With Assad Challenged, a Push to Cut Syria’s Ties to Iran Grows More Unlikely Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance with Tehran. Rebels’ shock advance has dampened those hopes. 12/4/2024 - 3:25 am | View Link
Defeat the Iranian threat by empowering the people of Iran Those U.S. sanctions are already on the books, but Biden stopped enforcing them on day one of his administration, allowing Iranian oil sales to skyrocket form 400,000 barrels per day in January 2021, ... 12/4/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
US deepens sanctions on Iran's 'shadow' oil fleet The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as part of what the U.S. Treasury ... 12/3/2024 - 7:53 pm | View Link
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Starting next year, there won’t be any police officers in Morrison.
Instead, this tiny town of 400 residents — home to the busy Red Rocks Amphitheatre and a steady stream of tourists window-shopping on Bear Creek Avenue — will contract with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for round-the-clock law enforcement services.
The new arrangement is set to take effect on Jan.
For the past month, Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith has had a remarkable number of questions, which he’s posed in a new interview show titled, appropriately, “Shane Smith Has Questions.”
The show, which airs on YouTube and on Vice’s cable TV channel, is clearly meant to be a return to form for both Smith and the company after its bankruptcy, sale to a hedge fund, the layoff of hundreds of employees, and what Smith has recently described as a regrettable, years-long foray into wokeism.
If Smith has questions, so might viewers, including about his aims and standards of fact-checking.
“Now, more than ever, the truth is unclear,” Smith proclaims in an intro sequence.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one of the Earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19 million-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolvesm and wolverines.