by drjmcurtis | 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...
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,...