GOP Senator Bob Bennett Apologized to Muslims for Trump While on Deathbed
NBC News By Frank Thorp V In the final days of his life, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett turned to his son and asked him, “Are there any Muslims […]
Canadian Morley Safer 84 dies days after retiring
Morley Safer, a CBS television correspondent who brought the horrors of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America in the 1960s and was a mainstay of the network’s news magazine “60 Minutes” for almost five decades, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. NYTimes.com […]
How the Sykes-Picot Agreement Helped Make a Messed-Up Middle East
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement comes on May 19, marking a century that helped shaped the Middle East May 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed by diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to help Britain and France divide the […]
Military Sexual Assault Victims Discharged After Filing Complaints
Source: Time By Mark Thompson Many are booted out with ‘bad paper’ and can’t get upgrades The scariest part of Emily Vorland’s relatively uneventful 2009 deployment to Iraq was that the […]
This is how fascism comes to America
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Kagan May 18 at 7:09 PM Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. […]
Global antibiotics ‘revolution’ needed
Source: BBC A global revolution in the use of antimicrobials is needed, according to a government backed report. Lord Jim O’Neill, who led the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, said a […]
Egypt: Terrorist Attack Likely Downed Missing Flight
Source: MSN ATHENS, May 19 (Reuters) – Aircraft debris was found in the southern Mediterranean by Greek authorities searching for a missing EgyptAir aircraft which vanished from radar screens early […]
Book Review: Talk To Me: Changing the Narrative on Race, Religion, & Education
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
The city with 20 year waiting lists for rental homes
Source: BBC By Maddy Savage 18 May 2016 There’s a hidden reason so many Stockholm renters go for Nordic minimalist interiors. In a capital gripped by an acute housing shortage, […]
Magic mushrooms ‘promising’ in depression
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website A hallucinogenic chemical in magic mushrooms shows promise for people with untreatable depression, a short study on just 12 people […]
Four days, 2,700 miles… and one unlucky camel: The astonishing and luxurious rail journey that takes tourists right across Australia
Source: Daily Mail By Tom Chesshyre For The Mail On Sunday It’s a sun-drenched morning at the East Perth Terminal and the Indian Pacific train gleams brightly beyond the cool, […]
Sri Lanka floods: Huge storm triggers landslides, leaving villages buried
Source: CNN By Juliet Perry, CNN (CNN)A major storm has hammered Sri Lanka, leaving dozens feared dead in landslides and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Thirty-seven […]
Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of ‘spiritual and material damage’
Source: CNN By Steve Almasy and Bijan Hosseini, CNN The outgoing Iranian Parliament is demanding unspecified compensation from the United States for its involvement in “spiritual and material damage” for the past 63 years, Iranian state news reported Tuesday. During its Tuesday morning session, the Parliament cited examples such as […]
The albino who confronted a witchdoctor
Source: BBC By Vibeke Venema BBC World Service Stephane Ebongue fled Cameroon because of the colour of his skin – his albinism made him a target for those who believe […]
South Carolina bans abortion after 19 weeks
Source: Reuters CHARLESTON, SC | BY HARRIET MCLEOD The South Carolina legislature on Tuesday passed a bill banning most abortions after 19 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life was […]
Anti-Muslim School Bullying: Sometimes, It’s Even the Teachers Doing It
Source: The Daily Beast By DEAN OBEIDALLAH A California high-school girl opened her yearbook to find that her first name had been changed to ‘Isis.’ She was told it was […]
Pope Francis: Let’s study idea of ordaining women as deacons
Source: RNS By Rosie Scammell and David Gibson VATICAN CITY (RNS) In an opening with historic import, Pope Francis has said he wants to study the possibility of ordaining women […]
Chimps filmed grieving for dead friend
Source: BBC By Matt Walker A unique, remarkable and intimate film may change the way we think about animals, and their ability to feel grief. The newly-published film captures the […]
US Senate grants September 11 victims the right to sue Saudi Arabia
Flowers are laid at the 9/11 memorial site on 11 September 2015 in New York City. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act gives victims’ families the […]
Iran Arrests Eight Models For ‘Un-Islamic’ Instagram
The Islamic Republic of Iran arrested eight of Iran’s top models for posting ‘immodest’ pictures on Instragram in a crackdown on the site. Tue, May 17, 2016 One of of Iran’s top models, Elnaz Gorokh. (Photo: © Instagram) Related Stories The Iranian regime arrested eight people working in online modelling for posts […]