Saturday, July 27, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump may not be done building up the country’s military. Speaking at a welcoming ceremony at the Pentagon for newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday, Trump hinted he is planning to continue to increase the Defense Department budget.
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress establishes the U.S. postal service and names Benjamin Franklin the postmaster general. This created the framework for today’s United States Postal Service. The USPS today has over 40,000 post offices and delivers 212 billion items each year throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the American Virgin Islands. It employees over 700,000 workers making it the second largest employer in the U.S.
North Korea has formally announced its latest ballistic missile test, saying the launch was a warning to “military warmongers” in South Korea who are set to soon hold joint military exercises with the United States.
The White House on Thursday blasted a federal court action temporarily blocking the administration from enforcing a directive that disqualifies a significant proportion of mostly Central American asylum-seekers who reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tech savvy farmers in Nigeria are using a farming technique known as aeroponics, in which plants are grown in humid air. The practice is not well known in Nigeria, but those using it are on a mission to make it more popular. 
Four mass graves with dozens of bodies believed to be Kurds killed by the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s forces were found in the desert of al-Muthanna province in southern Iraq.

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