Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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Democratic presidential contenders targeted front-runner Bernie Sanders in a raucous debate late Tuesday, contending that the self-declared democratic socialist would lose to Republican President Donald Trump in November’s national election if he is the party’s nominee.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On Feb. 26, 1993, Islamic terrorists explode a truck bomb in the basement of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The plan was to knock the north tower into the south tower, and while that didn’t happen, six people were killed, and over 1,000 were injured. The perpetrators received financing from long-time terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was arrested in 2003 in his home country of Pakistan.

U.S. military officials in South Korea Wednesday confirmed the first infection of a U.S. service member with the coronavirus. The patient, a 23-year-old male, has been placed in self-quarantine at his off-base residence.

The top U.S. commander in Europe is warning of daunting amounts of Chinese investment in European seaports and increases in Russian submarine activity outside of Europe.

VIDEO: A Sunday school in a northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. is teaching the Uighur language and culture to Uighur-American youngsters as a way to counter the repression in China against Uighurs in Xinjiang Province. The school, Ana Care & Education, was founded in 2017 and was the first Sunday school in the U.S. to offer these courses

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt moved this week to restore mail service to Qatar in another sign that the embargo imposed by four Sunni Arab states nearly three years ago is starting to crumble.