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A Justice Department spokesman said late Wednesday that it would give all members of the Intelligence Committee access to the document, but that it still contained some redactions “narrowly tailored to protect the name of a foreign country and the name of a foreign agent.” “These words must remain redacted after determining that revealing the …
Read moreHouse Intelligence Committee gets Russia document they demanded
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — Outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo will tell senators weighing his confirmation as secretary of state that years of soft U.S. policy toward Russia are “now over.” That’s according to excerpts of his opening statement obtained by …
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NBC News conducted the extensive surveys of the South in order to capture residents’ attitudes in the fast-changing region of the country. Overall, the polls found voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia to be optimistic about the economy, amenable to immigration, approving of same-sex marriage …
Read moreNBC News poll: The South, once a conservative bastion, is changing
The beleaguered retailer, which employs 2,700 people in the UK, said 11 of the sites earmarked for closure had already stopped trading. The move follows a review of its property portfolio which found 205 sites were underperforming or on unfavourable lease terms. Carpetright said it hoped to relocate affected staff – and said rent would …
Scotland Yard Commissioner Cressida Dick took part in the raids across west and south west London, targeting a notorious gang whose trade in drugs is, according to police, helping fuel violence. The raids are the culmination of several months of covert work by members of the Metropolitan Police’s Trident gang unit. More than 200 officers …
Mr Fleming, who has worked in intelligence for over two decades and was the deputy director-general of MI5 before joining GCHQ, said: “We must not, and have not, forgotten the old foes.” He said the attack on Yulia and Sergei Skripal by a military-grade nerve agent in Salisbury was “a sobering thought” and showed “how …
Read moreNerve agent attack shows ‘how reckless Russia can be’
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) also found UK house prices remained unchanged for a second straight month. The zero movement marks the joint weakest reading since February 2013. The flow of homes coming on the market also slowed again making it the seventh month that surveyors reported a fall in the number of …
The Big Six energy provider said households on its standard variable electricity tariff would be affected and see their bills go up by £16 a year to £1,158. Charges for customers who pay with cash or by cheque will also rise by £6 a year. This means customers on a dual fuel standard variable tariff …
Hassan al Kontar, 36, says he risks being arrested by Syrian authorities if he returns home after refusing to do military service. For the past 37 days he has been stuck in Kuala Lumpur airport, living on airline food and sleeping in the terminal. “I don’t know how long I will be here. I know …
The animation, which makes plumes of cloud appear like lava flows, uses imagery collected by an infrared mapper aboard NASA’s Juno probe during its fourth pass over the planet. The temperature of Jupiter’s atmosphere was sensed by infrared cameras and in the moving images yellow areas are warmer – or deeper into Jupiter’s atmosphere. The …