A Common Theme for This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Documentaries
The documentary 4.1 Miles opens to a bright, sunny day on the Aegean Sea. It’s October 28, 2015, and for a moment the setting is beautiful: blue sky, blue water,…
Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma
The Smokehouse Creek Fire, which was sparked on Monday, has already burned across more than 500,000 acres, pushed by high winds and dry conditions. It is the largest of several…
ICJ refuses to order Germany to halt arms exports to Israel : NPR
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam (fourth from left) arrives to read a decision at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday. Peter Dejong/AP hide caption toggle caption Peter…
Columbia students occupy campus building; China’s EVs : NPR
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Iraqi, Kurdish forces in standoff, weeks after Kurdish vote for independence
Iraqi army and Kurdish troops are in a standoff in Kirkuk, a city located in the Kurdistan region, which voted for independence from Iraq last month. Kirkuk holds 10 percent…
San Antonio truck driver pleads guilty in fatal human smuggling case
A 61-year-old San Antonio man pleaded guilty to two federal charges in the human smuggling incident that led to the deaths of 10 undocumented immigrants this summer. James Matthew Bradley…
Who’s Afraid of Judith Butler?
Başak Ertür, a legal scholar and a Turkish translator of Butler’s, told me that more than nine hundred people filled an auditorium in Ankara to hear them speak: “Not just…
Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’? | Cas Mudde
Across the world people have been shocked by social media footage of heavily armed law enforcement officers arresting peacefully protesting students and professors at university campuses around the United States.…
MicroStrategy reports loss of $53 million, stock plunges
Photo: Marco Bello (Reuters)MicroStrategy reported a net loss of $53.1 million, or 3.09 a share, in its first-quarter earnings report but plans to buy more Bitcoin later in the year.…
Hakeem Jeffries Swoops In to Save Mike Johnson From ‘Pro-Putin’ GOP
Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority speaker, and other top Democrats have announced that they will come to the aid of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), agreeing they won’t let the…