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TOP NEWS
The disinformation campaign of 2016 is back and more sophisticated.
American and allied officials said on Thursday that they had intelligence that surface-to-air missiles fired by Iranian military forces shot down the Boeing 737 minutes after it took off from Tehran, headed for Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Iran said they’re willing to hand over the black boxes from the crash.
After viewing the evidence, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the possibility that the flight had been shot down, killing all 176 onboard, “cannot be ruled out but is not currently confirmed.”
The U.S. added 145,000 jobs in December, marking a record 10 years of job growth.
Boeing released internal communications that showed employees persuaded airline and government officials to conclude that flight-sim training wasn’t necessary for the 737 Max.
A federal judge ruled that construction of a private border wall in Texas can proceed over objections of the U.S. government.
THE ELECTION
THE COMMENT
““One of the sacred principles in U.S. history has been that presidents are supposed to tell the public the truth... So this is a new kind of Republican that refuses to ever admit culpability or a mistake and is willing to destroy not just institutions but fact-based thinking, empirical thinking.” - Presidential historian Doug Brinkley
THE STRANGEST
THE AV ROOM