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Putin, Abe agree on ‘framework’ to finalize WWII peace treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed to set up a framework to intensify peace treaty negotiations that were stalled decades ago, after Japan aligned militarily with the US. “We talked about the need to set up additional mechanisms for interaction, about the need to increase the level of confidence on both sides, to expand our humanitarian contacts and our economic ties,” Putin said in Argentina, following talks with the Japanese leader there. During their …

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Trade truce? Xi & Trump put tariff war on hold at 2.5-hour dinner in Argentina

The two-and-a-half-hour dinner shared by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Argentina, where they repeatedly emphasized their great friendship, has ended with an apparent ‘trade truce’ but no immediate groundbreaking results . The leaders have reached a consensus that trade talks should continue and have agreed not to impose any additional tariffs, at least for now. “President Trump has agreed that on January 1, 2019, he will leave the tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10% rate, …

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US Navy probes abrupt death of 5th fleet commander in Bahrain, sees ‘no foul play’

The commander of US naval forces in the Middle East, Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, has been found dead at his residence in Bahrain. The US Navy investigating the Fifth Fleet chief’s death said no foul play is suspected at this point. Stearney, who had taken over the command of the Fifth Fleet only in May, was found dead in his quarters in Bahrain on Saturday. “The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Bahraini Ministry of Interior are cooperating on the …

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‘Leave it to CNN’: Critics blast NPR for fake bombshell on Trump Jr. lying to Senate

A much-quoted National Public Radio story about Donald Trump Jr, Michael Cohen and talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 election campaign was shown to be factually wrong, but NPR has not retracted it yet. Amid the wave of “end for Trump” media euphoria that followed Thursday’s guilty plea by Cohen, who had been President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, NPR ran a story about how Trump Jr’s testimony in September 2017 did not square with Cohen’s admissions to a …

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FBI raids home of whistleblower who had ‘dirt’ on Clinton Foundation, Mueller

More than a dozen FBI agents searched for six hours the house of a contractor who had given Congress and the DOJ documents about the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One scandal, implicating then-FBI director Robert Mueller. Sixteen agents showed up at the Maryland home of Dennis Nathan Cain on November 19, the Daily Caller reported this week, citing Cain’s attorney Michael Socarras. They demanded to see the documents Cain had already turned over to the Department of Justice inspector-general …

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Marriott mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests’ data exposed over 4 years

A massive security breach of Marriott’s Starwood hotel reservation database has exposed the personal information – including passport numbers, birthdays, and in some cases credit card numbers – of as many as 500 million guests. Unidentified hackers had had access to the hotel chain’s reservation database since 2014, Marriott International admitted, stating that management only discovered the breach after an internal security tool alerted them in September to an unauthorized attempt to access the Starwood database. Read more At least …

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Terrified passengers watch their jet engine falling apart on takeoff (VIDEOS)

Dozens of passengers of a Frontier Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Florida have suffered probably the most chilling 15 minutes of their lives, after an engine on their jet was partially torn apart, forcing an emergency landing. A section of the jet engine cowling was torn apart after it came loose during Frontier Flight 260’s takeoff in Nevada Friday morning, prompting shocked passengers to “jump up screaming.” Footage of the incident, taken by several people on board the Airbus …

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Michael Cohen’s plea: ‘End of Trump’ or another Russiagate fizzle?

His former attorney Michael Cohen’s guilty plea deal is bad news for President Donald Trump, but hardly the end of the world. You wouldn’t know that if you were only paying attention to mainstream media, though. Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to making false statements to Congress in 2017. The statements related to a 2016 plan by then-candidate Trump to build a Trump Tower property in Moscow. The plan was eventually shelved, but Cohen initially said it had been axed …

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