Refinery29 Parents Could Get Up To $5,000 With The Next Stimulus Bill This story was originally published on February 8, 2021. Right now, the next COVID relief bill is being debated in the Senate. If it passes, it will return to the House for a final vote before arriving on President Biden’s desk. It’s possible […]
Police cross makeshift barricades set up by protesters during a protest – AP At least 19 Myanmar police officers have crossed the border into India in the latest sign of growing dissent within the security forces and civil service officials who are opposed to the military coup. The first reported case of police fleeing the […]
In Sacramento, California, last Friday, a high school Spanish teacher made a slant-eyed gesture during a Zoom class. “If their eyes went up, they’re Chinese. If they’re down, they’re Japanese,” she said in a video recorded by a student. “If they’re just straight, you don’t know.” Four months earlier, a U.S. marine threatened to shoot […]
The New York Times ‘A Nightmare Every Day’: Inside an Overwhelmed Funeral Home LOS ANGELES — The chapel at Continental Funeral Home was once a place where the living remembered the dead. Now the pews, chairs and furniture have been pushed aside to make room, and the dead far outnumber the living. On a Thursday […]
A U.S. artillery defensive system protecting U.S. and coalition forces at an Iraqi air base that came under attack this week struck down three or four incoming rockets before they hit, a defense official told McClatchy on Thursday. A Pentagon issued a statement later and confirmed that four rockets were struck. Ain al-Asad airbase in […]
The Conversation Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire Inspiration for a mob of angry white men? Getty ImagesFrom Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. Displays of Crusader shields and tattoos derived […]
The Daily Beast Japan’s Gun Laws Worked So Well They Need to Ban Crossbows Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyTOKYO—It’s been said that if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns—but that’s not true in Japan, which has some of the strictest laws on the books forbidding the possession of guns, […]
Nicola Sturgeon Appears At Inquiry Into Scottish Government’s Handling Of Complaints Against Former First Minister – Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe Nicola Sturgeon choked back tears and insisted “I would never have wanted to ‘get’ Alex Salmond” as she rejected as “absurd” his claims of a plot among senior SNP figures to destroy him. The […]
The New York Times Brazil’s COVID Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say RIO DE JANEIRO — COVID-19 has already left a trail of death and despair in Brazil, one of the worst in the world. Now, a year into the pandemic, the country is setting another wrenching record. No other nation […]
Senators Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) on Tuesday pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on the procedures federal law enforcement officials have used to track down those who participated in the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. “I’m anxious to see those who committed unlawful, violent acts on January 6 brought […]