#Former US ambassador charged with spying for Cuba

#Former US ambassador charged with spying for Cuba

A former U.S. diplomat is accused of conducting a more than 40-year secretive campaign to spy on behalf of the Cuban government. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday it was charging Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of working as a covert agent with Cuba’s General Directorate of Intelligence since at least 1981 — the year he…

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#Kirby defends US approach in Israel when pressed on red lines

#Kirby defends US approach in Israel when pressed on red lines

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby defended on Sunday the United States’s diplomatic approach in the Israel-Hamas war and would not commit to imposing any hard red lines on support for Israel. “We believe that the approach that we’ve been taking, Margaret, has had an effect,” Kirby told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the…

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#DeSantis PAC CEO out in latest shakeup

#DeSantis PAC CEO out in latest shakeup

Never Back Down – the super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis – has parted ways with its interim chief executive officer after she served nine days on the job. Kristin Davison replaced former CEO Chris Jankowski on Nov. 22. Jankowski said in a statement through a group spokesperson that “it has become untenable…

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#In Vietnam, Henry Kissinger was worse than a fraud

#In Vietnam, Henry Kissinger was worse than a fraud

Two quotes endure from the final years of the Vietnam War. The first is “Peace is at hand,” uttered by Henry Kissinger on October 26, 1972, when he swore he’d reached a solution with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho for ending the war. The bad guys — the “North” Vietnamese and their southern affiliate, the…

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