Month: January 2020

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that climate change is something only hippies should care about. By this view, commonly expressed by conservative politicians, fixing climate change is only for bleeding-hearts who care more about hugging trees than making money. But this is completely wrong. Climate change will wreck the…

An apparent kidnapping in Las Vegas just after midnight on Jan. 1 was captured on a Nest home surveillance camera showing a distressed woman unsuccessfully trying to escape a man who was chasing her, according to video released by police. The footage above is distressing. The video, filmed at 12:48 a.m. on Jan. 1 at…

A man was captured on home security camera footage confessing to the murder of his sister Friday, shortly after she was stabbed to death in a Texas home, authorities said. The woman, Jennifer Chioma Ebichi, 32, had been stabbed at least a dozen times when authorities found her on the kitchen floor at the home…

The mayor of Philadelphia sharply criticized two men who wore blackface while marching in the city’s annual — and often racially troubling — New Year’s Day Mummers Parade, calling their actions “abhorrent and unacceptable.” The group the men apparently were affiliated with, the Froggy Carr Wench Brigade, was also disqualified from Wednesday’s parade and may…

NEW YORK (AP) — After Friday’s targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, newsrooms struggled with the question: Had the United States just carried out an assassination? And should news stories about the killing use that term? The AP Stylebook, considered a news industry bible, defines assassination as “the murder of a politically important or…

Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump ordered the US military to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, a stunning move that has ignited a debate about whether or not the strike was legal and, if it was legal, on what legal-basis it is justified. The Defense and State Departments’ comments on the strike appear to…

Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) on Friday joined skeptics of President Trump’s decision to authorize an airstrike on Iranian military commander Qassim Soleimani, suggesting in a series of tweets that the move may further destabilize the region and cautioning the administration against further provoking Iran without congressional approval. “The question remains whether the assassination of…

Key point: Perhaps, given time for more liberalizing reforms, Iran would have transitioned to a different form of government than the Islamic revolutionary state which currently hold power. At 9 PM on August 19, 1978, four men entered the lobby of the Rex Cinema in Abadan after having been disappointed to find the nearby Soheila…

(Warning: many readers may find the below image to be disturbing.) The family of an Orthodox Jewish man who was severely injured during a machete attack in Monsey, N.Y., on Saturday says that doctors fear he may never wake up. Josef Neumann, 72, was among five people injured when a man brandishing a machete broke…

MONSEY, N.Y. — A Rockland grand jury Friday indicted Grafton Thomas on multiple charges of attempted murder in the machete slashing of five Hasidic Jewish men celebrating Hanukkah during a party at their rabbi’s house. Thomas, 37, pleaded not guilty to the charges during a Ramapo Justice Court appearance on Dec. 22 prior to the grand jury presentation.…