On National Nuclear Technology Day, President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation while overseeing the launch of advanced centrifuges at the underground Natanz nuclear plant. In reaction to former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018, Iran has broken many of the limits put by the 2015 agreement on its
The House Ethics Committee reported on Friday that Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is the subject of an investigation. Federal authorities are looking into whether the congressman violated any sex trafficking laws. According to several sources, federal investigators are looking into a trip Gaetz reportedly took to the Bahamas in late 2018 or early 2019 as
Before even getting investigated, Congressman Matt Gaetz asked Trump for a pardon. The Representative from Florida was one of President Donald J. Trump’s most vocal allies during his term. Gaetz wanted a blanket pre-emptive pardons in the final weeks of Trump’s presidency. According to two people familiar with the report, he secretly pressed the White
On Thursday, the United States reported 187,000 new coronavirus infections, the largest one-day number in any country since the pandemic began. More than 2,000 people were killed in the United States on Thursday, the highest one-day death toll since May. Disease modelers at the University of Washington School of Medicine currently expect that over 470,000
Thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on Thursday to protest the death of an African American man by a white police officer for the third night in a row. Demonstrators set fire to the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct just hours after authorities said they were unsure whether to indict Derek Chauvin,
