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WASHINGTON – The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center’s traumatic brain injury clinic at Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Naval Health Research Center at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego are developing and using cutting-edge research to better help service members, their family members and retirees. At the research center, Kristen Walter is conducting DoD’s first research …

The Senate Republicans’ tax bill hangs in the balance, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that votes would continue into Friday and GOP leaders grapple with how they can satisfy the conference’s deficit hawks. GOP leaders had previously hoped to vote the bill out of the chamber by Thursday, but during floor debate one key proposal hit a …

San Francisco (CNN)  A jury on Thursday found an undocumented immigrant not guilty in the July 2015 death of Kate Steinle, a decision that reignited the debate over immigration policy. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was acquitted of murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, as well as assault with a deadly weapon. Jurors convicted the Mexican citizen of being a felon …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the fight against the trafficking of black Africans and modern-day slavery, particularly in Libya. There is a growing trend of migrants, who get trapped in Libya, being sold off by trafficking gangs in the North African country. Reports indicate that most of …

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mr Abubakar Magaji, has owned up to administrative lapses in the purported reinstatement of dismissed former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. Magaji conceded the responsibility when he appeared before members of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the “disappearance, reappearance, reinstatement and promotion of Maina’’ in Abuja on Thursday. According to …

Britain’s ambassador to the US has conveyed to the White House the government’s concerns about Donald Trump’s promotion on Twitter of material created by the far-right group Britain First, the Guardian understands. Theresa May condemned the president’s decision on Wednesday to share propaganda videos tweeted by the deputy leader of Britain First and is expected to address the issue again …

Joel Rubenzahl is not the kind of person who seems in need of government housing assistance. He lives by himself in a four-bedroom home that he bought for $923,500 in 2000, in a genteel area of Berkeley, California. After 45 years in the business of building low-income housing, he’s semi-retired and quietly prosperous thanks to some sound investments. Yet every …

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, last Saturday, touted the achievements of the Buhari Administration, with emphasis on fiscal discipline, the fight against corruption which, according to him now makes the nation to save 25 billion naira monthly from payroll fraud. Osinbajo chose the graduation ceremony of the Senior Executive Course 39 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic …

By our correspondent A three-day Capacity Building and Stakeholders’ Engagement on Alternative Child Care has been kick started in Abeokuta by the Ogun State government. Governor Ibikunle Amosun was represented at the opening ceremony by the Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Abiola Kufile-Okonji. Speaking on the occasion, Governor Ibikunle Amosun harped on the desirability and the …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday presented a 146billion 2018 Appropriation Bill and Budget Estimates, christened ‘the Budget of Growth’ to the State House of Assembly with the assurance to consolidate on the infrastructural and socio-economic gains of the outgoing year 2017. Obaseki commended the Speaker and members of the Edo State House of Assembly for …