Month: October 2019

WASHINGTON – Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she is considering boycotting next week’s Democratic primary debate, claiming without proof that the Democratic National Committee and the press are trying to rig the election. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey “The DNC and the corporate media are trying to hijack the entire election process, so in order…

India lifted on Thursday restrictions on tourists visiting Kashmir, but for hotels around the picturesque lake in Srinagar two months into a lockdown it was still far from business as usual. Authorities in early August had told holidaymakers to leave “immediately” over “terror threats” to a major Hindu pilgrimage, sending thousands scrambling for places on…

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two-thirds of bird species in North America, already disappearing at an alarming rate, face extinction unless immediate action is taken to slow the rate of climate change, the National Audubon Society said on Thursday. “We are in the midst of a bird emergency,” Audubon’s Chief Executive David Yarnold…

About two-thirds of America’s birds will be threatened with extinction if global warming rises by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, according to a report released Thursday from the National Audubon Society, a bird-focused conservation group. “A lot of people paid attention to last month’s report that North America has lost nearly a third of its birds,” said David…

Sanderlings, red-headed woodpeckers and great gray owls are just a few of the North American bird species projected to be threatened by climate change in the coming decades, according to the latest assessment depicting an increasingly dire situation for the continent’s avian wildlife. “Two thirds of birds in North America are at risk from climate…

Key point: Iran’s best would still put up a fight. On July 21, 1987, a gigantic 414,000-ton supertanker entered the Persian Gulf with an unusually prominent escort—a U.S. Navy missile cruiser and three frigates. The narrow straits of the Persian Gulf had become a shooting gallery due to the Iran-Iraq War, still raging seven years…

U.S. health officials again warned doctors Thursday against abandoning chronic pain patients by abruptly stopping their opioid prescriptions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services instead urged doctors to share such decisions with patients. The agency published steps for doctors in a six-page guide and an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical…

WASHINGTON – Negative poll numbers have deepened President Donald Trump’s resentments toward Fox News. “From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Whoever their Pollster is, they suck.” Click Here: habitat tord boontje The president did not specify which poll numbers bothered him so much, but…

President Trump bashed his erstwhile favorite news channel, Fox News, in a pair of tweets Thursday touched off by a new Fox News poll that found a majority of Americans want to see him impeached and removed from office. “From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll,” Trump tweeted. “Whoever…

* Tanker owners says vessel leaking crude * Incident follows attacks on ships in Gulf * Tensions already high after strikes on Saudi sites (Adds details) By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck by two missiles off the Saudi port of Jeddah on Friday, Iranian state television reported,…