Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Saturday acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations and mounting evidence that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on…
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Inside the horrors of Howard Hughes’ Hollywood sexcapades
Before there was #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein, there was Howard Hughes, a film producer, owner of RKO Pictures in the late 1940s through the 1950s, and one of the world’s richest men. He was also a legendary playboy — and an often emotionally and physically abusive man who seduced, harassed and cajoled scores of famous…
Exit Mexico’s $13 Billion Airport
Lopez Obrador ditched an airport project backed by some of the nation’s wealthiest businessmen By Andrea Navarro What once was a busy construction site, with many thousands of workers building an airport on land the size of Manhattan, is slowly becoming a ghost town since Mexicos’s incoming president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pulled the plug on…
Surviving Jonestown
In 1978, I went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. By the time I returned, more than 900 people died. I was almost one of them. By JACKIE SPEIER November 10, 201 I was 28, lying on a dusty airplane runway in the Guyanese jungle, and dying. It was just a matter of time. Five bullets had…
