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California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Bear Arms
Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital. They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came [...]
U.S. Calls North Korean Threats Hyperbolic
North Korea’s threats of preemptive nuclear strikes are “hyperbolic,” U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said, as the totalitarian state’s leader Kim Jong Un told troops to prepare for war. Kim yesterday told front line units that “every day is a state of war,” official media reported. North Korea shut down a border hot line [...]
U.S. Demands China Block Cyber attacks and Agree to Rules
WASHINGTON — The White House demanded Monday that the Chinese government stop the widespread theft of data from American computer networks and agree to “acceptable norms of behavior in cyberspace.” The demand, made in a speech byPresident Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, was the first public confrontation with China over cyberespionage and came two days after its foreign [...]
Yen Drops to 3 1/2-Year Low on BOJ Easing Expectations
The yen dropped to a 3 1/2-year low as Bank of Japan (8301) deputy governor nominee Kikuo Iwata said decisive monetary easing is needed, fanning speculation the central bank will boost cash infusions in coming months. The currency slid against all of its 16 major peers as BOJ data showed today that prices for goods paid by [...]