President Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a second time: a two-day summit in Vietnam at month’s end. The announcement was perhaps the most significant national-security development in his 82-minute State of the Union speech. Trump touted his relationship with Kim. “If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea with potentially millions of people killed,” he said. There is no ev...
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
READ MORE
|
A partnership between the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reached a new high point as the agencies realize tangible results at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. The FHCC began using DLA Troop Support Medical supply chain’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor program in March. This is the first time a VA-administered medical facility will use the DLA Troop Support Medical program to acquire medical and surgical items through the program&r...
READ MORE
|
Oil prices eased on Monday as traders took profit ahead of fresh European and U.S. economic data, despite hopes for some resolution to the U.S.-China trade row that has hurt global economic growth and crimped energy demand. Prices jumped about $2 a barrel on Friday after the world’s top two economies said they had made progress on trade talks while U.S. officials said the deal could be signed this month. Brent crude futures for January LCOc1 fell 16 cents to $61.53 a barrel by 0727 GMT, wh...
REUTERS
READ MORE
|
More than 35 million people around the world are subject to modern-day slavery, a quarter of them children. Victims include women who are trafficked for prostitution or forced marriage and people coerced into bonded or forced labor. In recent years, there has been a growing international effort to persuade governments to address modern slavery more aggressively, including by holding companies legally accountable for abuses in their global supply chains. This initiative has been led by orga...
FORBES
READ MORE
|
The Georgia Cotton Commission is pleased to announce the guest speakers at the Commission's 10th Annual Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center. The annual meeting is held in conjunction with the UGA Cotton Production Workshop conducted by the UGA Research & Extension Cotton Team....
GEORGIA.GOV
READ MORE
|
Following Sunday’s bombing in Baghdad—which the Iraqi government now says killed 250 people, making it ISIS’s deadliest-ever bombing against civilians—The Washington Post reported that the website of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior had been hacked....
THE ATLANTIC
READ MORE
|