Three dead in Ukraine in latest Russian attacks

Three dead in Ukraine in latest Russian attacks

Three people have been killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine despite new negotiations for an end to the war being announced for the middle of the week. A father and his adult son were killed when a bomb hit a house in the front-line town of Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported…

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German AfD politican found guilty of money laundering, coercion

German AfD politican found guilty of money laundering, coercion

A controversial member of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was found guilty on Monday of money laundering and coercion. A district court in Würzburg ordered 24-year-old Daniel Halemba, the AfD’s top candidate in the Bavarian city ahead of local elections in March, to pay 160 daily fines of €190 ($225). The verdict can…

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Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism

Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism

That a handful of revolutionaries could collect airliners worth millions of dollars and hold Western passengers ransom made it appear the Palestinians had history on their side. They dubbed Dawson’s Field “Revolution Airport.” The French writer Jean Genet, who spent time in Jordan’s Palestinian camps and wrote a book about it, told militants that the…

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How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News

How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News

St. Bride’s, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists’ church. Having weathered not a few disasters—the Great Fire of London, in 1666, the Luftwaffe in 1940—it now advertises itself as “A Space for Silence,” offering an hour of contemplation each weekday afternoon, yards from the world’s most famous newspaper…

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Groundhog Day to bring warmer temperatures

Groundhog Day to bring warmer temperatures

After back-to-back weekends impacted by an arctic assault, we’re finally starting to put the worst of the cold behind us. While today wasn’t the warmest, temperatures did climb above freezing for the first time in a couple of days, allowing for a very slow melting process to continue. A much larger warm-up is on the…

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What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish

What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish

What did you make of the President and Melania? And what’s different about filming a movie in the White House or on Air Force One? Well, the film we were doing was actually a documentary. The organization was highly impressive because, on Inauguration Day, we had something like twelve crews all around town. Once they…

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Families take legal action as British tourists die

Families take legal action as British tourists die

Four British people have died within four months after being struck down with stomach bugs while on holiday in Cape Verde, lawyers representing their families have said. Mark Ashley, 55, of Bedfordshire; Elena Walsh, 64, from Birmingham; 64-year-old Karen Pooley, from Gloucestershire, and a 56-year-old man all died last year after contracting severe gastric illnesses…

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Why Jackie Robinson Testified Against Paul Robeson

Why Jackie Robinson Testified Against Paul Robeson

Six days later, he gives another performance, in Washington, D.C., in Room 226 of the Old House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Senator John Wood, of Ku Klux Klan progeny, then shepherd of the HUAC, had invited him to testify about the “communist infiltration of minority groups,” seemingly evidenced by the interest that Black American…

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