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Shanghai Academy acts as a front for Chinese spy recruitment, according to FBI The Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington, D.C., think tank, partnered with a Shanghai policy center that the FBI has described as a front for China’s intelligence and spy recruitment operations, according to public records and federal court documents. The Brookings Doha Center, the think tank’s hub in Qatar, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in January 2018, the institution said. The academy is a policy center funded by the Shanghai municipal government that has raised flags within the FBI. The partnership...

The author sounds vindictive and mean-spirited who the reader feels has lost his way in life. Everyone knows that boys don’t kiss and tell, and here we have this clod barking as if he is a Philadelphia Phillies fan heckling the San Francisco Giant’s right fielder. As readers we become simultaneously angry about his callous disparagement of women and sorry for whatever is torturing his psyche. You can read an avalanche of reactions to the Christine O’Donnell one night stand claims here and here and satirically here. So who is this fellow who wrote it? That is a less interesting...

BISBEE — U.S. Border Patrol agents working west of Douglas arrested 77 Mexican nationals after camera operators identified them crossing the border on Saturday evening. This is the second apprehension of a large group of illegal immigrants in the same area between Douglas and Naco, Ariz., in the past two weeks, Tucson Sector spokesman Mike Scioli told the Herald/Review on Monday. On Jan. 26, 53 illegal immigrants were taken into custody at one time. Again, the effort was the result of a coordination between agents of the Douglas and Naco stations, along with Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine....

The Baton Rouge police union encouraged its members and their families to apply for American Red Cross hurricane benefits "whether you sustained a loss, or not," an internal memo obtained last week shows. The Sept. 19 notice sent via Baton Rouge Police Department e-mail refers to the charity's financial assistance debit cards for Hurricane Katrina victims as "gift cards," and insists they were a special benefit for union members. "If you live in one of the attached ZIP Codes you need to go by the Electrical Workers local Hall and get your Red Cross gift card, by Saturday 9/24/05," says...

Nagin tired of traveling to BR for N.O. briefingsNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is tired of traveling to Baton Rouge to talk to his constituents. Nagin ended his latest weekly briefing on the status of his city Wednesday by saying he no longer wants to meet at the State Capitol. "If we're going to talk about New Orleans, let's do it in New Orleans," he said. State Sen. Ed Murray, D-New Orleans, who has been arranging the meetings, said he picked Baton Rouge because so many evacuees from New Orleans are staying here. Murray said he doesn't plan to move...

US begins the process of 'regime change' Ed Vulliamy in New York and Kamal AhmedSunday April 6, 2003The Observer The US is ready to install the first leg of an interim government for the new Iraq as early as Tuesday, even while fighting still rages in Baghdad, officials said yesterday. America's readiness to establish the first stages of a civil administration to run post-war Iraq comes at lightning speed and constitutes a rebuff to European ambitions to stall on the process until some kind of role for the United Nations is agreed. It was reported yesterday that the National Security...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/25/02 Asadabad, Kabul, Pul-i-Charkhi, Kandahar Taliban cemetery, Kandahar, Peshawar, Pakistan, Shamshatu refugee camp, Jerusalem, Israel, Barriers at Abu Dis, Dir al-Balah, Gaza, Berlin, Dresden, Geneva, Red Cross, Kartaly, Russia, Cape Canaveral, Atlas V ===================== Kabul =================== In Bagram, US soldiers hunt Al Qaeda who launched rockets near Asadabad. In Kabul, Afghans and the ISAF, International Security Assistance Force. In Kabul, from the Pakistan border, 1.5 million Afghan refugees have returned since ~1,800 families per day. In Pul-i-Charkhi, east of Kabul, Afghans arrive from Pakistan and Iran . ===================== Kandahar =================== In Kandahar,...