A Mosque Was Bombed. What to Do With the Shoes Left Behind?
Source: The New York Times By MUJIB MASHAL KABUL, Afghanistan — Nobody really knew what to do with the pile of shoes left outside a Kabul mosque targeted by a suicide […]
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Imam in Storm Harvey fake news never visited Texas
Source: BBC News By Georgina Rannard A man has reacted with surprise to seeing his photograph used in a fake story spread on social media that an Imam kept a […]
Pastors who stood by Trump after Charlottesville plead for him to show ‘heart’ for ‘dreamer’ immigrants
Source: Washington Post By Frances Stead Sellers September 4 at 6:51 PM Pastor Jentezen Franklin looked at President Trump across his desk in the Oval Office last week and made an impassioned […]
Record number of British people say they have no religion
Source: Independent BY May Bulman The number of Britons who say they have no religion has hit a record high, new data has revealed. More than half of the British public […]
More than half UK population has no religion, finds survey
Source: The Guardian British Social Attitudes survey shows generation gap on religious affiliation is widening with only 3% of adults under 24 describing themselves as Anglican The survey found that […]
Barack Obama Offers Trump Advice In Inauguration Letter: ‘American Leadership in This World Really is Indispensable’
Source: Time BY Alana Abramson Sep 03, 2017 Barack Obama left Donald Trump four pieces of advice in a letter he put in the Oval Office as he was exiting […]
XFEL: Brilliant X-ray laser comes online
Source: BBC News By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility, which […]
The health benefits of asparagus
Source: BBC Food By Nicola Shubrook What is asparagus and when is it in season? Asparagus is a spear-like vegetable that is a member of the lily family. It’s typically in season […]
Daca: Trump ‘to scrap’ amnesty for young immigrants
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports. He will give Congress six months to draw up […]
Wildfires Across Western U.S. Force Thousands to Flee Their Homes
Source: Time By Christopher Weber and Ellen Knickmeyer / AP 4:59 AM ET (LOS ANGELES) — Wildfires forced thousands to flee their homes across the U.S. West during a sweltering, […]
Malala Yousafzai Says ‘the World Is Waiting’ for Suu Kyi to Condemn Treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Source: Time Pakistani education advocate Malala Yousafzai has called on fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In […]
Why Congress Made Labor Day a National Holiday
Source: Time BY Olivia B. Waxman Sep 01, 2017 Nowadays, many think of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., which falls on the first Monday in September, as a day for […]
Why people think Germans are so efficient
Source: BBC News By Giulia Pines 4 September 2017 In summer 2011, I was working at a small Berlin travel agency and facing a conundrum: my clients literally held tickets […]
North Korea says it conducts hydrogen bomb test; Trump issues trade threat
Source: Reuters By Jack Kim, Soyoung Kim, Steve Holland 8 MIN READ SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of […]
Researchers Show How Simple Stickers Could Trick Self-Driving Cars
Source: Time BY David Z. Morris Sep 02, 2017 A team of researchers from four American universities has provided a troubling preview of how self-driving cars could be tricked into […]
THE WAGES OF TERROR
Source: Time BY JARED MALSIN/ISTANBUL | PHOTOGRAPHS BY EMIN OZMEN—MAGNUM FOR TIME Over the past few years, ISIS has repeatedly targeted tourist hot spots across Europe and the wider Mediterranean region. The slaughter […]
This Actress Changed Her Last Name to Get Roles in ‘Racist’ Hollywood
Source: Time BY Aurelie Corinthios / People Sep 01, 2017 Chloe Bennet is speaking out against discrimination in show business. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star posted an Instagram praising actor Ed Skrein for stepping down from playing Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after learning that in the original comic, the character is of mixed Asian […]
Obama team’s 2020 signals spark chatter among Dems
Source: MSN News BY Amie Parnes Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House […]
The beauty of being a misfit
Source: TED Talk To those who feel like they don’t belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection […]
12 truths I learned from life and writing
Anne Lomott A few days before she turned 61, writer Anne Lamott decided to write down everything she knew for sure. She dives into the nuances of being a human […]