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Upll LePage nominates Brian Whitney to lead Maine Technology Institute
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?D stanley borraccia irector of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two veteran intelligence officials because they oppose President Donald Trump, her office said, coming a week after the release of a declassified memo written by their agency that contradicted statements the Trump administration has used to justify deporting Venezuelan immigrants.Mike Collins was serving as acting chair of the National Intelligence Council before he was dismissed alongside his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof. They each had more than 25 years of intelligence experience. The two were fired because of their opposition to Trump, Gabbard office said in an email, without offering examples. The director is working alongside President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community, the office said.The firings, which were first reported by Fox News Digital, follow the release of a declassified memo from the National Intelligence Council that found no coordination between Venezuela government and the Tren de Aragua gang. The Trump administration ha stanley spain d given that as reasoning for invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting V stanley cup enezuelan immigrants. The intelligence assessment was released in response to an open records request.While it not uncommon for new administrations to replace senior officials with their own picks, the firings of two respected intelligence officials who had served presidents of both parties prompted concern from Democrats. U.S Qtgf Pennsylvania high court rules against two third-party candidates trying for presidential ballot
PARIS 鈥?France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. litigation.About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War II and transported in appalling conditions in railway boxcars to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where most died.In 199 stanley thermosflasche 5 Frances then-president, Jacques Chirac, officially acknowledged for the first time French complicity in the wartime deportations. But it was only in 2009 that Frances highest court recognized the states responsibility.Several state legislatures in the United States, including Maryland and New York, have previously threatened to pass legislation that would block the SNCF from bidding in rail projects unless it paid compensation to U.S. victims.The compensation deal, which will be signed in Washington on Dec. 8, is open to people from all countries with the exception of Britain, Po stanley uk land, Belgium and the Czech Republic, which already have bilateral agreements with France, said Patrizianna Sparacino, who negotiated the accord for Paris.Several hundred people including survivors and family members have already been identified for compensation, i stanley cup nitially from the United States and Israel.The total number of those compensated will run into the thousands, Sparacino said. For now the objective is that those survivors from the deportations would get roughly $ |
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