Juan Guaido raises his hand during a National Assembly session in November – CRISTIAN HERNANDEZ/AFP When Juan Guaido raised his right hand and symbolically swore himself in as Venezuela’s interim president nearly two years ago, the tens of thousands watching on a main Caracas avenue rejoiced. As the country’s national anthem, “Glory to the Brave […]
Firefighters work to extinguish flames on a hillside during the Bond Fire in Lake Forest, California (EPA-EFE) More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a blaze in Southern California, but are facing high winds and low humidity expected to stoke the flames further. Thousands of people have already been forced to leave their homes after the […]
George McCalman with artwork for his show, “Tell Me Three Things I Can Do/Return to Sender.” (Peter Prato) In the days that followed George Floyd’s May 25 killing while in police custody in Minneapolis, the emails, texts and phone messages from white people started piling up. “Do you have the bandwidth for a call? I […]
Reuters While Kyle Rittenhouse awaits trial for killing two people at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter protest this summer, his lawyers are in prosecutors’ crosshairs. From the start of the high-profile case, Rittenhouse’s lawyers have attracted nearly as much attention as he has. Now, the 17-year-old’s main lawyer, John Pierce, is off the case, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The snapshots tell the story of a big man with a big, beaming grin. The McIlvain family passes around the pictures, laughing over their son Charlie’s antics captured through the years: Charlie as a youngster camping with a backpack bigger than him, Charlie cheesing for the camera on Christmas with bows […]
It was only recently that U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., had his epiphany: The supporters of President Trump were starting to resemble the people who he used to hang out with more than 15 years ago when — mostly as a lark — he would go on expeditions to the Pacific Northwest looking for Bigfoot. […]
With an eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September set to expire at the end of the month, and Congress and the White House still unable to pass a new coronavirus relief bill, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has renewed her push for legislation that would cancel mortgage and rent […]
A mother, aged 70, has been arrested on suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty and grievous bodily harm. She is believed to have kept her 41-year-old son captive for around 28 years. A relative discovered the man in a Stockholm flat covered in “urine, dirt, and dust,” according to the Swedish newspaper Expressen. The man […]
On Jan. 20, President-elect Joe Biden will move into the White House — and that means President Trump is going to have to find somewhere else to live. Since he changed his legal address from Trump Tower in New York City to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., some have assumed that’s where he’ll […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who is visiting Denmark urged European nations on Wednesday to allow protesters in Hong Kong “a safe haven from the terror” of China’s Communist Party. “The situation in Hong Kong is getting worse by the day and it is important that the world knows that Hong […]