RETALIATION: The US struck back yesterday against Iran-backed militias, hitting 85 targets at seven sites in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone attack that killed three US soldiers and injured 40.   An Iraqi general said, “These strikes constitute a violation …

RESPONSIBLE PARENTING: Jennifer Crumbley testified in her defense yesterday in a Michigan courtroom in what is believed to be the first case in which a parent is being held responsible for crimes committed by their child.   Crumbley, 45, was charged with …

CYBERGRILL: A committee of US Senators yesterday put the chief executives of five major social media companies on the barbecue grill for their handling of material considered sexually exploitive or harmful to children.   The Senate Judiciary Committee spent nearly four hours …

January 31, 2024 Vol. 13, No. 2101 THE THREAT PICTURE:  President Biden says he has decided what he will do in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US soldiers in Jordan and injured 40.   Biden did not elaborate on …

FATAL ERROR:  Air defenses covering a small US base in Jordan confused a returning American drone with an incoming hostile drone, resulting in a successful attack that killed three Americans and wounded 34, the NY Times reports.   US officials say two other enemy …

US SOLDIERS KILLED: Three American soldiers were killed and as many as 34 wounded yesterday in a drone strike on a small special forces base in Jordan. The strike is believed to have been carried out by Iran-backed militants, but the …

ORANGE ALERT: Donald Trump went on a First Amendment rant last night after a Manhattan jury awarded writer E. Jean $83.3 million in her defamation lawsuit against the former president. Trump avoided insulting Carroll once again when he posted on his …

MOST VIOLENT: Alabama last night carried out the first execution in the US by nitrogen gas suffocation. Kenneth Smith, 58, one of three men who had been hired to kill the wife of a pastor in 1988, was pronounced dead at 8:25 pm in …

IT’S POLITICAL: The United Automobile Workers yesterday endorsed President Biden for re-election, giving him a working-person’s boost against Donald Trump in the labor vote.  Biden calls himself the “most pro-union president in history.”    “Let me tell you something I learned a long …

IT’S POLITICAL: South Carolina’s Nikki Haley won the first six votes cast at midnight yesterday in New Hampshire’s Dixville Notch and went on to win a psychologic victory in the state’s Republican primary by narrowing the distance between her and Donald …