Egypt’s first female ship captain Marwa Elselehdar – Pics from her Instagram Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite at the time working on a ship that was hundreds of miles away. Marwa Elselehdar […]
The Daily Beast HBO’s ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ Is a Flawed Study of White Colonialist Rape and Terror HBO“The forces involved here are less visible than gunfire, class property or political crusades, but they are no less powerful,” Raoul Peck posits in his new docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, premiering April 7 on HBO.The critically […]
The Daily Beast Trump Isn’t Coming to Matt Gaetz’s Rescue—for Now Zach Gibson/GettyIn the days following revelations about the federal investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz’s alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, advisers to Donald Trump have consistently offered him a simple message: Please, please keep your mouth shut.According to two people familiar with the […]
The Guardian Trump on the ballot again? Daughter-in-law Lara ponders Senate run The former TV producer is said to be an ardent ‘Maga’ champion – and a North Carolina seat is soon to be vacant Lara Trump before her speech to the RNC last August. Since becoming a member of the family, she has displayed […]
A Capitol Police officer died Friday after a vehicle “rammed” into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol complex. The suspect, who was shot by police, also died. Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said that an unidentified male suspect slammed his car into two officers, exited the car with a knife in his hand […]
The Week Obama’s 1st transportation secretary admits to hiding payment from Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire The Justice Department said Wednesday that Ray LaHood, when he was U.S. transportation secretary, accepted a $50,000 check that he “understood at the time” came from Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, purposefully failed to disclose the “loan” as required on two government ethics […]
Amanda Chase’s candidacy for governor in Virginia this year has confronted the state’s GOP with a dilemma that mirrors the challenge facing the national party: How does it reap the benefits of Trumpism but also reduce the costs? Can it retain voters drawn to the party because of former President Donald Trump and his style […]
A Minneapolis court has been shown new police bodycam footage of George Floyd pleading with officers during his arrest, saying: “I’m not a bad guy”. The video shows police officer Derek Chauvin with his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, and Mr Floyd begging not to be harmed. Mr Chauvin, 45, […]
The Conversation White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat An abolitionist lithograph of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Library of CongressThe summer of 2020 was not the first time America […]
Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis since he came to power on 1 January 2019 Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence […]