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BIDEN WANTS TRUMP AT THE INAUGURATION

Signaling that he’d like 74-year-old President Donald Trump to attend his inauguration Jan. 20, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden extended the president an olive branch, hoping that he’d honor an age-old U.S. tradition. Since President George Washington handed the baton...

EU HAGGLES WITH U.K. OVER CODFISH

Haggling over fishing rights, the European Union [EU] and the United Kingdom keep quibbling over how much cod fish the U.K. can pull out of the Bristish channel, something French fisherman control by 80%. EU’s 69-year-old chief Brexit negotiator Michael Barnier has...

STIMULUS BILL MISSING $1,200 PAYMENTS

Missing the $1,200 payments to individuals, $2,400 to couples or up to $3,,400 for families, the new “bipartisan” stimulus legislation is a classic half-measure, designed to do something for the millions of U.S. citizens and businesses struggling in the Covid-19 era....

CONGRESS REVIVES HOPE OF NEW STIMULUS

With a bitterly contested election all but over, 74-year-old President Donald looks for new digs as 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden and his 69-year-old wife Jill start measuring the drapes. Biden defeated Trump Nov. 3 in what Trump calls the biggest election...

IRAN ACCUSES SAUDI ARABIA IN SCIENTIST HIT

In a new twist on the Nov. 27 targeted remote-control killing of 62-year-old Iranian nuclear scientists Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s 60-year-old Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Saudi Arabia of conspiracy. Iran had fingered Israel’s Mossad Security Service...