US agreed to give Iran 5 prisoners and unfreeze $6 billion in assets Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the Iranian government will spend the $6 billion it gained in a prisoner exchange with the U.S., “wherever we need it.” Raisi made the comments in an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt on Tuesday after coming…
Rescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in raging flood waters. At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city. Two dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city when Storm…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued a “public health emergency order” that purportedly suspends the right to bear arms in Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County. The order, which lasts for 30 days but can be renewed, applies to concealed or open carry of firearms on public property, with exceptions for police officers…
Decades after IBM and Microsoft, Google becomes the rare tech giant to be prosecuted in wide and sweeping antitrust action Starting tomorrow (Sep. 12), Google, the world’s most-used search engine, has to prove that it is not using its pole position in the sector to cannibalize its competition. In October 2020, the US Department of…
NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The Group of 20 major economies reached a hard-fought compromise over the war in Ukraine and papered over other key differences in a summit declaration at the weekend, presenting few concrete achievements in its core remit of responses to global financial issues. Diplomats and analysts said the surprise consensus…
Morocco was struck by the strongest quake in more than a century on Friday. A devastating earthquake in Morocco is known to have killed more than 2,500 people, but that number is expected to rise. European countries have sent aid following Friday’s catastrophic quake that destroyed homes, blocked roads and wiped entire villages of the…
Greetings from Tyler, It looks as though the war in Ukraine is going to go on and on. U. S. tanks and munitions are being expended at an alarming rate. It is said that the Ukrainian forces are short on munitions. Is there no limit? Are we replacing everything sent to Ukraine? We’re not sure…
Alaska state agency to challenge federal action in court, conduct discovery of top Biden admin officials The Biden administration canceled several oil and gas leases issued in early 2021 to an Alaskan state economic development agency, it announced Wednesday. The Department of the Interior (DOI) rescinded the seven 10-year leases — spanning 365,775 acres in…
Tiny structures are not identical to human embryos, but could have various uses in medical research Researchers have created “complete” models of human embryos from stem cells in the lab and grown them outside the womb, in work that paves the way for advances in fertility, pharmaceutical testing and transplants. The tiny balls of tissue…
North Korea launched its first “tactical nuclear attack submarine” in a ceremony attended by Kim Jong Un. The launching of the submarine was announced in North Korean state media. The Korean Central News Agency boasted that the launching of the submarine ushered in a “new era of Juche-oriented naval force,” referring to the state ideology….