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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 10:20 AM USNI News Graphic These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Jan. 11, 2021, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship. Total U.S. Navy Battle Force: 297 In Japan EA-18G Growlers, assigned to the ‘Black Ravens’ ...

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna As the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings continued its proceedings, the petitioners and their counsels at the weekend lauded the panel for upholding the constitutional and judicial tenets of setting up the panel. Similarly, the parents of the boy chased to death in September by a combined team of Security operatives have finally approached the Panel to seek redress. This was contained in a...

Biden Must Succeed Where Obama Failed, and Finally Close Guantanamo | Opinion Mohamedou Ould Salahi On 1/11/21 at 2:13 PM EST Twelve years ago this month, I sat in my cell in the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, staring at one of the most beautiful photographs I had ever seen: Barack Obama, inaugurated as President of the United States the day before, signing an Executive Order to close Guantanamo within a year. Then-Vice President Joe Biden praised the order, saying "...

Share Scores have been reported killed in a clash between residents of Ilesha-Baruba in the Baruten local government area of Kwara State and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces deployed to the area on Joint Border Drill. Tribune Online gathered that cause of the Friday fracas was linked to alleged market booking fare in Sinawu market, located in the area, between the men of the military and commercial drivers carrying rice to the market. It was gathered that the commercial driver had reportedly gi...

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Signs Series of Critical Criminal Justice Reform Bills Current Michigan Gov. and former Ford School faculty Gretchen Whitmer delivering a speech in 2015. Image via Flickr/user:FordSchool. (CCA-BY-2.0). The wide-ranging set of bills impact everything from the availability of juvenile records to drug offender’s eligibility for federal benefits. Earlier this week, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a series of criminal justice bills, which restrict the public’s access...

USNI News USNI News 2020 Fleet and Marine Review January 8, 2021 6:33 PM When 2020 closed, the Navy’s aircraft carrier forces spent a collective 896 days deployed across the world – 200 more days than in 2019. As reported by USNI News in November, the carrier force has been under strain over the last 20 years, and the use of the force accelerated in 2020. Likewise, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps amphibious ready groups and Marine expeditionary units saw deployments to the Western Pacific and U....

U.S. airstrike on Somalia kills 5 al-Shabaab members By (0) Five people believed to be al-Shabaab members, including one leader, were killed in a joint U.S.-Somali airstrike in the vicinity of Saaxa Weyne, Somalia, Thursday. Image via Google Satellite Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Five people believed to be al-Shabaab members, including one leader, were killed in a joint U.S.-Somali airstrike in the vicinity of Saaxa Weyne, Somalia, Thursday. According to U.S. Africa Command, no civilians were injured or k...

AFRICOM airstrike in Somalia claims 5 lives By AT editor - 8 January 2021 at 10:51 pm Five al-Shabaab members have died in an airstrike in Somalia, according to the United States Africa Command. The U.S. strike targeted al-Shabaab leaders near Saaxa Weyne, AFRICOM said. No civilians were injured or killed during the operation. “This strike targeted known al-Shabaab leaders who facilitated finance, weapons, fighters, and explosives. One is suspected of being involved in a previous attack ag...

A state task force is meeting regularly, charged by the Legislature to figure out how a single -payer health care plan might work in Oregon. It’s a big deal. Single payer is often called “Medicare for all.” It would be a lot like Medicare in that everyone would have the same health insurance plan, though people get to choose where they get care. Could it be an improvement? Yes. There’s sure room for improvement. But there also are complicated problems to sort out and others ...

The year 2020 was marked by the role of feminist and social movements in helping bring about immense political changes in Latin America and the Caribbean despite the COVID-19 pandemic.