Elizabeth Warren’s Son-in-Law Produced Film Funded by Iranian Government…
January 21, 2020
Since his marriage into the Warren family, Tyagi “has been involved in a series of curious—even troubling—business ventures around the world”... Tyagi runs Tricolor Films, and in 2008, produced a film called The Song of Sparrows, directed by Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi...Tyagi was listed as the film’s sole producer on a New York Times page, in credits which have now been deleted. A look back at the page’s archive revealed that the film was funded by the Iranian government agency that is overseen by Iranian propagandists.
Project Veritas Part 3: 2nd Bernie Staffer “I’ll straight up get armed” “Guillotine the rich”
January 21, 2020
Supreme Court religious rights case has big implications for U.S. schools…
January 21, 2020
Mothers of students at Stillwater Christian School are appealing a lower court ruling that struck down a Montana state tax credit that could help students pay to attend private schools including religious ones. A 2015 Montana law provided people a tax credit of up to $150 for donations to groups that fund scholarships for private school tuition. State tax officials limited the program to non-religious schools in order to comport with the state constitution, which forbids public aid to any “church, sect or denomination.”
Senate to debate impeachment trial rules: What to expect…
Democrats accuse McConnell of rigging Trump's impeachment trial...
January 21, 2020
By rule, the trial will begin at 1 p.m. EST. Tuesday will be the first day House managers and the president's defense are physically in the Senate chamber... Once the Senate gets through the basics, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will take the floor and formally offer his organizing resolution, which will lay out the wireframe and terms for the trial. Once McConnell introduces his proposal, the House managers and the president’s legal defense will debate the plan. Under McConnell's proposal, the prosecution will have 12 hours and the defense will have 12 hours... It will be up to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to offer a counterproposal...
9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appears in Guantanamo courtroom as trial approaches…
Psychologist Who Waterboarded for C.I.A. to Testify...
January 21, 2020
In the nearly two decades since 19 al Qaeda terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center buildings, the side of the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people, the five men believed to be responsible have yet to face a trial... Mohammed, dubbed “KSM" and described as “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks” in the 9/11 Commission Report, was a close ally of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and will be on trial alongside Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al Shibh, Ammar al Baluchi, and Mustafa al Hawsawi.
Michael Avenatti being held in El Chapo’s former cell in Manhattan…
January 21, 2020
Avenatti’s attorney claimed in court papers filed Monday that he’s being held in solitary confinement in the “Special Housing Unit on the notorious 10-South of the MCC-New York.” His lawyers pleaded with a judge to release him to general population in the prison, arguing he could not prepare for his trial in those conditions.
Giuliani breaks his silence: Responds to accusations from Lev Parnas…
January 21, 2020
Lev Parnas accuses AG William Barr of conflict of interest, seeks special prosecutor…
January 21, 2020
In a court-filed letter on the eve of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate, a lawyer for the indicted Soviet-born defendant cited Trump's "multiple references" to Barr in the matter at the heart of that case — the July phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the family of former vice president Joe Biden, a rival for this year's presidential election.
Astronomers just got a deep peek at a black hole…
January 21, 2020
Using a technique akin to echolocation, scientists were able to map the region around a distant black hole’s event horizon in unprecedented detail... The black hole coming into focus is parked in the middle of a galaxy called IRAS 13224-3809, which sits about a billion light-years away. The supermassive object is surrounded by a swirling disk of million-degree matter and is sheathed by an x-ray corona with a temperature exceeding a billion degrees.
China’s Coronavirus Scare: More Deaths, Airport Passenger Screenings, Human-To-Human Transmission….
UPDATE: CDC confirms first US case of coronavirus that has killed 6 in China...
January 21, 2020
The mysterious coronavirus that has killed at least four people and sickened more than 200 in China is capable of spreading from person to person, a prominent Chinese scientist said on Monday, adding to fears of a broader epidemic... Fifteen medical professionals have been affected, with one critically ill, according to a report from China’s state news agency Xinhua... Health authorities around the world have begun to step up screening of travellers arriving from China. Two cases have already been identified in Thailand, one in Japan and one in South Korea, while the Philippines reported on Tuesday its first suspected case.
President Trump Delivers Opening Remarks at the World Economic Forum…
January 21, 2020
Bloomberg is willing to spend $2B on himself — or another Dem — to unseat Trump…
January 21, 2020
The $2 billion spending number — which hasn’t been reported – comes amid various press accounts that have focused on just how much Bloomberg is spending and will spend to either snare the nomination and become president or help a fellow Democrat win in November. Last week, The New York Times reported that Bloomberg has said he could spend $1 billion, though the piece suggested that Bloomberg hasn’t ruled out spending even more.
Study says Sperm donations from dead men should be allowed…
January 21, 2020
The analysis, which is published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, claims that opt-in post-death donations could be a "morally permissible" way of increasing the stocks available... Sperm can be collected after death either through electrical stimulation of the prostate gland or surgery, and can then be frozen. Evidence suggests that sperm harvested from men who have died can still result in viable pregnancies and healthy children, even when retrieved up to 48 hours after death has occurred.