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The U.S. Justice Department says Boeing has accepted a deal to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from the crashes of two 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. In a late Sunday night court filing, the DOJ said "the government and the Boeing Company have reached an agreement in principle on the terms of a proposed plea agreement."
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At least four House Democratic committee leaders said on a Sunday afternoon call with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) that President Biden should end his 2024 candidacy, according to three senior House Democrats.
Before last Thursday's debate, there was good reason to doubt President Biden's chances of winning the November election: He was trailing in at least five swing states that he won in 2020, and tied in the other. Key voter groups like African Americans, Latinos, and those under 30 years of age were showing a lack of enthusiasm if not an outright urge to defect to former President Trump.
@#50 ... If you can show me where Project 2025 is getting even remotely the same kind of traction, I'll pay attention. ...
project 2025
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@#40 ... The Heritage Foundation ...
OK, let's go there...
The Heritage Foundation
en.wikipedia.org
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The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as Heritage,[1][2] is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.[4]
The Heritage Foundation has had significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and has historically been ranked among the most influential public policy organizations in the United States.[5 ...
Reagan administration
In January 1981, the Heritage Foundation published Mandate for Leadership, a comprehensive report aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. It provided public policy guidance to the incoming Reagan administration, and included over 2,000 specific policy recommendations on how the Reagan administration could utilize the federal government to advance conservative policies. The report was well received by the White House, and several of its authors went on to take positions in the Reagan administration.[16] Ronald Reagan liked the ideas so much that he gave a copy to each member of his cabinet to review.[17] Among the 2,000 Heritage proposals, approximately 60% of them were implemented or initiated by the end of Reagan's first year in office.[16][18] Reagan later called the Heritage Foundation a "vital force" during his presidency.[17]
The Heritage Foundation was influential in developing and advancing the Reagan Doctrine, a key Reagan administration foreign policy initiative under which the U.S. began providing military and other support to anti-communist resistance movements fighting Soviet-aligned governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and other nations during the final years of the Cold War.[19]
When Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in the 1980s, The Wall Street Journal later reported, "the Soviet leader offered a complaint: Reagan was influenced by the Heritage Foundation, Washington's conservative think tank. The outfit lent intellectual energy to the Gipper's agenda, including the Reagan Doctrine"the idea that America should support insurgents resisting communist domination."[20] ...
@#15 ... There WAS NOT a Kharkov offensive ...
Of course, if an offensive fails, the first thing to do is deny it ever existed.
What Next After Russia's Failed Kharkiv Offensive? (July 5, 2024)
cepa.org
... .Grim predictions that Ukraine's military would fold under renewed Russian attack proved badly wrong. But what comes next? ...
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2024 Kharkiv offensive
en.wikipedia.org
... On 10 May 2024, the Russian Armed Forces began an offensive operation in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, shelling and attempting to breach the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Vovchansk and Kharkiv.[2]
The Guardian reported that the offensive has led to Russia's biggest territorial gains in 18 months.[3]
By early June the Russian offensive stalled, with The Guardian reporting that the situation on the frontline had been "stabilized."[4] Ukrainian forces then began a concerted counterattack, which liberated its first settlement on 19 June.[ ...
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