasons and that the country is ill prepared to deal with the ever increasing threat from hackers.
Fox Business will host the sixth main Republican debate tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. The pointless “undercard” debate will air at 6:00. The main debate will have the fewest candidates it has had yet. The field has been reduced to Trump, Cruz, Bush, Rubio, Kasich, Christie, and Carson. Tonight is likely to be the most contentious debate thus far, as all of the candidates have ongoing feuds with two or more of their rivals.