WASHINGTON — Bei Bei and Mei Xiang, please sit down. This is an intervention. While you’ve been gettin’ your snow on, munchin’ on bamboo and actin’ a fool all day at D.C.’s National Zoo, the rest of us have been either 1) sloshing through this sloppy weather or 2) telecommuting in a food-free house. In other words, you’re both having too much fun right now, and it’s making us gainfully employed bipeds grumpy. Try to look cold and miserable or something — even though that woolly panda fur is keeping you dry and warm. You thought we didn’t notice you living it up like this? You literally live in a zoo, run by nice folks who shot a video of your high jinks Wednesday. Take a look at yourselves in the video below — and apologize to the rest of us who really got the business end of this winter storm. You never sat down, by the way. Get out of that tree. And, for the thousandth time, stop being so goofy! You’ve got company coming on Saturday. The zoo and the Chinese embassy are hosting a housewarming party 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate a new visitor exhibit inside the panda house. So please try and behave yourselves for once, you goofballs.
US strikes Iran and Tehran fires back as hostilities flare again
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles and drones in response as hostilities flare once again in an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months.
The U.S. strikes followed others on Sunday that abruptly ended a month without military action and threatened to fully reignite a conflict that has spiked global oil prices and posed political problems for Republicans in November's midterm congressional elections. The renewed fighting comes after President Donald Trump had appeared to pivot toward trying to bend Iran to his will through economic sanctions.
“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings,” Trump warned on social media.
U.S. Central Command said the latest strikes were in response to Tehran trying to attack commercial ships and American forces in the Middle East. Trump offered an additional explanation, telling Fox News in a phone call that U.S. forces struck Iran's radars.
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