Month: January 2020

A series of devastating earthquakes struck off the coast of Puerto Rico on Monday and Tuesday, leaving homes damaged, without power and toppling Punta Ventana — the island’s beloved natural rock formation. The destruction started on Monday when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks hit, The Miami Herald reported, collapsing the well-known site that translates as…

Screenshot/YouTube; Getty Images One of Puerto Rico’s best-known tourist attractions collapsed, and one man was killed, amid a series of earthquakes that have hit the Caribbean island this week. Puerto Rico was hit by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday and a 6.4 magnitude quake on Tuesday. One man has been killed and a further…

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican authorities believe at least 40 people were involved in killing nine Mormon women and children in the north of the country in November, a lawyer for one of the families said Tuesday. The three women and six children from a breakaway Mormon community with dual US-Mexican nationality were on a…

A Republican congressman tweeted a faked picture of the former US president Barack Obama shaking hands with Iran president Hassan Rouhani – who he never met. Representative for Arizona Paul A Gosar posted the doctored image in an attempt to criticise Mr Obama’s time in office and his Iran policy. He posted the tweet on…

Arizona Republican congressman Paul Gosar, who championed immigration policies so repugnant his six siblings came out against him in a recent reelection bid, has been on an odd Twitter tear. Last November, the representative clandestinely wedged a Jeffrey Epstein meme into a tweet about the Trump impeachment proceedings, and then followed it up a month…

By Diptendu Lahiri (Reuters) – Gold surged past the $1,600 level for the first time in nearly seven years earlier on Wednesday after Iran carried out retaliatory attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq, but the metal pared gains as investors awaited reaction from the White House. Spot gold rose 0.4% to $1,579.33 per ounce at…

Oil prices briefly surged Tuesday night after Iran fired missiles at U.S. and coalition troops at two Iraqi bases, retaliating for the American killing of a top Iranian general. But don’t expect the attack to translate into a big spike in gas prices.  At least not yet. The price of oil, which is refined into gasoline, spiked…

WASHINGTON — Iran launched attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq on Tuesday evening in apparent retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which was ordered by President Trump. According to a statement from the Department of Defense, the attacks began at approximately 5:30 p.m. EST. “Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic…

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered another Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet orbiting around a star in the range of distances where conditions could allow for the presence of liquid water on the planet’s surface. Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists confirmed the find, called TOI 700 d, according to a statement from NASA’s  Jet Propulsion Laboratory…

WASHINGTON — U.S. military units stationed in Iraq and Syria are readying for attacks from either Iranian forces or their proxies after the drone strike that killed a senior Iranian general last week. It is unclear what an Iranian retaliatory attack would look like after the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian security and…