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Washington Post
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Senate confirms Trump's pick for counterterrorism agency, a former Green Beret with extremist ties
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent , on Wednesday evening as Republicans looked past his connections to right-wing extremists and support for conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Kent won confirmation on a 52-44 vote tally with Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina the only Republican nay vote. Kent had already been working for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard . As the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, he will oversee an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Requiem A review — guilt and grief in Vienna on VE Day
Not surprisingly, VE Day has more conflicted connotations in Vienna than it does in London. In 2013 the Mauthausen Committee Austria — established to preserve the memory of that horrific Nazi concentration camp near Linz — started a 'Fest der Freude', an open-air festival of joy, on May 8 each year in the vast Heldenplatz in central Vienna. The committee's reason was chilling: it feared that the Heldenplatz (notorious as the square where Hitler publicly announced the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in March 1938) was being taken over by what it called 'right-wing extremists' intent on turning May 8 into a day 'when the Nazi defeat is mourned'. Instead, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra was invited to give a free annual concert, always ending with
