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Each time Donald Trump refers to a  Georgia prosecutor  ‘s colleague as her “lover,” he’s invoking a strikingly familiar turn of phrase. After all, Trump as president repeatedly used the same word to  mock two FBI officials , including an agent who helped lead the Russia election interference probe, after revelations that the pair had an extramarital relationship and had traded pejorative text messages about him. Throughout years of scrutiny from prosecutors,  culminating in 91 felony counts , Trump has repeatedly sought to deflect attention from himself by making the personal lives of investigators ripe for derision and ridicule. He’s jumped on allegations of affairs and leveled claims of bias against agents, prosecutors and judges. He’s also been quick to exploit the sometimes questionable decision-making, or occasional outright protocol breaches, by officials investigating him as a means to try to discredit entire inquiries. The strategy underscores the extent to which Trump views h

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington, on Jan. 24, 2019. The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment at a provision, Section 3, that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power. The stakes couldn’t be higher in arguments taking place on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) From civil rights to privacy, the 14th Amendment has been a foundation for forging the norms of American law and democracy. But one of its provisions, adopted after the Civil War in 1868, has gotten almost no attention until now: That’s  Section 3 , the part that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power. The Supreme Court on Thursday will be taking its first look at the insurrection clause in a case in which the stakes couldn’t be higher. Former President Donald Trump is the leading candidate for the Republican presidential no

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei views a model of a nuclear facility, in Tehran, Iran June 11, 2023 (photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS) Moreover, using its remaining stock of enriched uranium, the country could have in total enough weapon-grade uranium for six weapons in one month. A new  report  from the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) is sounding the alarm on Iran’s closeness to going nuclear, upgrading its threat level to “Extreme Danger,” the highest of its six ratings, for the first time since the group began following the  Iranian nuclear program  in the 1990s. Since 2022, the report says, Iran’s ‘breakout’ time has been zero— that is to say, Iran “has more than enough… highly enriched uranium (HEU) to directly fashion a nuclear explosive.” Uranium itself is not the only component required to fashion a  nuclear weapon , though it is by far the hardest to come by. “If Iran wanted to f

IDF troops of Division 98 on the ground Khan Yunis, January 29, 2024 (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) Israeli military expert Yair Ansbacher weighs in on the war with Hamas in Gaza and the Qatar-mediated negotiations. Yair Ansbacher, a military expert and consultant, provided his insights regarding Israel's warfare tactics, stressing that this is, counter to some opinions, a war over Israel's very right to exist. "There is a very distorted, yet popular Israeli opinion at present, which holds that since we were 'screwed over,' and seeing as we were caught off guard by a strategically  well planned attack by Hamas , despite all the prior warnings we had, that this means that we must continue to be 'screwed over.' What people do not understand by taking this stance is what's really at stake: the future of all Israeli civilians," Ansbacher said at the beginning of his interview with  Maariv  in late January.   Top Electricity Providers In 20