The sweeping U.S. sanctions on oil firm PDVSA, announced on Monday, means the state-run company may not be able to fulfill contracts with North American buyers, the government of President Nicolas Maduro said. Aimed at driving Maduro from power, the sanctions were the strongest measures yet against the 56-year-old former union leader, who has overseen […]

Black, openly-gay actor Jussie Smollett of the US television program “Empire” was hospitalized Tuesday in Chicago following a possibly hate-motivated attack in which assailants tied a rope around his neck, police and his co-workers said. Smollett’s fellow cast members and production company identified him as the victim. “Given the severity of the allegations, we are […]

Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said Wednesday that net profit increased 37 percent in the latest quarter as growth in cloud computing and other business lines helped offset a slowing expansion in core online retail. The company’s net profit grew to 33.0 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) in the October-December third quarter, compared to 24.1 billion yuan […]

The move is an attempt to stem weak sales of the iPhone, particularly in overseas markets such as China, where a 10 percent rise in the U.S. dollar over the past year or so has made Apple’s products – which already compete at the top end of the market – much pricier than rivals. Apple […]

* Iran, Hizballah, Hamas use threats of escalation to meddle in Israel’s election Hamas bulldozers leveled Gaza border ground, Nasrallah brandished his missiles, Palestinian extremists clashed with settlers and Iran switched to the “offensive,” as Israel’s April 9 election campaign got underway. * Palestinian pride – Murderers are cool! Terrorist murderers are cool! That is the message from the […]

I was 10 years old and spending the night with a friend. we sneaked out of his house and layed in the vacant lot next to his house. this was in the 1960's. we both spotted two afo objects in the sky like stars only they made a half circle direction and then disappeared. fast […]

Me and a friend were sitting in the garden and we noticed ,what we thought was a plane with a light on each point heading directly towards us at aprox 200-300 ft but as it got directly above us we could clearly see this was not plane or drone . it looked similar to a […]

i was at brookfield mcdonald’s and i was taking pictures of the sun i didn’t even realize that i had gotten the shape or the object on my pictures i was shocked when i got home and i’m looking at the pictures that i took if you look at the tree is not moving just […]

I left work in my car for lunch traveling east, looked to my left and spotted a dark rectangle shaped object in the sky that appeared motionless. i slowed my vehicle to observe the object and the vehicle behind had to slow as well. i continued east for 0.9 miles continuing to keep an eye […]

My brother was graduating from basic training from fort knox and it was a long drive, so my dad and i left during the night. somewhere between 11p and 1a. my dad was handicapped, so i waited by the car and stated looking up at the stars. when he finally got to the car, i […]