MAY FACES BREXIT SHOWDOWN

by | Mar 11, 2019

No longer worried about her own survival, 62-year-old British Prime Minister Theresa May faces another Parliament vote March 12 on whether to approve her best Brexit deal with the European Union. May has won precious little from Brussels trying but failing to win...

MADURO WON’T GO QUIETLY

by | Mar 10, 2019

Venezuelan President 56-year-old Nicolas Maduro rejected U.S. attempts to get him to resign, after 35-year-old National Council President Juan Guaido declared himself interim president Jan. 23. While the U.S. and European Union jumped on the bandwagon, Maduro dug in,...

SPACE-X READY FOR MANNED SPACE OPERATIONS

by | Mar 9, 2019

Lifting off from Cape Canaveral March 4 on a Falcon 9 rocket and docking with the International Space Station [ISS] March 5, SpaceX’s Dragon-3 Crew spacecraft splashed down safely in the South Atlantic, off the Florida Coast. When Dragon-2 re-entered the earth’s...

MANAFORT SENTENCED TO 47 MONTHS

by | Mar 8, 2019

Sentenced to 47 months in federal prison, 69-year-old former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III thumbed his nose at Special Counsel Robert Muller, urging the independently-minded federal judge to give him 19-24 years in...

IRAN REJECTS TALKING TO U.S.

by | Mar 7, 2019

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States under 72-year-old President Donald Trump of trying to overthrow the Mullah government, in power since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei ousted U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979. Official State...