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Salvador Rizzo, The Washington Post Published 3:27 am PDT, Thursday, April 4, 2019 "Mexico, as you know, as of yesterday, has been starting to apprehend a lot of people at their southern border coming in from Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. And they've - they're really apprehending thousands of people. And it's the first time, really, in decades that this has taken place. And it should have taken place a long time ago. You know, Mexico has the strongest immigration laws in the world. There's nobody who has stronger. I guess some have the same, but you can't get any stronger than what Mexico has." - President Donald Trump, in remarks at the Oval Office , April 2, 2019 "After many years (decades), Mexico is apprehending large numbers of people at their Southern Border, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador." - Trump, in a tweet , April 2, 2019 - - - President Donald Trump says Mexico began to detain thousands of Central American migrants at its southern … [Read more...] about Trump’s false claims about Mexico’s immigration system

Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post Published 5:25 pm PDT, Monday, March 25, 2019 Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit alleging a research technician falsified data for several years to obtain federal grants, university officials announced Monday. Attorneys for the whistleblower in the case called it the largest-ever recovery for research grant fraud challenged under the federal False Claims Act. A former employee of Duke raised concerns that led to the case in 2014 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The lawsuit came after the university found a research technician had embezzled federal grant funds - but before university officials realized that data had been fabricated. The technician pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and paid restitution to Duke, according to university officials. The research technician in Duke's Airway Physiology Laboratory submitted falsified data with … [Read more...] about Duke settles research misconduct case, agrees to pay U.S. government $112.5 million

Huawei asked a federal court to reject as unconstitutional a U.S. ban on using its equipmentThat ban would block Huawei's access to major markets as the push to 5G technology picks upThe lawsuit calls the U.S. ban a corporate "death penalty"The U.S. says the company facilitates spying by the Chinese, which Huawei deniesShenzhen, China - Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a U.S. law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment. Huawei Technologies' lawsuit, announced Thursday, asks a federal court to reject as unconstitutional a portion of this year's U.S. military appropriations act that bars the government and its contractors from using Huawei equipment.It comes as the biggest global maker of network gear fights a U.S. campaign to persuade allies to shun Huawei. That effort threatens to block access to major markets as phone carriers prepare to invest billions of dollars in next-generation, 5G networks.The … [Read more...] about Huawei sues U.S., claiming security law is unconstitutional

Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post Published 2:47 am PST, Friday, February 15, 2019 "Through the combined effort of everyone here today, violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while." - President Donald Trump, remarks to Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association joint conference, Feb. 13, 2019 - - - President Trump ran for president warning that U.S. crime and murder rates were through the roof - repeatedly claiming, "We have the highest murder rate in this country in 45 years." Or, as he put it in 2018: "Before I took office less than two years ago, our nation was experiencing a historic surge in violent crime." Now that he's been president for two years, Trump says violent crime is finally going down - for the "first time in a long while." Well, it's easy to solve a problem when you completely misstate the facts. His campaign statements were false, just like his more recent claim about violent crime. Instead, there's been barely a … [Read more...] about Trump’s false claim that violent crime hasn’t gone down ‘in a long while’