Month: June 2022
Iran convicts facing ‘abhorrent’ finger amputation, activists say
Eight men face disfigurement for robbery; rights group blasts ‘cruel and inhuman punishment’
Read MoreJudge blocks Texas from investigating families of trans youth
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.
Read MoreStock Markets Recoil as Investors React to Inflation Increase
The data suggested that policymakers would need to take aggressive steps to cool the economy, spooking investors.
Read MoreAmerica’s Best Astrophysicists Are Taking UFOs Seriously. Maybe You Should Too
NASA has spent more than 60 years flying UFOs. Every spacecraft that ever visited the moon, landed on Mars, buzzed by Jupiter, orbited Saturn, or reconnoitered Pluto would be a decidedly unidentified flying object to any alien intelligence that might
Read MoreProsecutors request life sentence for main suspect in 2015 Paris terror attack
Demand that Salah Abdeslam, 32, not have possibility of parole is extremely rare in France; verdict due on June 29; 19 others also on trial, accused of assisting killers
Read More‘Trump Was at the Center’: Jan. 6 Hearing Lays Out Case in Vivid Detail
The House panel investigating the attack led its public sessions with video testimony from people close to the former president about his actions before and during the riot.
Read MoreIran’s nuclear tactics push Biden further from elusive JCPOA revival
IAEA censure of Islamic Republic gives opponents of return to agreement even more ammunition, while angering Iran, which responds by shutting off 27 cameras at its nuclear sites
Read MoreMust-see art from Senegal’s Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards
Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year’s festival is “Ĩ Ndaffa” — meaning “out of the fire,” as artists forge bold visions of the world. (Image credit: Pierre Vanneste for NPR)
Read MoreStocks tumble after inflation worsens, raising rate fears
Stocks fell sharply on Friday following Wall Street’s cold realization that inflation got worse last month, not better, as investors had been hoping.
Read MoreLapid warns rebel MKs ‘will pay a price’ as polls show Netanyahu strength
Latest surveys have former PM’s current opposition bloc at 60 seats; Yamina’s Orbach said to give Bennett ultimatum to solve voting problems with Meretz, Ra’am within a week
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