Month: January 2020

Donald Trump has warned he may retaliate with “disproportionate” force if Iran hits any US targets, using a Twitter post to “notify” Congress of his intentions while more bombs fell near the American embassy in Baghdad. Hinting at sanctions against Iraq if the country moves to enforce Sunday’s vote to expel foreign troops, he also…

Since Friday, when the U.S. killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani near Iraq’s only international airport, Baghdad and Washington have, on the outside, remained locked in a bitter diplomatic feud. Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday that U.S. troops should end their ISIS-fighting mission in the country. Since then, President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose…

These days, wages in the United States are doing something extraordinary: They’re growing faster at the bottom than at the top. In fact, recent growth for workers with low wages has outpaced that for high-wage workers by the widest margin in at least 20 years. The main story here is the long economic recovery, now…

A debate over how to describe the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani reached the 2020 Democratic primary over the weekend as candidates argued whether or not the drone strike that killed him constituted an “assassination.” Soleimani, the charismatic face of Iran’s expansionist Middle East policy and head of the Quds Force — the special…

A Republican congressman who tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday defended it as making a valid point after commenters pointed out that the two had never met in person. In his original post, Paul Gosar proclaimed, “The world is a better place without these guys…

Puerto Rico earthquake: Magnitude 6.4 knocks out power, kills at least 1 originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Puerto Rico in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake hit close to the town of Tallaboa on the island’s south coast, at 4:24 a.m. local time (03:24a.m…

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress are moving to swiftly invoke the War Powers Resolution in an attempt to block President Donald Trump from taking the United States into a war with Iran, even as Iran vows revenge for his killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Trump is threatening disproportionate strikes inside Iran if it…

Iranian foreign minister says US ‘will pay’ for its ‘act of war’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States “will pay” for its actions and must “be prepared for the consequences” in the wake of the death of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds…

Laëtitia Milot était l’invitée de l’émission C à Vous, sur France 5 ce vendredi 31 mars, la comédienne a eu la surprise d’écouter un touchant message de son mari Badri. Etonnée, et émue, elle n’a pu contenir ses larmes. Elle pensait sans doute que l’émission C à vous, sur France 5, à laquelle elle participait…

Figure du Nouvel Hollywood, scénariste mythique de Martin Scorsese, réalisateur d’”American Gigolo” ou le méconnu “Blue Collar”, Paul Schrader revient derrière la caméra pour le sulfureux “The Canyons”. © Recidive Films   Paul Schrader est une figure du Nouvel Hollywood, un scénariste mythique notamment du fait de sa collaboration avec Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging…