U.S. air strike kills 13 ISIS fighters in Somalia…
May 10, 2019
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said late on Thursday the latest strike targeted an ISIS-Somalia camp in Golis Mountains. "At this time, it is assessed the air strike on May 8 killed 13 terrorists," it said.
A Chinese national and another man have been indicted on conspiracy charges to steal personal information and commit fraud by gaining access to the database of America’s second-largest health insurer, affecting 80 million people…
May 10, 2019
The suspects are alleged to have duped the employees of Anthem into giving them unimpeded access to the data of 78,8 million customers and employees with "spearfishing" emails. When an employee clicked on a hyperlink in the email, a file was downloaded which infected their computer with malware. The malware included a back door that gave the hackers unauthorized remote access to the company's files...
Nxivm Trial: Former Sex Cult Official Describes Its ‘Evil’ Inner Workings…
May 10, 2019
It’s a fraud, it’s a lie,” an ex-Nxivm member, Mark Vicente, said about the document during his testimony on Thursday in Mr. Raniere’s sex trafficking and racketeering trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. “This well-intentioned veneer covers a horrible evil.”... Mr. Vicente said Ms. Bronfman had paid $40,000 a month to help secure patents for Mr. Raniere’s inventions... Mr. Raniere also believed that he was being spied on, Mr. Vicente said, but by the government. He testified that Mr. Raniere had told him that a profitable business he had founded was chased out of Arkansas years ago as retribution after “Bill Clinton’s people asked for some money.” And he said Mr. Raniere told him he was a “person of interest to many different authorities”...
Watch James Comey’s Town Hall with Anderson Cooper…
May 10, 2019
Thanks to Trump Gilead will donate HIV medication for up to 200,000 Americans a year…
May 10, 2019
The pledge may last up to 11 years, said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. Gilead will donate its Truvada prevention pill until a second-generation version becomes available. The Trump administration has set a goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. within 10 years.
US tariff increase on US$200 billion of Chinese imports takes effect…
China Vows to Retaliate as U.S. Tariff Hikes Take Effect...
May 10, 2019
The higher import taxes apply to Chinese goods shipped on or after Friday. That means goods that already are on the way to U.S. ports will be charged the lower earlier rate.By sea, goods sent from China take about three weeks to cross the Pacific. That gives negotiators more time to reach a possible agreement before the full force of the increase hits...
Leaker Chelsea Manning freed from U.S. jail after refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case…
May 10, 2019
“Unfortunately, even prior to her release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena. This means she is expected to appear before a different grand jury, on Thursday, May 16,” Sparrow Project quoted Manning’s legal team as saying. “It is therefore conceivable that she will once again be held in contempt of court,” and returned to the Alexandria Detention Center possibly as soon as May 16, the legal team said.
“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions.”...
Giuliani will travel to Ukraine, saying country’s probes may be ‘very, very helpful’ for Trump…
May 10, 2019
Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, who takes office in June, will assume stewardship of two major ongoing investigations. One concerns evidence that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign may have worked with Ukrainians to illegally help Clinton by revealing damaging information about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The other investigation pertains to allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in order to take the heat off the prosecutor's probe into a company that employed his son as a board member.