Twitter suspends Iran’s leader over post threatening Trump’s death

Twitter has suspended an account used by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after he posted an image showing a Donald Trump-like figure on a golf course apparently being targeted by a missile strike. The Photoshopped image posted late Thursday on the Iranian leader’s account depicted a figure in red about to hit a golf …

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Spain’s jab rollout dogged by delays, elitist queue-jumpers

MADRID (AP) – Public outrage is growing in Spain as cases of politicians and well-connected opportunists jumping the queue in the national coronavirus vaccination campaign come to light, even as delivery delays have forced some regions to stop new inoculations. Spain’s Defense Ministry has been the latest governmental department to launch an internal inquiry to …

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Troops Still Await Action on Military Transgender Policy After Flurry of Executive Orders

An executive order signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden barring discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity does not apply to U.S. military personnel. But advocates for transgender service members say they expect that a Defense Department policy that puts limits on transgender troops will be overturned soon. As …

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Soldier Found Dead in Kuwait ID’d as Texas National Guard Staff Sergeant

A soldier who died Wednesday in Kuwait in a non-combat incident has been identified as a Texas National Guard staff sergeant. In a statement Friday, the Defense Department named the soldier as Staff Sgt. Timothy Luke Manchester, 34, of Austin, Texas. The initial Army report said Manchester was found unresponsive Wednesday at Camp Arifjan in …

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