The War Zone: Russia today fired another wave of missiles across Ukraine aimed at municipal power and heating systems. It’s unreported how many missiles reached their targets, but explosions were heard in  cities across the country, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa.   The …

Twister: At least three people are dead and more than a dozen were injured by tornadoes that struck Louisiana yesterday. Dark and ominous looking video shows a large gray funnel over New Orleans and power transformers exploding at dusk.   As many …

Loose Change: Justice Department prosecutors said yesterday that Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX crypto currency exchange were engaged in fraud and lied to investors from the start. He faces eight criminal counts.   Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York say …

Crypto Bust: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed crypto currency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas to face federal charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering.   Bankman-Fried presided over a spectacular …

Justice Delayed: Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, the Libyan bomb expert accused of building the device that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988, has been arrested and is in US custody.   He would be the first conspirator …

Prisoner Swap: The recriminations have begun, much of it from the right wing, about the exchange of basketball player Brittney Griner for the world’s most notorious arms dealer, Victor Bout.   A Fox News reporter hounded the White House press secretary, Karine …

Prisoner Swap: Russia yesterday released imprisoned American basketball player Brittney Griner in exchange for Victor Bout, the Russian international arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death.”    The announcement of the exchange came suddenly yesterday morning.   The swap did not include …

The Putsch: Details are emerging about an elaborate right wing plot in Germany to overthrow the government, execute the chancellor, and install a prince descended from German nobility as the new head of state.   It sounded like Germany in the 1930s, …

Trump World:   Donald Trump’s company was found guilty yesterday in a New York State court of 17 counts of tax evasion and fraud in a stunning rebuke to the real estate empire operated by the former president of the United States. …

Georgia On My Mind: The early line is that Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock comes into today’s Senate runoff with a lead over Republican Herschel Walker, but it’s tight.   If Warnock wins, the Democrats will have a majority of 51seats.    Warnock …