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Ex-CIA Analyst: Trump’s Claim About Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses Was Premature

Ex-CIA Analyst: Trump’s Claim About Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses Was Premature

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson During his Wednesday night speech, Donald Trump made the following claim about Iran’s air defenses: “They have no anti-aircraft equipment, their radar’s 100% annihilated, we are unstoppable as a military force.” The White House followed this Friday, with a statement from a spokesperson, Anna Kelley, who further emphasized, “Here are the facts: Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks are down 90 percent, their navy is wiped out, two-thirds of their production facilities are damaged or destroyed, and the United States and Israel have overwhelming air dominance over Iran,” she said. Photos widely circulating show destroyed US Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter at a base in Kuwait, which apparently took a direct hit Friday. It appears that President Trump was a bit premature. The US Air Force had a difficult day on Friday: F-15E (48th Fighter Wing) — Shot down in southwestern Iran. Pilot rescued; WSO still missing. A-10C Thunderbolt II — Shot down and crashed into the Persian Gulf. Pilot reportedly recovered. 2X HH-60G Pave Hawk — Hit during CSAR …

Milk and wheat proteins identified as potent defenses against cholera

Milk and wheat proteins identified as potent defenses against cholera

Published by Jenni Sidey

A glass of milk and a slice of bread do not look like medicine. But a new study from UC Riverside suggests that certain proteins in common foods can make it far harder for cholera bacteria to take hold in the gut, at least in mice. The research found that diets high in casein, the main protein in milk and cheese, and diets high in wheat gluten sharply reduced how much cholera bacteria could colonize the intestines. The difference was not subtle. The team saw “up to 100-fold differences in the amount of cholera colonization as a function of diet alone,” said Ansel Hsiao, an associate professor of microbiology and plant pathology at UC Riverside and the study’s senior author. “I wasn’t surprised that diet could affect the health of someone infected with the bacteria,” Hsiao said. “But the magnitude of the effect surprised me.” Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea, can kill if untreated. Public health officials typically focus on clean water and rapid rehydration. Antibiotics can shorten illness, but they do …

Congress Expands Holocaust Art Recovery Law, Targeting Museum Defenses

Congress Expands Holocaust Art Recovery Law, Targeting Museum Defenses

Published by José Betancourt

Congress has moved to give new life to a law meant to help families recover art stolen during the Holocaust, while at the same time reopening a long-running battle between heirs and the institutions that still hold those works. The US House of Representatives on Monday approved an extension of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a 2016 law designed to make it easier for victims’ descendants to bring restitution claims decades after the fact. The measure, according to the New York Times, which had already passed the Senate unanimously, now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk. Related Articles At its core, the change is about time. The original law gave heirs up to six years to file a claim after identifying a looted work, sidestepping the usual statute-of-limitations arguments that museums have often used to block cases. But courts have still, at times, leaned on the passage of decades to dismiss claims, arguing that it leaves current owners unable to mount a fair defense. The new bill tries to close that door. It would limit …

Videos show Iran’s drone army puncturing U.S. and allied defenses

Videos show Iran’s drone army puncturing U.S. and allied defenses

Published by Sam Flores

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U.S., Israel pound Iran’s defenses and ships as war enters Day 5 : NPR

U.S., Israel pound Iran’s defenses and ships as war enters Day 5 : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A person stands on the roof of a building looking at a plume of smoke rising after a strike on Tehran, the Iranian capital, on Tuesday. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images The war with Iran stretched into a fifth day Wednesday, with Israel launching a new wave of strikes in Tehran and the U.S. saying it torpedoed an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka. The Iranian authorities postponed public mourning rituals for the killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that were set to begin Wednesday. According to Iran’s state media, the ceremonies were postponed due to “overwhelming response.” A new date has not been specified. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said the strikes against Iran would end up costing “the complete destruction of the region’s military and economic infrastructure,” according to the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Here are more of the key updates NPR is reporting on. To jump to specific areas of coverage, use the links below: U.S. strikes | Iran | Spain | …

Iran leans on Shahed drones to penetrate U.S. defenses

Iran leans on Shahed drones to penetrate U.S. defenses

Published by Sam Flores

As the United States and its Middle East allies face Tehran’s response to President Donald Trump’s renewed bombardment of Iran, they must find a solution to a growing problem: drones. Cheap and simple to produce, Iran’s Shahed drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used to overwhelm air defenses in conjunction with other missiles. They have been used to successfully bombard a U.S. embassy, a radar system, an airport and a high-rise, videos on social media show. The issue, experts say, is the long-term ability to intercept them. “The threat from one-way attack UAVs has remained persistent,” Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing Monday. “Our systems have proven effective in countering these platforms, engaging targets rapidly.” The U.S. has not released data on the munitions it faced and shot down. Information from the United Arab Emirates’ Defense Ministry shows that Iran has launched hundreds of Shahed drones at the Gulf state, of which just over 90% have been intercepted. Those interceptions have come at a high cost. …

Poland should ‘begin work’ on nuclear defenses, Nawrocki says – POLITICO

Poland should ‘begin work’ on nuclear defenses, Nawrocki says – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

His comments come amid a growing debate in several European countries about developing their own nuclear weapons in the light of growing threats from Moscow and an erosion of trust in the United States. Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Siliņa, for example, said at the Munich Security Conference this weekend that “nuclear deterrence can give us new opportunities.” Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said talks were ongoing with France about a European deterrent. Asked how Moscow might react to a Polish nuclear weapons program, Nawrocki was dismissive: “Russia can react aggressively to anything,” he said. Source link

Trump’s Crypto Defenses Aren’t Reassuring

Trump’s Crypto Defenses Aren’t Reassuring

Published by José Betancourt

The royal family in Abu Dhabi had a problem. Their AI firm, G42, wanted American chips, but both the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress feared letting them have any out of concern that the chips would be transferred to China. The family solved the problem last year, The Wall Street Journal has discovered, by using the simplest solution that businesses can now employ for a policy obstacle: They seem to have made a deal with the Trump family. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family sometimes called the “Spy Sheikh,” purchased a 49 percent share in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto firm, thus sending $187 million to Trump-family-controlled entities. That spring, the Trump administration reversed American policy and approved the AI-chip transfer. A sitting U.S. president shouldn’t have a business partner. If he did, ideally, that partner would be a U.S. citizen and not an agent of a foreign government. But if the president is going to have a foreign operative as his business partner, …

New research links the heart to the brain, nerves, and immune defenses

New research links the heart to the brain, nerves, and immune defenses

Published by Jenni Sidey

Arteries can narrow with fatty buildup. Blood struggles to move. Oxygen drops. A heart attack can follow, and it remains the world’s top killer. Researchers at the University of California San Diego say the usual way of studying a heart attack misses a key point. The heart does not act alone. In Cell, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences scientists; led by Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Yadav and Assistant Professor Vineet Augustine; describe a linked system that ties the heart to the brain, nerves, and immune defenses. Their work builds a new picture of what happens after a myocardial infarction, also called an MI. Instead of treating the heart as an isolated organ, you can view a heart attack as a body-wide event that sets off a fast chain of signals. A heart attack sends messages your brain can hear The team describes the body as having internal sensing, much like sight and hearing. Just as eyes and ears convert light and sound into signals the brain can use, a damaged heart can send information …