Get Out: As tensions ratchet up, Iran announced it will no longer limit production of nuclear fuel and the Iraqi Parliament voted to kick all American troops out of the country. That’s just the latest fallout from President Trump’s decision to kill …

On The Warpath: An attack on a vehicle convoy outside Baghdad last night took out five or six members of an Iranian-backed paramilitary group. The militants say the dead were medics and not senior leaders. The attack bears the signature of …

Revenge: Iran has vowed to avenge the death of its top general killed  in a US airstrike at the Baghdad airport in Iraq last night. The US and Iran are at the brink of war.   President Trump ordered the strike that killed Maj. …

Familiar Line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s been unable to forge a governing coalition while facing criminal indictment, has asked the Knesset for immunity from prosecution in the three corruption cases charging him with bribery, fraud and breach of trust   In …

Death to America: Protesters angry over US airstrikes chanted “Death to America” today as they attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad. The weekend bombing raid killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia.    The demonstrators set fires, threw rocks, covered walls with graffiti, …

Religious Attacks: Over the weekend a gunman killed two people in a Texas church and a machete-wielding attacker barged into a New York Hanukkah celebration and wounded five people. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the New York attack “an act of terrorism.”   The …

The New Arms Race: Russia announced yesterday that it has finally deployed a hypersonic missile that’s so fast it can outrun any US missile defense systems. It carries a nuclear warhead at speeds up to 3800 mph.   The US is left …

Russia With Love: Just a few days after one of his aides was grabbed and drafted into the Russian military, the offices of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were raided yesterday by masked officers who cut their way in with a metal saw. …

News Lite: It’s Christmas Eve and we’re going take it easy today. President Trump is up and tweeting admiring things about himself that we are not going to repeat for him. He admires himself. Boeing, Boeing, Gone: The Boeing aircraft company fired …

Power Struggle: House Democrats have the Senate Republicans rattled with the threat that they might hold the articles of impeachment until they get a satisfactory trial plan from the Senate. It’s an exercise of power in the face of automatic acquittal …