Atomic bomb dropped on Japan’s Hiroshima 75 years ago still reverberates

Regular nosebleeds, three bouts with cancer and blinding cataracts. It’s been 75 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — marking the end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age — but survivors like Masaaki Takano still live with the consequences. “I’m mentally trying hard to pretend I’m OK,” Takano, 82, told NBC News by telephone from Japan in Japanese. For decades Takano quietly lived with his ailments. He was not recognized as a “hibakusha” — a survivor of the bombing…

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Trump’s campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden’s knocks on zero.

Donald Trump’s campaign says it knocked on over 1 million doors in the past week alone. Joe Biden’s campaign says it knocked on zero. The Republican and Democratic parties — from the presidential candidates on down — are taking polar opposite approaches to door-to-door canvassing this fall. The competing bets on the value of face-to-face campaigning during a pandemic has no modern precedent, making it a potential wild card in November, especially in close races. Biden and the Democratic National Committee aren’t sending volunteers or staffers to talk with voters…

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Republican lawmakers to universities: Show us your foreign funding

Republican lawmakers on Monday asked six universities, including Harvard and Yale, to report the sources of their foreign funding. Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and James Comer (R-Ky.) reached out in a letter to the University of Chicago, the University of Delaware, Harvard University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, asking for access to all unredacted records of gifts from or contact with foreign sources. Countries they specifically identify as suspicious sources of funding include China, Iran, Qatar, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. “to help us better understand foreign influence and investment in…

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Iran Sanctions Former Trump NSC Official

Iran over the weekend sanctioned a former top White House National Security Council member who helped drive President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Tehran. Richard Goldberg, an aide to former White House national security adviser John Bolton who spearheaded the administration’s economic sanctions on Iran, was sanctioned by Tehran for what Iranian leaders called “economic terrorism” against the country. The new actions mark another escalation in the Islamic Republic’s tit-for-tat sanction war with America. The Trump administration has crippled the Iranian economy with sanctions and aimed to bankrupt its…

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Democrats Refused To Let Barr Speak Because They Know He’s Right

Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing with Attorney General William Barr was really something to behold. Almost every Democrat played from the same playbook, starting with Chairman Jerry Nadler, who told Barr he should be ashamed of himself. One after the other, they heaped scorn on the attorney general in a build up to some question that they refused to allow Barr to answer. Here is a good mashup if you missed out on the fun for yourself. There is a serious giveaway in this tactic. When a member of…

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71 percent of Americans hope to visit family following coronavirus lockdowns, study claims

A quarter of Americans plan on taking their first post-coronavirus vacation as early as July and August of this year, according to new research. The study asked 2,000 Americans about their future travel plans in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it would take for them to feel comfortable traveling again. It turns out that 76 percent of those surveyed said they’re already planning or will start planning for their next trip sometime in 2020. Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of travel company Skyscanner, the survey found seven in 10 respondents feel an increased desire to…

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Lindsey Graham: Somebody From Obama’s FBI Needs To Go To Jail

Lindsey Graham, in an interview with Fox Business Network, declared somebody needs to go to jail after the FBI lied to Congress during their investigation of the Trump campaign . obama jail. The South Carolina Republican hinted that he was about to drop some significant information about the FBI’s dogged pursuit of collusion between the President’s team and Russia, despite the lack of evidence to support their theory . Graham told Fox Business Anchor Maria Bartiromo to “Stay tuned next week” to learn more about what he and other Senate Republicans had discovered by…

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