Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today. In the previous quarter, Q4 2019, real GDP had increased 2.1 percent. In the full year 2019, real GDP increased 2.3 percent, and in 2018, it increased 2.9 percent. The…
Terrorist Attack in Syria Kills Dozens
April 28, 2020
A terrorist attack in Syria has killed “dozens of people”, with reports of at least 40 people killed and another 47 wounded. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Turkey, blamed the attack on YPG, a Kurdish-militia in Syria. However, the YPG has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.…
U.S. Confirms Killing of Two Civilians in Somalia Air Strike
April 28, 2020
The United States has confirmed that during a February 2019 air strike in Somalia, “two civilians were regrettably and unintentionally killed and three were injured”. Two al-Shabaab terrorists, who were also killed in the strike, were the intended targets. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported the civilian casualties in a “commitment…
DOD Releases Declassified Videos of UFOs
April 27, 2020
The Department of Defense (DOD) has officially authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, seeming to show UFOs, and which had been leaked to the public back in 2017. The videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, show a Navy pilot’s radar locking…