Im nordostafrikanischen Krisenstaat Somalia sind nach Polizeiangaben bei einem Anschlag auf ein Militärfahrzeug der EU mindestens vier unbeteiligte Zivilisten getötet worden. Dabei handelt es sich um Schulkinder, die zum Zeitpunkt der Explosion am Anschlagsort vorbeiliefen, wie ein Polizist sagte. Außerdem seien weitere Zivilisten verletzt worden.
Chris Edwards
Both parties can be faulted on tax policy. The Republicans are inconsistent; they support large tax cuts but don’t match them with spending cuts, as we saw with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
With Democrats, the problem is incoherence. They claim that the 2017 act was a giveaway to the rich, even though it made the tax code more progressive. And they claim that the rich don’t pay their fair share, even though the top 10 percent pay 71 percent of all federal income taxes. Читать дальше...
Corey Tenold is shooting behind the scenes at Gucci, Dior, Saint Laurent, and more of the top Paris shows.
Barenstein said that more than 200 people had participated in the Simhat Torah prayer services and events.
(Telecompaper) The Telecom Italia Foundation has announced the launch of 'Dislessia 2.0' project, described as the first platform in Italy that gives families,...
Regardless of the direction, accountability advocates have to wrestle with the belief on the part of teachers and parents that standardized testing has made schools colder, less human places.
Seth Meyers is ready for a break. Halfway through the taping of his late-night show at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, he runs up and down the aisles, spontaneously answering questions from the audience. Although this part of the program isn’t televised, it’s a secret tradition for him, a way to reward his fans for all the […]
How many gigs to look for, common price ranges and the age-old question of if you really need that warranty.
Ahead of the People Democratic Party convention, Rivers state governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Tuesday, October 2, held a consultative meeting with former vice president Atiku Abubakar at the Government House Port Harcourt.
The largest employees union at the University of Washington ratified a two-year contract last week, but the exact wage increase will depend on whether the university can get more funding from the Legislature. After stopping traffic, staging walkouts and protesting in the office of UW President Ana Mari Cauce over the past few months, 93 […]
YES Network president Jon Litner needs the TV home of the New York Yankees to score as he faces an unusual dealmaking doubleheader. The biggest of Fox’s 22 regional sports networks will go to Disney in the $71.3 billion bundle of entertainment assets Rupert Murdoch agreed in June to unload. The ESPN owner then will […]
The jury in a first-degree murder trial in Hinton has heard from RCMP experts who examined accused killer Tyrell Perron's phone and laptop, uncovering disturbing contents.
Media bankers have dreams, just like the rest of us. But unlike most people, they fantasize about blockbuster megadeals that pay super-high fees along with invitations to sunbathe with the media elite in the Hamptons, bike in Sun Valley and ski in Park City. Unfortunately for them, monster transactions like AT&T’s $109.3 billion acquisition of […]
In 1999 Doug Steiner made a big bet. The real estate developer and owner of Steiner Studios gambled that if he built a sprawling complex of soundstages and production facilities on the East River, major movies and television shows would decamp for Brooklyn and a patch of land between Dumbo and Williamsburg. “I was told […]
The singer is steeped in broader American popular music, whether it takes the form of country, soul, blues or rock ‘n’ roll.
Investors know bitcoin’s violent mood swings well. What they often don’t know is that unscrupulous traders, wielding purpose-built software, can be behind them.
As the season starts to pull closer to reality, we touch on things like transfers, legalized sports betting, a new Division I entry, a team forced to move off campus from a hurricane, and a pleasant surprise in the form of an unexpected return to the court.
Bradley Cooper’s beguiling “A Star Is Born” puts us inside the music and the drama, with Cooper and Lady Gaga showing the kind of chemistry that invests us instantly in this pairing. Rating: 3 stars out of 4.
The Federal Communication Commission's new 5G rules are an "overreach" by the U.S. government, and will force cities to subsidize private telecom companies’ installation of equipment, Seattle officials say.
The NBN is a painful political boil on the government's arse. After the promise of fast 100Mbps connections was squashed by the Abbott/Turnbull government, in favour of a program that said 25Mbps qualified as broadband, there have been all sorts of delays and issues with the service. A recent survey, albeit with a small sample size, quantified some of that pain, with many NBN customers saying they'd prefer to go back to their old ADSL connections. You know things are bad when ADSL looks like a better option. Читать дальше...
For Variety’s latest issue, we asked Kim Kardashian West to write a tribute to Van Jones, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here’s why Jones, the host of CNN’s “The Van Jones Show,” represents a new generation of movers and shakers that capture the best of Manhattan. For […]
Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Men who cannot take responsibility for their actions engage in a strategy that a sociologist has dubbed DARVO. It stands for Deny, Attack and Reverse the role of Victim and Offender, and it's exactly the spectacle that is playing out in the endangered Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation process.
White Horse Golf Club outside was modified to make it easier but it still presents a good challenge.