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Three years gone, thousands of lives lost, tens of billions in debt-funded spending, and we’re right back where we started, with a permanent entanglement in the longest war in U.S. history. President Trump plans to pull about 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan early in 2020, officials in his administration reported in mid-December, a partial withdrawal that would put American force levels in our longest war exactly where they were when Trump entered office. Three years gone, thousands of American and Afghan lives lost, tens of billions in debt-funded spending, and we’re right back where we started, with an apparently permanent...

Rex Tillerson's speech to assembled employees at the US State Department. He noted that his wife said in urging him to accept the nomination that "Your career until now has been a 41 year training program for this job." https://www.facebook.com/newshour/videos/10155043859978675/

Politician-turned-author Edwina Currie, pouring scorn on her contrite ex-lover, accused John Major on Wednesday of behaving "atrociously" for saying he was ashamed of the four-year affair they had before he became Britain's prime minister. Far from wanting to end the liaison, Currie said in her first interview since publication of her bombshell dairies, Major lured her into his private office and tried to seduce her over a glass of tomato juice within weeks after she had decided to call it quits. Her remarks on British Broadcasting Corp. radio sounded the opening volley of a trans-Atlantic battle between the ex-lovers in...