What’s the mood in global markets? There’s a lot of concern, true. But they need to think over the next 10, 20 and 30 years. [Look at] the years 1965 to 2003. This is a long sweep of history–the Vietnam War, high inflation, low inflation, an oil crisis, a constitutional crisis with President Nixon. The S&P 500 was down 10 out of 38 years. The worst 10-year return was 1....

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In an email to Yahoo, IOC communications director Mark Adams said, “Bruce Jenner won his gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games and there is no issue for the IOC.” This is in response to a petition posted on Change.org that asked the IOC to revoke the medal since Jenner now identifies as a woman. The petition gained attention and as of this writing has more than 13,000 signatures. The petition, however, is believed to be a hoax started by the website 4Chan, which is famous for internet pranks....

Voters in the New England state will head to the polls on February 11 to pick the Democrat they want to see nominated. The contest is the second stop after the all-important Iowa caucuses, which normally help cut down the field of candidates. But issues in the Midwestern state have left the race more open-ended than usual. Historically, the two or three candidates who come out on top in Iowa see increased momentum for the rest of the early-voting season....

Duncan celebrated his kick by blowing a kiss and gesturing with his finger in the direction of Cornhuskers sideline. Nebraska coach Scott Frost tried to ice Duncan by calling consecutive timeouts. “Just having some fun,” Duncan told reporters after the game. “Nebraska fans came for some entertainment and that’s what football is. It’s entertainment. Just having some fun with it.” MORE: Virginia finally beats in-state rival VT After the game, Duncan was awarded a scholarship by the coaching staff....

“It has become increasingly evident that we live in a world in which many, including our media, wish to confuse, misguide and deceive us, calling good evil and evil good,” Chapman said. Chapman made it clear during his speech he believes control over books should be a priority of the legislative session. “The attack on our children is no longer hidden,” he said. “Those who wish to normalize sexually deviant behavior against our children, including pedophilia and incest, are pushing this movement more than ever before....

While life can imitate art, art was not meant to imitate life in this case, a Cyclones official told WHO TV sports director Keith Murphy. The scene depicted was pure coincidence, and that was corroborated McLanahan Studio, which created the poster, in this Facebook posting. “Who knew this year's Cyclone squad unleashing a fast-break against a fictitious team in Hilton Coliseum would be so easily confused with last year's squad playing a different-colored team in a different arena?...

Within days of the controversial leader’s first posting, Technorati ( www.technorati.com ), the San Francisco-based blog search engine, had ranked it as the 3,722nd most-popular blog among the estimated 50 million in cyberspace. It is also, according to Technorati marketing director Derek Gordon, the first ever by a sitting head of state. The bigger question, perhaps, is just who the Iranian leader is targeting for his musings. The site is clearly designed for an international audience....

Zarif’s freedom has been significantly curtailed while in the U.S., and the minister and his delegation have received special visas restricting them to just six New York City blocks. But Zarif was still able to give an interview to the BBC, in which he repeated previous assertions that Iran does not desire a war with the U.S. and delivered a scathing assessment of the Trump administration’s foreign policy strategy....

President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing for an extension to the existing arms embargo on Iran, which is due to expire in October. The U.S. has warned that the embargo is needed to stop Tehran procuring and supplying weapons that are helping fuel conflicts across the Middle East. Rouhani said that remaining signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—from which Trump withdrew the U.S. in 2018—should reject the U....

The Freedom House non-profit released a report into what it called “transnational repression” on Wednesday, naming several authoritarian nations that have used a variety of tactics in recent years to intimidate and kill critics living beyond their borders. The report is based on 608 cases of direct, physical transnational repression since 2014 by at least 31 origin states. The cases took place in 79 countries, including the U.S. and other liberal democracies....

Iranian deputy judiciary chief Ali Baqeri told Iranian media Monday that the judiciary will set up a new branch to prosecute supporters of U.S sanctions, the Fars News Agency reported. Baqeri’s proposal was welcomed by judiciary chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi, who said the U.S. decision to impose further sanctions “makes us more determined to remain committed to our positions and measures against the hegemonic system.” Baqeri described the latest round of sanctions as a crime against humanity and said the U....

The Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Commission of National Security and Foreign Policy released a seven-point statement Tuesday expressing confidence in Iran’s ability to win the diplomatic dispute over whether the U.S. had the right to dismantle the 2015 nuclear agreement it abandoned in 2018. At the same time, the legislators laid out other measures to prepare for “the illegal activation of the trigger mechanism” that would revive pre-deal sanctions. The statement called on the Iran Atomic Energy Organization to “immediately return all nuclear activity” to levels attained before the accord, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action....

In recent weeks, Iranian officials have redoubled their efforts to convince the new administration in Washington that the policies of its predecessor were an abject failure—and that the Islamic Republic remains unbowed. Behind the scenes, however, a very different situation has unfolded. As a new exposé from the Financial Times makes clear, economic conditions within the Islamic Republic have deteriorated precipitously since the start of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policy in mid-2018....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called out the departing administration on Wednesday shortly after Biden took the oath of office. The Iranian top diplomat chastised Trump and leading officials like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for pursuing their “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran. “Trump, Pompeo & Co. are relegated to the dustbin of history in disgrace,” Zarif tweeted. He took the opportunity to remember the U.S. killing of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani last year, along with those affected by sanctions instituted under Trump, and suggested the Biden administration might shift the strategy....

Despite a spate of early grim assessments of Basra in the U.S. media, U.S. military observers on the ground in Iraq are more sanguine, says McCaffrey, who has long been a critic of the war. Yes, Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia has held on to its weapons and much of its turf. But Iraqi forces appear to be largely in control of the city and its ports, and Basra is still mostly calm....

“This is an historic choice, with ramifications for Americans not even born yet,” McCain recently told students at Virginia Military Institute who were about to graduate from gray cadet uniforms to desert camouflage. A premature U.S. withdrawal would create “a Wild West for terrorists” who believe “we Americans are their ultimate target.” For the Iraqis, warned McCain, a U.S. pullout would lead to “genocide” in which “we would be complicit....

The final round of talks were built around changing the current combat mission—which aimed to target extremists in the Islamic State militant group (ISIS)—into an advisory role. According to Iraqi national security adviser Qassim al-Araji, they will assist with advice and training for Iraqi Security Force members. “Many brave men and women gave their lives to ensure Daesh [ISIS’ Arabic acronym] never returns, and as we complete our combat role, we will remain here to advise, assist and enable,” coalition commander Major General John Brennan said....

The Iraqi military’s official Security Media Cell reported Tuesday that a “Turkish aggression” launched by a drone “targeted the vehicle of the border guards in the Sidekan area and caused the martyrdom of the commander of the Second Brigade of the First District Border Guards, the commander of the Third Regiment/Second Brigade and the driver of the vehicle.” The Iraqi military said it would soon provide more details on the incident....

This chart shows that weekly attacks are in a low, nearly four-month plateau with fewer than 600 attacks of all kinds across the country per week. Attacks haven’t been down at those levels for a sustained period since about spring 2005 (and they surpassed 1,500 attacks a week back in June of last year), according to the military’s information. This chart shows violent civilian deaths down in January to just above 500 a month, the lowest figure in about two years:...