Tag: attempt
Trump assassination attempt, plain government language
Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, I wanted to say the following: I have friends who hate Trump and friends who love him. I would ask my liberal …
CIA did not buy Erdoğan government’s story on 2016 coup attempt
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Two inside sources from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have cast doubt on the Turkish government’s narrative regarding a coup attempt in 2016, which many believe was a false flag operation designed to consolidate the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In his book titled “Never Give an Inch,” released last year, …
How federal agencies are responding to Trump assassination attempt
Federal agencies across government are deploying personnel and resources in response to the assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday, which left Trump mostly unharmed but at least one bystander at the Pennsylvania campaign rally dead. The FBI has taken the lead of the investigation, though the Secret Service and several other agencies remain heavily …
US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining
The fast-growing cryptocurrency industry is a major consumer of electricity, but no one—not even the U.S. government—knows exactly how much energy goes into the armada of computers used to ‘mine’ Bitcoin and other digital assets. The U.S. Energy Information Agency estimates that cryptocurrency mining uses between 0.6 percent and 2.3 percent of all electricity per …