A key nuclear site in Iran’s Isfahan province has come under Israeli attack, with local officials saying there were no radiation leaks. Early on Saturday, smoke could be seen rising from an area near a mountain in the city of Isfahan after Israeli air strikes hit the nuclear site overnight, triggering the air defence system….
Trump has repeatedly said he averted a nuclear war, saved millions of lives – and grumbled that he got no credit for it. Pakistan says it would recommend United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, an accolade that he has said he craves. In May, a surprise announcement by Trump of a…
How did MAGA become Trump’s biggest opponent of a US strike on Iran? The Republican base is split over Trump’s rhetoric about getting involved in another foreign war. Conservative stalwarts like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are pushing back. Could a US strike on Iran be a blow against Trump at home? Source link
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos successfully flew to space in July 2021 alongside his half-sibling Mark Bezos, aviator Wally Funk and Olivier Daemen. “Best day ever,” he said after they returned to Earth. The company’s first human flight earned four Guinness World Records after the rocket crossed the Kármán line. The Bezos brothers became the…
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have settled on new minimum-wage rules for rideshare drivers, Bloomberg reports. Drivers will receive a five percent raise under the new proposal, a compromise to keep Uber and Lyft from locking drivers out of their apps. The proposal needs to be voted on by the TLC’s board…
Liverpool delivered a huge statement of intent after winning the Premier League title by signing Germany star Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. The transfer fee could climb to 116 million pounds ($156m), which would make the 22-year-old Wirtz the most expensive player in the history of British football. “I feel very happy and very proud,”…
United States President Donald Trump has said his director of national intelligence was “wrong” when she testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not re-authorised the country’s suspended nuclear weapons programme. The comments come after Trump earlier this week cast doubt on Tulsi Gabbard’s March…
When President Donald Trump announced widespread reciprocal tariffs in April, U.S. shrimpers rejoiced. “Our initial visceral response was that we finally felt seen,” said Bryan Jones, vice president of the South Carolina Shrimpers Association. Jones is the captain of a South Carolina shrimping boat. He remembers when hundreds of other shrimpers were out on the…
Florian Wirtz Photo: AFP Liverpool have smashed their club transfer record to sign Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. Leverkusen will receive a guaranteed amount of £100 million (NZ$225 million) and a further maximum of 16 million pounds in potential bonuses. That makes the 22-year-old Liverpool’s most-expensive signing ever, ahead of…
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter While many educators spent the past two years fretting that artificial intelligence is killing student writing, upending person-to-person tutoring and generally wreaking havoc on scholastic inquiry, the well-known thinker and ed tech expert Michael Feldstein has been quietly exploring something…