Rafale F3-R Standard Aircraft Enters French Service Our Bureau 1401
Rafale F3-R standard showing its weapons, targeting pods: Image via DGA
The French Air and Space Army and the Navy signed the operational entry-into-service agreement of the F3-R standard, the most advanced version of the Rafale jet.
The operational commissioning (MSO) of the F3-R standard is the final stage of the program which formalizes the opening of all the expected capacities.
The new features operationalized are the Meteor missile, the GBU-16 laser-guided bomb and the TALIOS targeting pod. As part of this ramp-up, the French Air and Space Army carried out its first operational flight with a Rafale equipped with Meteor war-bearing missiles on Thursday, March 4.
Stop AAPI Hate: Industry Heavyweights, Activists On Hollywood s Responsibility
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Flabbergasted on a Zoom call, “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao accepted the Golden Globe for best director on Sunday night. Between gratitude and marveling over the historic moment, as the first person of Asian descent and second woman ever to win the prize, came a somber question.
Zhao was asked for her thoughts on increased violence against Asian American Pacific Islander communities in America, an abhorrent trend of hate crimes in the past months that only began to gain national media attention recently thanks to celebrity outcry and the social media reach of activists like Nobel prize nominee Amanda Nguyen.
Democrats take fight for voting access to Congress
Mike DeBonis and Amy Gardner, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The turbulent debate over the nation s elections reached Congress s doorstep this week, with House Democrats poised to pass sweeping nationwide standards for voter access Wednesday just as Republican lawmakers in dozens of states move to restrict polling access after Donald Trump s November loss.
Both parties have mobilized for the fight in unprecedented ways, reflecting the immense public attention on election issues - thanks to Trump s months-long campaign of falsehoods and the subsequent attack on the Capitol, as well as the stakes for the 2022 midterm elections.
Vernon Jordan, lawyer and D.C. political power broker, dies at 85
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Vernon Jordan, left, a confidant of President Bill Clinton s, exits a courthouse in Washington, D.C., after testifying before a grand jury in 1998.Washington Post photo by Robert A. Reeder
Vernon Jordan never held elective office, was never a member of the Cabinet and never even worked for the federal government. He was a lawyer who rarely appeared in court, a corporate kingmaker who was not a registered lobbyist, a political strategist who did not direct a campaign.
Yet Jordan was, for years, one of the most influential figures in Washington. With a commanding presence, personal charm and an inviolable sense of discretion, Jordan had a rare combination of talents that made him the confidant of presidents, congressional leaders, business executives and civil rights figures.