Iran asked the United States to not interfere in its plans for retaliation against Israel, an Iranian official alleged Friday. Mohammad Jamshidi, Iran’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, claimed in a tweet that this exchange occurred. “In a written message, the Islamic Republic of Iran warned America not to fall into Netanyahu’s trap: […]
Category: Domestic
Economy, abortion no longer #1 issue for voters
The economy has always been the top issue at the ballot box for 65-year-old Garfield Cousins. But this year Cousins, an independent voter in an Atlanta suburb, said the sustained surge of migrants at the southern border will for the first time drive his decision in a presidential election. While illegal border crossings have repeatedly […]
Israel admits targeting World Kitchen aid convoy
Late on Thursday night, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) convened a meeting for a group of international journalists at the defence ministry building in Tel Aviv. The IDF then set out for us the results of their initial inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza. Retired Maj Gen Yoav Har-Even described how […]
Fani Willis told to recuse herself over wiretap
One of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his Georgia election interference case has threatened to launch legal action against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis if she “does not recuse herself from this case by noon on Monday.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Harrison Floyd wrote: “I don’t want to put a black woman […]
Can you get the bird flu from eating eggs?
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., the largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S., has temporarily halted production at one of its facilities in Texas after detecting bird flu there, the company announced Tuesday. The company says it “depopulated” about 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or about 3.6% of its flock, as a result of […]
Did Israel attack WCK aid workers on purpose?
The founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK) has accused Israel of targeting his aid workers “systematically, car by car” during the strikes that left seven dead on Monday, as mounting international fury over the attack further strains Western support for Israel’s war in Gaza. WCK challenged Israel’s response to the attacks in a fresh statement […]
Generals blame state dept for Afghan disaster
The two senior generals in charge of the US military during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 both blamed the State Department for not sooner ordering a “noncombatant evacuation operation” for remaining US citizens in Afghanistan in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “It is my assessment that that decision came too late,” retired Gen. Mark […]
This year’s Cicada invasion will be massive
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are […]
China’s ageing population is becoming a crisis
Ask 72-year-old farmer Huanchun Cao about his pension and he reacts with a throaty cackle. He sucks on his home-rolled cigarette, narrows his brow and tilts his head – as if the very question is absurd. “No, no, we don’t have a pension,” he says looking at his wife of more than 45 years. Mr […]
7.6 magnitude earthquake rocks Taiwan
Taiwan was shaken by a major earthquake registering magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale on Wednesday at 7:58 a.m. local time. Authorities said at least nine people were dead and 934 injured. It was the most powerful tectonic event on the island since the “921 quake” on September 21, 1999, when a 7.6-magnitude quake resulted […]
12 & 13 yr old truants beat man to death in D.C.
Three young girls have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a 64-year-old man in northwest Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue just before 1 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2023, for a report of a man down, according to a press release. Upon arrival, […]
World Kitchen Org suspends Gaza Op after attack
The World Central Kitchen, the international food charity founded by chef José Andrés, announced early on Tuesday that it was pausing aid operations after it said an Israeli airstrike killed seven of the organization’s workers in Gaza. The organization said its workers had been traveling in a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars carrying the […]