A woman weeps over a small white coffin during a ceremony for the five members of an Israeli family who died in the cable car accident – Shutterstock Three people were arrested by Italian police on Wednesday in connection with Italy’s cable car disaster, with prosecutors alleging that a safety brake had been deliberately deactivated […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are preparing a $1 trillion infrastructure counteroffer to present to the White House by Thursday, reviving negotiations over President Joe Biden’s sweeping investment plan ahead of a Memorial Day deadline for progress toward a bipartisan deal. Republicans sounded upbeat Tuesday after both sides had panned the latest offers. Biden had […]
The new law would allow owners to carry handguns without a licence Texas legislators have passed a bill which would allow most people to carry concealed handguns without a permit. Current state rules require those carrying handguns to have a licence, training and background checks. But Texas’s Republican-run senate has voted to drop the restrictions, […]
Axios White House, NASA tout new satellites to monitor climate change, hurricanes The White House is providing fresh details of a major satellite program that administration officials call poised to reveal vital information about climate change and extreme weather events. Why it matters: Known as the “Earth System Observatory,” the program consists of at least […]
The Telegraph Nero, British Museum, review: a provocative, revisionist take on Rome’s viper-in-chief While other institutions cower in fear of being “cancelled”, what does the British Museum do? It makes a notorious Roman emperor – the matricidal megalomaniac Nero, who died, aged 30, in AD 68, having reigned for nearly 14 years – the star […]
The New York Times Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore. Maternity wards are already shutting down […]
The New York Times Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore. Maternity wards are already shutting down […]
Bloomberg Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’ (Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, […]
The Conversation Are religious people more moral? Dimitris Xygalatas, CC BYWhy do people distrust atheists? A study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people assumed that those who committed immoral acts, even extreme ones such as serial murder, were more […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police escorted more than 250 Jewish visitors Sunday to a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem where clashes between police and Palestinian protesters helped trigger a war in Gaza, according to the Islamic authority overseeing the site. The 11-day conflict between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers came to a fragile halt […]