by drjmcurtis | 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,...
by drjmcurtis | 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...
by drjmcurtis | 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...
by drjmcurtis | 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...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 6, 2019
Angry crowds of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] families and civilians began evacuating their last holdout in Baghouz, Syria. U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish and Arab fighting force, continued their relentless pursuit of ISIS militants holed up...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 5, 2019
When 37-year-old Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted Feb. 10, it’s all about the Benjamins baby,” it caused an anti-Semitic uproar in Congress, prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to ask Omar to apologize. Benjamins refer to Benjamin Franklin on the $100...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 4, 2019
Promising to go full steam ahead to investigate 72-year-old President Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) opened a new investigation into obstruction of justice. Nadler knows that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spent the better part of...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 3, 2019
Today’s next big step into space again came from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, where the Dragon 2 crew-cabin spacecraft blasted off March 2 from Cape Canaveral on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. While it’s true that SpaceX received billions from NASA and much technical assistance,...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 2, 2019
North Korea had a different take of what happened when President Donald Trump decided to end the Hanoi summit Feb. 28, realizing that dictator Kim Jong-un had no intent of de-nuking the Korean Peninsula. When Trump met with Kim June 12, 2018 in Singapore, Malaysia,...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 1, 2019
Threatening to throw 35-year-old Venezuelan National Assembly Leader Juan Guaido in jail, 56-year-old President Nicolas Maduro has tied his government to Moscow to intimidate the U.S. into backing down from 72-year-old President Donald Trump’s pledge to democratize...