TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has vowed to retaliate against to widened U.S. sanctions, saying Washington should “expect an attack” in response to the measures. “We know how to play the game too,” Iran’s Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh said in an interview televised by state media late Monday as he condemned the U.S. measures an “economic terrorist attack.” The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Iran since 1979 after Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Tehran, taking U.S. diplomats hostage. Madan
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Monday announcement that America will impose the economic equivalent of the military campaign that defeated Nazi Germany on the Islamic Republic of Iran could set off a series of events leading to the dissolution of the nearly 47-year-old dictatorship in Tehran, according to Iran experts. Bessent’s declaration of economic warfare follows President Donald Trump’s commitment last week to launch an "economic D-Day" against the Tehran regime. The comprehensive
'Bully': Feud erupts between Trump and Ontario's Doug Ford over US-Canada trade war Ford said Canada needed to "throw everything and the kitchen sink" at Trump. A war of words between the U.S. and Canada is heating up -- as is the trade war between the longtime allies -- with Ontario's outspoken premier Doug Ford telling President Donald Trump twice he can "kiss my a--." On Monday, Trump pledged to raise the tariff on cars, steel and other goods to 50% in January. That followed tariffs of 50% on
The criminal trial of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was postponed by a federal judge Monday after defense attorneys said they received new evidence over the weekend from prosecutors. Jury selection was set to begin Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi. It would have been the first U.S. trial stemming from the bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans. U.S. District Judge Dabn
Alex Pretti, an American citizen and ICU nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.
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Local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants, analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows Congressional lobbyists working for fossil fuel firms that are exacerbating the climate crisis are simultaneously representing more than 300 local governments raising funding to recover from climate damage, according to a new analysis. The research by F Minus and Make Polluters Pay reviewed congressional lobbying disclosures for the first quarter of 2026, finding that another 56
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Archaeologists in Central Europe recently came across an unusual hoard of Bronze Age tools — including a sword that had been deliberately smashed with a powerful blow. The discovery was announced by Archaeological Center Olomouc (ACO), a research institution in the Czech Republic , on August 12. The hoard was found in a heavily flooded area at the end of May. The cache, discovered near Kojetín in central Moravia during archaeological work connected to a railway project, contained an assortment o
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A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher.
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The trial of a Libyan man is delayed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.
