Trump To Announce Whether U.S. Will Break The Iran Nuclear Deal
Ahead of the announcement Tuesday, a look at what the sanctions do, what a U.S. pullout would mean and how Iran could react. European allies warn that Iran could renew nuclear weapons development.
‘New Yorker’ Report Details How Israeli Spies Tried To Discredit Iran Deal
NPR’s Mary Louise speaks with journalist Ronan Farrow about his article in The New Yorker describing how the Israeli company Black Cube was by hired Trump aides to try and dig up dirt on former Obama officials to discredit the Iran deal.
Reports: Intel Firm Was Hired To Discredit Former Obama Iran Deal Negotiators
Obama foreign policy adviser Colin Kahl was reportedly targeted by the Israeli company Black Cube: “It’s especially awful that they not only went after me, but that they went after my family.”
Fall of Gibson: Where have all the guitar heroes gone?
Growing up off-the-grid in the rural West, Tim Montana still remembers that moment, at 6, when he received a nylon-string guitar as a gift. It led to the moment when ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons handed him a Gibson Les Paul guitar right off the Nashville, T…
In West Virginia, GOP tries to tame forces of ‘Trumpism’
In more conventional times, Don Blankenship would be nobody’s poster boy for a successful US Senate candidate. Blankenship is surging in polls ahead of Tuesday’s vote, GOP strategists say, and in a crowded field, he could capture the nomination with a…
In Baghdad, Iraqis embrace return to normalcy, with eye on its fragility
The ceremony opening a small road along the Tigris River in Baghdad could hardly have been more modest – or more symbolic of how normalcy has begun to unfurl across the Iraqi capital for the first time in decades. Blocking the road were two battered c…
Months after Maria, Puerto Ricans take recovery into their own hands
“You can only eat so much sausage and canned tuna,” says Ms. Cotto, teetering on top of a plastic milk crate, her hairnet sliding back around her graying topknot. Cotto and a core group of volunteers have been filling this former public-school cafeter…
Let Iranians decide the regime’s future
President Trump says he will decide by May 12 whether to renew sanctions on Iran if the 2015 nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic is not fixed. For six months, Iran has witnessed political protests and labor strikes by people ranging from drought-…
After Nobel prize falls to #MeToo, what’s next for literature’s highest honor?
Have you ever heard of Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson? Another scandal has now swept Sweden’s most august literary institution – this time involving sexual abuse allegations – and the Nobel Prize in Literature will not be awarded at all in 2018….
Mexico Deploys A Formidable Deportation Force Near Its Own Southern Border
Under U.S. pressure, Mexico continues to crack down on migration on its own southern border, even surpassing America’s deportation numbers in recent years.
Don’t ‘Junk’ The Iran Nuclear Deal, Boris Johnson Says On ‘Fox & Friends’
Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson says the Iran deal can help avoid a nuclear arms race — one that would also include Saudi Arabia.
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