Humanitarian funding shortages hit Syria A lack of funds is compounding attacks on health care, for which no one has yet been held to account. By Sharmila Devi. 05/17/2024 - 11:44 am | View Link
Kenyans in flood-prone areas are ordered to evacuate or will be moved by force as death toll rises NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs” and people downstream should move away, the Cabinet said Tuesday, and ordered ... 04/29/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Turkish court convicts Syrian woman over Istanbul bombing A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, a copy of the verdict obtained ... 04/25/2024 - 11:39 pm | View Link
Death toll from Moscow concert hall attack rises to 133. The FSB confirmed 11 suspects have been arrested. The death toll from the attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall Friday night has risen to 133 as Russia's Federal Security Bureau confirmed eleven suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack. 03/23/2024 - 3:18 am | View Link
Death Toll in Attack at Russian Concert Hall Tops 130 as Suspects Detained Russian authorities said they had detained 11 people in connection with a terrorist attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb, as the death toll from Friday night’s violence rose to 133 ... 03/23/2024 - 3:10 am | View Link
History Channel reminds us of the devastation caused by this volcanic eruption.
At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.
After the city of Pompeii was buried under the might of Mt Vesuvius in 79 ce , an incredible city was discovered under the ash over a thousand years later.
For many centuries Pompeii slept beneath its pall of ash, which perfectly preserved the remains.
California banker and carpetbagger Eric "Pornstache" Hovde, who wants to be the US Senator from Wisconsin, has a knack for doublespeak. We first saw this when he was explaining why people in nursing homes shouldn't be allowed to vote, when he denied in believing The Big Lie and then repeating all the accusations anyway.
He then did an interview with Matt Smith of WISN-TV when this subject came up.
An animated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised his voice and refused to say he would accept the outcome of the 2024 election on Sunday.
During an interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked the senator if he would accept a loss by former President Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.
"Will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens, Senator?" Welker asked.
"No matter what happens?
He's already tried overthrow the results of an election once, and as many have warned, he'll try to do it again. Here's Trump saying the quiet part out loud again during his speech this weekend:
The highlight of the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting on Saturday was a speech by former president Donald Trump, which came late but was ripe with sound bites.
8212; Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.
Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight.