LONDON – Analysts warn that Saturday’s drone attack on two Saudi oil facilities, which appear to have shattered the prospect of a rapprochement between Tehran and Washington, could push the price of a barrel of oil as high as $100. The drone strike came as it emerged that U.S. President Donald Trump had been thinking […]
WASHINGTON — The number of hate crime incidents reported in the United States jumped by 17 percent last year to more than 7,000 – the largest increase since 2001 when the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led to a surge in bias-motivated crimes. The increase, reported Tuesday by the FBI, marks the third annual jump […]
In her sworn statement, Swetnick says that she “fully understands the seriousness” of her accusations and charges that she was “gang raped” when she was a high school student at a party where Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were both in attendance. Represented by attorney Michael Avenatti, a third woman, Julie Swetnick, came forward […]
When the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 65 million years ago, the event drove an abrupt and long-lasting era of global warming, a new study reports. The results , published in the May 25 issue of Science, suggest that the asteroid impact caused a rapid temperature increase of 5 degrees Celsius (roughly 9 degrees Fahrenheit) that endured for […]