Epstein Secrets

inistration and that follow an executive order last week directing federal agencies to review policies to root out systemic racism." Reuters (1/26, Lynch, Hunnicutt) reports Biden "said he believes the vast majority of Americans believe in equality." Biden said, "We've never fully lived up to the foun

withdraw more than 3,000 US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq prior to leaving office, according to defense officials. However, Austin's spokesman, John Kirby, "said officials hadn't yet made a formal decision to review troop levels in either country." Yemenis Submit Petition Seeking Redress For US Drone

officials should place an emphasis on investigating and prosecuting hate crimes, while increasing community outreach, Garland said." Reuters (3/30, Lynch) reports that "in his first memo to employees since taking over" the department, "Garland said he wants to find ways to improve reporting of hate cr

civilian employees." Defense Department policy "provides that service members may hold extremist ideologies but not act on them." Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday "described his own extremism briefing earlier in the day and explained Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hopes for the 60-day forcewide e

n the story was provided by the Washington Post (08/12, Barrett, Dawsey, et al.), New York Times (08/12, Goldman, Haberman, Thrush), Reuters (08/12, Lynch), Associated Press (08/12, Miller, Balsamo), Politico (08/12, Gerstein, Sakellariadis), Fox News (08/12, Betz), CNN (08/12, Lyngaas, Perez, Holmes),

s about a potential retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah following the killings of militant leaders in Tehran and Beirut. The articles mentioned that John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, stated that Iran's response to the killings might occur sometime this week. Still, it's currently unce

ew York Times WASHINGTON SCHEDULE IN THE NEWS U.S. Charges Hamas Leaders in Oct. 7 Massacre in Israel and Other Terrorist Attacks Reuters (09/03, Lynch, Goudsward) reported that the United States has filed criminal charges against top leaders of Hamas for their involvement in the October 7th attack

t of that aim," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. The Associated Press (09/03, Tucker) reported that national security spokesman John Kirby said the recent "executions" of six hostages, including one American, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, by Hamas underscore "the sense of urgency" in the talks