Roland Lajoie, Army General at the Cold War’s Front Lines, Dies at 87
Part officer, part diplomat, part spy, he led military inspections in East Germany and later oversaw the destruction of Soviet nuclear weapons.
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Russia relishes divisions between China and the U.S., pouring cold water on Xi-Biden talks
Russia is attempting to make the APEC summit, and talks between Xi and Biden, look like a diplomatic and geopolitical failure.
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TVA, Nashville Electric Service use rolling blackouts to manage grid in frigid cold
Winter Storm Elliott, a “bomb cyclone,” plunged temperatures below zero in Nashville and caused power outages for tens of thousands of residents.
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Biden sees no need for ‘a new Cold War’ with China after three-hour meeting with Xi Jinping
President Joe Biden said there “need not be a new Cold War” between the U.S. and China following a three-hour meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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