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Starr at the pentagon. Barbara, were talking about 2,800 u. S. Troops en route now to the middle east. What do we know about where theyre coming from . Well, these are troops coming from ft. Bragg, north carolina. The orders had already been issued, it was all expected. But now today the first of those troops getting on planes, making their way to kuwait, on standby there if iran retaliates, something the pentagon obviously very concerned about. President trumps top military advisor, general mark milley, not ruling out a possible retaliatory attack from iran. When compelling intelligence in re...

The proposal still needs the support of 10 Republican senators to break a filibuster.

The UFLPA will stand, or fall, on the degree of enforcement and global cooperation.

House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol AP By Alex Rogers, CNN The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice. The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill. The House passed a similar resolution last year on a bipartisan basis but it stalled after Republicans in the Senate argued that the states should decid...

New Delhi and Beijing The political head of Tibetans in exile on Tuesday welcomed legislation passed by the United States Congress that reaffirms the rights of Tibetans to choose a successor to their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a move that infuriated China. The legislation calls for the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Tibet’s main city of Lhasa, the absolute right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the Dalai Lama, and the preservation of Tibet’s environment. The measure was tacked onto the year-end spending bill approved by both chambers of Congress on Monday, which also inc...