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 […]
When Brittney Gosney reported her 6-year-old son missing to Ohio police on Sunday, officers had no idea how the story would change later that day. In a matter of hours, the case of a missing child became a homicide investigation. Authorities were sent to the Ohio River, where James Robert Hutchinson’s body was dumped. And […]
By late summer last year, Operation Warp Speed accounts were running dry, so the Trump administration appears to have used a financial maneuver allowing Department of Health and Human Services officials to divert $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Stat News reports. Congress […]
The Guardian A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country People wait in long lines at HEB grocery store in Austin, Texas, on 17 February. Photograph: Montinique Monroe/Getty Images When […]
CAIRO (AP) — At least 15 Africans drowned when their boat capsized Sunday off Libya, a U.N. spokeswoman said, the second shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe in just over a week. Safa Msehli, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, said the dead were on a rubber boat carrying at […]
The Daily Beast The Next COVID-19 Nightmare for People of Color Is Proving They Got the Shot Octavio Jones/GettyAs we near the one-year anniversary of stay-at-home orders in the United States, COVID-19 vaccine distribution has begun, albeit in rather messy fashion. In the U.S. to date, over 49 million people have received at least one […]
