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Does the president or Congress have war powers?
US President Donald Trump’s decision to send US troops to Iraq has raised questions about the powers of the Congress and the US President. The War Powers Resolution empowers the Congress to declare a war against another country, but does not give the President carte blanche to go to war against other countries. However, the…
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Did the US end Iran’s nuclear programme?
Following the US’ air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres called on all countries to avoid any military confrontation with Iran. “I call on Syria, Egypt and all countries in the region to join us in standing together against the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme,” he added.
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What might come next was one of the 4 conclusions from U.S. airstrikes on Iran
Qatar has said that the attack by Iran on Al Udeid Air Base, a US military base in Qatar, is a violation of the country’s sovereignty. “The attack on Al Udeid Air Base by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is considered to be a blatant violation of the State of Qatar’s sovereignty,” it added. This comes…
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There are four things that came out of the U.S. strikes on Iran
Iran said that the US attack on its nuclear facilities was an “outrageous” violation of the United Nations Charter and international law. The US launched airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities after Israel carried out a series of attacks on Iranian military sites in June. Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the US operation an “outrageous,…
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The politics of the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities are what to watch next
Iran’s armed forces said in a video posted on social media that the US should “degrade” the country’s nuclear programme. “Iran’s missile and nuclear program should be degrading to Israel,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps added. The US launched air strikes against Iran on Saturday in response to Iranian military provocations in the region.
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has first images that are stunning
The Rubin Observatory, one of the largest telescopes ever built, has taken its first images. Called a ‘discovery machine’, it’ll be able to spot and detect changes in the night sky, such as changing brightness of galaxies and stars. The observatory will be able to take photos of the night sky over 10 years and…
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The U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites have not had an impact on the environment
Satellites show that the US bombed three key Iranian nuclear sites, but independent experts said that the country’s nuclear program is far from destroyed. The sites hit by the bombs had nuclear material that was enriched to different levels, the experts said. The two major kinds of uranium isotopes found at these type of facility…
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The military strike avoided by Trump resulted in a huge gamble
A federal appeals court in California has ruled that US President Donald Trump can maintain control over 4,000 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles. This comes after the US-Iran war, during which Israel carried out airstrikes on Iranian military sites. The US didn’t participate in the airstrikes, according to a statement by the Trump…
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Only a few dozen children from Gaza have been treated at a cancer center in Jordan
Israel’s military has permitted food into Gaza for the first time in more than nine weeks amid the ongoing conflict between the enclave’s Hamas rulers and the country. The food was delivered to about 200 people last week, a UN official said. Over 55,000 people, many of them women and children, have died during the…
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Talks with Iran fail to reach a breakthrough as the war enters its ninth day
Iran’s Health Ministry said that 430 civilians have been killed and over 3,000 injured since the Israeli airstrikes on the country began on June 13, state media reported. Israel has said that missiles from Iran hit Haifa. “We do not want to negotiate with anyone while…Zionist regime’s aggression continues,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
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Israel has to wait for Donald Trump to react to the strategic dilemma in Iran
Israel’s military on Monday said that over 400 missiles and hundreds of drones were fired by Iran in the last few days as the ongoing hostilities between the two countries entered the second week. This comes after US President Donald Trump said that he would make a decision on US’ involvement in the war with…
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Take precautions to protect yourself from the hot weather
The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised people to take precautions to stay healthy and safe amid summer heat. People who’re active outside, such as working, exercising or playing sports, are at higher risk of heat-related illnesses, WHO said. They should stop producing heat and cool down in the shade or an air-conditioned room, it…
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Israel is forced to wait for Trump, and is facing a strategic dilemma
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that his country would attack Iran even if US President Donald Trump doesn’t take part. “We’ll achieve all our objectives…If the US doesn’t participate, we will,” he added. Iran has killed 24 people in Israel, the country’s military said in a statement on Thursday.
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The Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits gender-affirming care for children
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a case challenging a ban on the use of medical treatments for gender dysphoria in children. It ruled that the state had “entitled” to ban treatment and that it was not a violation of federal law. This comes after the Arkansas Supreme Court had last year made it…
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The case of the U.S. v. Skrmetti looks at how the trans rights movement gambled on the Supreme Court
A lawyer’s advocate has said that she and her husband had asked in the lawsuit against Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare to do their job as parents. “Don’t allow politics to affect our child’s existence. Being a teenager can be hard. Being a parent of a teenager is not easy. He wants to bar trans…
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Israel’s president is calling for the world to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites
After Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian targets, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “We’re all afraid of the nuclear attack.” He added that Iran was not seeking to use its nuclear programme for military purposes but for civilian purposes. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu also said that his country had set back Iran’s nuclear program by a…
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What happens when there is no feed at all?
American Psychologist David Broad has revealed that generative adversarial networks (GANs) are used to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. GANs are used to mimic the data being trained on, Broad said. In his doctoral thesis, Broad wrote, “I kind of had to find other ways of framing the question…A generative model is just a statistical…
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A flight simulation shows moths navigate by starlight
A team of researchers in Australia captured moths and placed them in a flight simulator, which projected the night sky at 250 times brighter than one used at night. The results showed the brain of the moths is processing the visual images of the Milky Way and circadian-rhythm-induced light-induced state of the moths.
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The ban is being extended by Trump
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday extending the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out from their Chinese parent company to mid-September. This will be the third time that Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out. Earlier, he had signed an executive order delaying…
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There are stars that these moths use to navigate
Researchers captured and placed moths in a ‘flight simulator’ to create a starry sky projection at 250 times brighter than one used at night (to account for circadian-rhythm-induced light state of the moths). To create randomised starry skies for experiments in autumn 2018 and spring 2018, the positions of all individual pixels of the natural…
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The Fed’s economic forecast could be cloudy with a chance of showers
US President Donald Trump said he’s “absolutely ready” to impose new tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, if China doesn’t back off. However, he added that he hasn’t yet decided whether to go ahead with the move. Earlier this month, Trump had tweeted that the US will impose tariffs on a total of…
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Iran retaliates after Israel hits more Iranian military targets
Israel on Monday carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets, Iranian media reported. This comes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned of “more forceful,severe, precise and destructive” strikes. The airstrikes are part of the fourth day of the conflict between the two countries which began after Israel carried out an air strike on…
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Tehran is hitting back despite Israel’s claim that it has control of Iran’s skies
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his country has destroyed nearly a third of Iran’s estimated 100 mobile launchers for ballistic missiles. He added that Israel had gained control of many of Iran’s airspace and had taken out its missile capabilities in less than a year. Israel launched an airstrike on Iran last week after the…
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China is capable of becoming abiotech superpower
Rao Yi, a scientist and leader of the Chinese government’s Science Council, has said that China’s growing life-sciences research has led to a fall of its international stature. “The United States is now the largest funding source for medical research in the world,” he added. Yi further said that China’s life-sciences research has also caught…
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A new $7 billion opioid settlement has been reached
A group of states and US territories has agreed to accept a settlement proposal filed by the National Prescription Opiate Litigation Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee after 5 years of litigation and three years of bankruptcy. The proposal will allow people who want to file a lawsuit against the Sackler family for alleged wrong- doing to do…