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Iranian activists abroad say loved ones are being detained back home
CAIRO — Iran’s government is detaining family members and threatening to seize property of Iranian opposition figures in exile, some told the Associated Press, in the latest crackdown on dissenting voices as the war rages on. Activists overseas play a key role in tracking the crackdown, which is complicated by the ongoing internet shutdown imposed early this
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The Star Trek Episodes That Changed the Franchise—And TV—Forever
Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, and Brent Spiner —Courtesy of Paramount On the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Commander William Riker stares into the face of his captain and sees a future worse than death. Jean-Luc Picard—principled diplomat, conscience of the Federation—stands on the viewscreen, stripped of everything that made him human. His ashen
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Microplastics are everywhere — even in the labs studying them. That’s a problem for research
As the science of detecting microplastics matures, so too does consensus about their ubiquity. Everywhere researchers have looked to find them, there they’ve been: In human brains and lungs; in breast milk and semen; in alpine snow and deep-sea sediment; in corn plants and beer. And that, say researchers, is the rub: Scientists are not
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‘Whiff of 2008’: Nobel laureate pinpoints overlooked economic problem brewing
An economic issue which has so far gone unnoticed could be the makings of a 2008-level crisis, a Nobel Prize winner has warned. Paul Krugman believes that, while there is no immediate danger of an economic collapse, there is an issue present that has not yet been addressed by Donald Trump’s administration. In his latest
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Bondi and Noem were incompetent. But that’s not the only reason they’re gone
Remember when our president attacked a female journalist for asking uncomfortable questions with a casual, sincere, “Quiet, piggy”? That was five months ago, a lifetime in the chaos of the Trump administration, but it was a telling moment about how not just our president but those crafting his policy view women and their place in
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Heroic Maine father dies saving his children from rip current during Florida family vacation
A heroic father from Maine was killed while he rescued two of his children who were caught in a strong rip current during a family trip to Florida. Ryan Jennings, 46, from Cumberland County, was visiting his parents in South Florida with his wife and their three children when the tragedy occurred. The family had
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For more than 30 years — day in, day out — he’s chronicled California. One paragraph at a time
SACRAMENTO — Every morning, Jack Kavanagh brews himself a cup of coffee or tea, pads down a short hallway, past the dining room, and turns left into his small home office, where he brings California to the world. It’s been his routine for decades, through all manner of upheaval and events — social, political, natural and man-made.
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‘We got him!’ Trump reveals missing US pilots rescued in ‘daring’ rescue operation
Two American pilots who were stranded in Iran after their F-15 fighter jet was shot down Friday were recovered in a search and rescue operation, President Donald Trump revealed late Saturday night. “WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search
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Trump loses across courts in bruising week of immigration and legal setbacks
WASHINGTON — President Trump spent much of last week railing against the courts. The courts, in turn, spent it ruling against him. While Trump made history as the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court, where he stared down justices as they questioned his bid to end birthright citizenship, quieter courtrooms across the
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The War in Iran Is a Failure of Intelligence
In 2005, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers and security experts concluded that “the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” America’s spies had told President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear-weapons program and that Iraq possessed biological weapons and mobile