Новости за 07.01.2020

A stampede broke out Tuesday at the funeral of a top Iranian general killed in a US drone strike, leaving more than 30 people dead as huge crowds of mourners packed his hometown. The crush in the southeastern city of Kerman came as Iran prepared to bury Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, a hugely popular […]

A Cypriot court on Tuesday handed a British teenager a four-month suspended prison sentence after convicting her of falsely accusing a dozen Israeli tourists of gang rape. The 19-year-old, who could have faced up to a year in jail, smiled and hugged family at the end of a trial that sparked protests in Britain and […]

“You can speak with American people from Tehran too and we will do that,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Tuesday confirmed reports that the Trump administration has denied him a visa to enter the U.S. for a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York this week, a […]

Be careful of the company you keep. In a threat delivered over Twitter on Jan. 4, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he is prepared to “HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD” culturally important targets in Iran should the country retaliate for the American killing of its top general. As a historian who has written […]

A few months ago a group of NASA exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest. Because my expertise lies in modeling the climate of exoplanets, they asked me to figure out whether […]

Highlighting the “strong scientific consensus that the decline of insects, other arthropods, and biodiversity as a whole, is a very real and serious threat that society must urgently address,” 73 international scientists on Monday published a roadmap to battle the world’s “bugpocalypse.” “Most importantly, we hope that end-users and land managers now can use this […]

Editor’s note: We pulled four before-and-after-images from NASA’s Worldview application, and asked bushfire researcher Grant Williamson to reflect on the story they tell. Here’s what he told us: I’ve been studying fires for more than a decade. I use satellite data to try to understand the global and regional patterns in fire – what drives […]

Don’t let your vote get stolen – 5 essential reads about disinformation in 2020 As the 2020 election season heats up, there will be a massive number of people competing for your vote. Only some of them will be legitimate candidates. The vast majority will be information warriors, people who seek to confuse you about […]

Julián Castro is out of the race for president, but that effort left him well-positioned for future runs, including the one for the second spot on a national ticket later this year. If that doesn’t work out, there’s a fresh round of statewide races — from governor on down — on the ballot two years […]

Normal people, as I prefer to call them, did not grow up in a twice-born Christian environment in which obedience to patriarchal authority is the supreme moral commandment. For this reason, normal people are overestimating the value of Christianity Today’s editorial in which Editor in Chief Mark Galli called for President Donald Trump’s removal. In […]

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida indicated just how desperate his party is to avoid the truth about President Donald Trump’s conduct on Monday, telling CNN reporter Manu Raju that he doesn’t think the Senate impeachment trial should introduce any new facts. Raju asked whether the Senate should subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton […]

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday completely undercut President Donald Trump’s advocacy of war crimes, telling CNN that the administration “will follow the laws of armed conflict.” Trump had raised the prospect of violating these laws over the weekend, saying on Twitter: ‘Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or […]

Over the weekend, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent one of the most humiliating tweets I’ve seen from a public official — which is saying something in the age of President Donald Trump. Amazingly, the offending tweet is still up: Eric Trump's birthday is coming up. We're putting together a birthday card for him — will […]

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley received harsh criticism along for an attack against Democrats running for president in 2020 during a Monday appearance on Fox News. Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina, was interviewed by Sean Hannity. “The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership and […]

Fox News personality Laura Ingraham counseled President Donald Trump on Monday to ignore advice from those who advocated for the Iraq War. “It’s important for the president to listen to his gut here, that he doesn’t listen to the same people who got us sucked into Iraq in the first place,” Ingraham said. “The ‘Bush […]

The host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC focused on one key development in Washington, DC that could have key impacts in President Donald Trump’s “impeachment trial” — that also could have key ramifications for America’s foreign policy in both Iran and Iraq. The host noted that one of the key facts in the […]

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” former Nixon White House counsel John Dean explained that if the Senate subpoenas former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump cannot use executive privilege to block the testimony — and drew on his own experience in Watergate. “In fact, it occurred to me it might […]

On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s “All In,” former Judge Nancy Gertner blaster Republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for their anti-constitutional hypocrisy in opposing any effort to subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton in the Senate impeachment trial. “There is now a sort of question about timing more broadly, Nancy, and this impasse between […]

The fragile psychological state of President Donald Trump and his supporters was explained by a prominent forensic psychiatrist at the Yale University School of Medicine on Monday. Dr. Bandy Lee was interviewed on “The Ralph Nader Hour” radio show. Lee was the editor of the 2017 book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, in which […]

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele warned his own party that they should be careful about their blind allegiance to President Donald Trump when it comes to military actions against Iran. In a Washington Post interview, Steele cautioned the GOP to think twice before they willingly volunteer to carry another albatross of war. “The Republican […]

On Monday, CNN’s Zachary Cohen reported that President Donald Trump was “concerned” about the accidental letter on U.S. troops in Iraq, and demanded that White House aides see that it was “cleaned up”: A White House official told CNN's @Acosta Trump was "concerned" about the mistake. The President asked aides about the letter & "wanted […]

On Monday, ABC News 40/29 reported that Brandon Bullard, the chief operating officer of Baptist Health in Fort Smith, Oklahoma, has been arrested on charges of domestic assault and battery. According to the report, Bullard’s wife summoned Pocola police at 2:30 am on Saturday, reporting that “her husband was intoxicated and was shoving her.” Bullard reportedly […]

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield did an interview with host of the “Spirited” podcast Simran Jeet Singh to explain the frightening ways in which fanaticism can allure those with strong-held beliefs. The President of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) explained that he spent many years as a “hardcore fundamentalist” in his Judaism. “Though, […]

On Monday, Rolling Stone published a profile of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), detailing how he went from a close friend of the legendary Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a strong conservative voice who did his own thing, to an across-the-board pro-Trump sycophant. Speaking to writer Mark Binelli, former McCain strategist and Never Trump conservative Steve […]

President Donald Trump’s assassination of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani was driven by his personal political motives as he seeks re-election after being impeached by the House of Representatives, a long-time Republican strategist charged on Monday. Steve Schmidt was interviewed about the precarious situation in the Middle East by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. The two were featured […]