Comment on President Obama calls for patience before major Iran sanctions

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drive through rural Minnesota in high summer and you’ll take in a view that dominates nearly the entire US Midwest: an emerald sea of ripening corn and soybeans. But on a small operation called Salvatierra, 40 minutes south of Minneapolis, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is trying something different.

We can reasonably add election interference to Iran’s current shopping list, paid for by the United States.

On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King bested Bobby Riggs, in what was dubbed The Battle of the Sexes tennis match. Riggs was misogynist who claimed women were inferior and he could beat any female player any time. Up stepped Billie Jean King to take the challenge. 30,000 people filled the Houston's Astrodome and 50 million people watched it on television. History: "Howard Cosell called the match, in which King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Almost since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has been under sanctions that make getting the microelectronics and chips necessary for drone production almost impossible. Impossible at least by conventional means. That's led to unscrupulous characters like Denis Postovoy who's lived in Sarasota for years willing to take a chance on smuggling the goods to Russia for the insane profits.

Kamala Harris on Friday night told rallygoers in Wisconsin not to pay too much attention to the polls, The Hill reports. Said Harris: “46 days until the election. And, what we know, this is going to be a tight race until the very end. So, let’s not pay too much attention to the polls because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work ahead of us.”

A few weeks ago, Eric Hovde became very defensive when it was learned that at least one foreign government had money in his California-based bank. I can't even imagine how he's feeling now that news is breaking that his bank was involved in a $26.2 million deal with a Mexican bank that has ties to drug cartels and money laundering, compliance issues and even bribery of a Texas congressman, per a report by Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: According to a May story in the Wall Street Journal, Banco Azteca has struggled doing business with U.