White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 28, 2020

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What you need to know about Trump's SCOTUS pick and the confirmation process
President Trump announced yesterday he's nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat.
Republicans, who control the Senate, have outlined a swift confirmation process, but many Democrats say the vacancy shouldn't be filled until after Election Day...

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks Sunday about President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
'Summon Your Conscience': Biden Implores GOP Senators To Wait On SCOTUS Nomination

Sep. 28 - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday implored Senate Republicans not to act on President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court until after the American people finish selecting their next president.

"There are Senate Republicans out there who know in their hearts that if they shut out the voices of those during a voting period, during an election, they're closing the door on American democracy thereafter," Biden said during a speech in his hometown of Wilmington, Del.

"I urge every senator to take a step back from the brink, take off the blinders of politics for just one critical moment, and stand up for the Constitution you swore to uphold," said Biden, a longtime former senator himself. "Just because you have the power to do something doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to do right by the American people. Uphold your constitutional duty, summon your conscience."     continue to read

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China prepares to fly fighter jets over Taiwan

Sep. 27 - China seems set to overfly Taiwan with fighter jets. Such an operation would be designed to warn the United States against increasing its support for Taiwan. And second, to test whether President Tsai Ing-wen is willing to fire on Chinese aircraft.

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 27, 2020

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Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EIL, ICAO: PAEI, FAA LID: EIL) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska and just southeast of Moose Creek, Alaska. It was established in 1943 as Mile 26 Satellite Field and taken off deployment in 2007. It has been a Superfund site since 1989.[2] Eielson AFB was named in honor of polar pilot Carl Ben Eielson.[3]

Its host unit is the 354th Fighter Wing (354 FW) assigned to the Eleventh Air Force of the Pacific Air Forces. The 354 FW's primary mission is to support Red Flag – Alaska, a series of Pacific Air Forces commander–directed field training exercises for U.S. Forces, joint offensive counter-air, interdiction, close-air support, and large force employment training in a simulated combat environment. These exercises are conducted on the Joint Pacific Alaskan Range complex with air operations flown out of the two bases.[4]

Eielson was projected to have 54 F-35s arriving in April 2020 and continuing through 2022. The planes were to come with an estimated 3,500 personnel, to include airmen and their families as well as civilian personnel.[5] The F-35 program will increase the number of military personnel at Eielson by about 50 percent, which is a significant change for a base once on the brink of closure.[6]

Distant Frontier on the Last Frontier
Sep. 23 - Distant Frontier provides units an opportunity both before and after RF-A to train in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, drop live and inert weapons, and fight against the 18th Aggressor Squadron’s F-16 Fighting Falcons and surface-to-air threat simulators on the range.

“It provides an opportunity for greater integration, face-to-face mission planning, briefing and debriefing that otherwise would not be possible,” said Capt. Christopher Ellsworth, the RF-A 21-1 team lead.

Distant Frontier also allows units to focus on specific desired learning objectives...     more

The first F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing lands at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 21, 2020. A total of 54 F-35As will be stationed at Eielson AFB by the end of 2021, which will make Alaska the most concentrated state for combat-coded fifth-generation aircraft

Why Pentagon is Beefing Up Its Alaska Presence ‘Literally in Sight’ of Russian Border

Last week, Alaskan Senator Dan Sullivan announced that the US Air Force would deploy 150 F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to his state, and said that they, as well as the construction of America's first deepwater port in the Arctic Circle, will send a ‘message’ to Russia and China about US power projection capabilities in the Arctic.

Sep. 26 - The 150 Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II jets expected to be deployed to Alaska will constitute one of the largest, if not the biggest single US deployment of fifth-generation stealth fighters anywhere in the world, given estimates that the Air Force at present operates 187 F-22s and fewer than 250 F-350s in total.
The 356th Fighter Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base in central Alaska received its first two F-35s in April, with four more on loan from Hill Air Force Base in Utah for training purposes. The 356th was reactivated in October 2019, becoming both the northernmost US fighter squadron, and said to be capable of targeting any part of either Europe or the Asia-Pacific region, according to military officials.

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White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 26, 2020

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Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972)[1][2] is an American lawyer, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Barrett considers herself a public-meaning originalist; her judicial philosophy has been likened to that of her mentor and former boss, Antonin Scalia.[3] Barrett's scholarship focuses on originalism.

Barrett was nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by President Donald Trump on May 8, 2017 and confirmed by the Senate on October 31, 2017. While serving on the federal bench, she was a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where she has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.[4][2][5][6] Eleven months after her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017, Barrett was added to President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees.[7] On September 25, 2020, it was reported by multiple U.S. media outlets that Trump intended to nominate Barrett on September 26, 2020 to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court.[8]

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 25, 2020

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People crowd together without masks to attend a campaign rally by President Donald Trump at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 24, 2020. [Tom Brenner/Reuters]

19:30 ET – Trump campaigns before a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida

President Donald Trump campaigned outdoors before a large crowd, many without masks in Jacksonville, Florida. Polls show Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in a tight race in Florida.

“I just wish the cameras would show the crowd. They don’t want to do that. They don’t like to do that,” Trump said.
“It’s interesting, when Biden comes to Florida he has like one, two, three people,” Trump said. “He has a hard time filling up the circles.”     source

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Deadline Now: Donald Trump Booed At Memorial, White House Calls It “Appalling,” Nancy Pelosi Tweets “Vote Him Out”

Sep. 24 - The president and the first lady visited the casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday, and all did not go as planned. They were booed and then met by chants of “Vote Him Out.”

It set off conflicting choruses of pro and con responses.

White House Press Secretary Kaley McEnany called the boos “appalling.”

Nancy Pelosi shared the video along with some words of advice.

Trump, for his part, claimed he didn’t even hear the boos.     source

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
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PRESIDENT TRUMP CAMPAIGN RALLY IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDAPresident Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida.

Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida
Sep. 24, 2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 24, 2020

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President Donald Trump speaks during a Wednesday news conference in the briefing room of the White House.
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Trump says Kentucky attorney general is ‘handling’ Breonna Taylor situation ‘very well’ and refuses to commit to peaceful transition of power

President suggests he might not allow FDA to tighten standards for an emergency-use authorization of a coronavirus vaccinea

Sep. 24 - President Donald Trump, saying he needed to take a phone call, departed Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing as a reporter asked him about protests in Louisville, Ky., after no police officer was charged directly over the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

One officer was charged with wanton endangerment for firing shots into neighboring apartments. Trump applauded Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s response to the case.

“He’s handling it very well,” Trump said, after reading a statement from Cameron that said justice is beholden “only to the facts and to the law.”

“If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice,” said Cameron, a Republican, who is often described as a protégé of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...     more

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Hundreds of people gathered for protests in Lousiville following the announcement of a grand jury's indictment of just one of the three officers involved in the fatal killing of Breonna Taylor. File Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE

Protesters gather in Louisville after no officers directly charged in Breonna Taylor killing

Sep. 24 - Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Louisville to march in protest of a grand jury's decision to indict just one of three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.