Month: January 2020

Kentucky’s attorney general has asked the FBI to formally investigate former Governor Matt Bevin’s controversial pardons, two state legislators said Thursday. Bevin issued hundreds of pardons between losing his re-election bid and leaving office. Lawmakers are concerned that some of the pardons were favors to supporters. Last month, federal law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS…

A US airstrike is said to have struck a convoy of Iran-backed militia in Iraq – just hours after the targetted killing of Qassem Soleimani. Just hours after Donald Trump appeared in Florida to make his first public comments about the killing of the veteran Iranian military leader, reports said a US airstrike hit two…

WASHINGTON — Many top Democratic presidential candidates cautioned against potential military escalation in the Middle East after a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed a top Iranian official, Gen. Qassem Soleimani.  “Trump’s dangerous escalation brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders,…

Key point: Stealth is one of the most important elements of combat. Back in 2013, Pentagon press secretary George Little said that an Iranian air force F-4 Phantom combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 Predator drone flying through international airspace near Iran. As we reported back then, one of the two F-4 Phantom jets…

Idaho police and FBI agents investigating two missing children swarmed a home owned by their stepfather and his mysteriously deceased first wife. Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries told East Idaho News that investigators developed probable cause for a search warrant of the Salem house. Officers with rakes and metal detectors could be seen scouring the…

The Pentagon launched an airstrike Thursday night that killed a powerful Iranian military leader, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, at Baghdad’s international airport. The Defense Department said it conducted the attack at President Donald Trump’s direction as a “defensive action” against Soleimani, who it said was planning further attacks on American diplomats and service members.  Soleimani is an extremely…

AP Photo/Nasser Nasser Thousands of violent protesters believed to be Iran-backed Iraqi militia members and their supporters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday. By Wednesday, the situation had improved, with most of the protesters retreating from the immediate area, but significant damage had already been done. These photos from the day after the…

TF1 A photo obtained by a French news channel appears to show former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn celebrating New Year’s Eve in Beirut with his wife and others. On Monday, Ghosn surfaced in Lebanon after skipping bail and escaping from Japan, where he was facing charges of financial wrongdoing. It’s not clear how the 65-year-old…

There’s a global investigation underway into how Carlos Ghosn, a prominent businessman, escaped from house arrest in Tokyo. The former Nissan chairman was being held on financial misconduct charges when he fled Japan and ended up in his native Lebanon.  Ghosn flew from Japan through Istanbul on a private jet and then on to Lebanon…

La MGM a confié à Scott Derrickson et Robert Cargill la difficile tâche d’adapter pour le grand écran la série “The Outer Limits”. La MGM a confié au duo Robert Cargill / Scott Derrickson la difficile tâche d’adapter la série anthologique de SF Au-delà du réel. Et les deux scénaristes ont porté leur choix sur un épisode…