As insiders say emails came from device of disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, both sides question James Comey’s timing and deviation from protocol. Hillary Clinton has led a chorus of Democratic party fury over the FBI’s decision to investigate a new batch of her staff’s emails, a review announced just 10 days before the presidential election and in a striking break with law enforcement tradition ... Read more ... “It’s aberrational.” ... ....
Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past hundred years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we won and because we shouldn’t dig up old graves to frighten future generations. But Beni Zeid is an exception. It goes on for square miles and it is total destruction....
The widow of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, discovered a mysterious bag full of equipment from the moon landing buried in his closet. CarolArmstrong reportedly found the white bag, known as a McDivitt purse, filled with wrenches, lamps, cables and the 16mm camera that included footage of the Apollo 11’s descent on the moon’s surface ... Mrs ... NASA via Gizmodo ....
Russia, facing allegations of war crimes in relation to its policies in Syria, lost its seat on the UN Human Rights Council as the UN General Assembly voted to elect 14 members to the Geneva-based organ. The 193-member General Assembly yesterday elected 14 nations by secret ballot to serve on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe ... ....