We Can Learn a Lot From the Weird Crew That Keeps Showing Up to Trump’s Trial In the audience for the first time during Tuesday’s testimony was a member of Trump’s immediate family. Obviously it was not his wife Melania, who is reportedly still steamed about Trump’s alleged ... 05/1/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
Meet the Independent Who Is Beating An Incumbent Senator in Nebraska Current polling in the race shows that Osborn may be on the right track with voters. A poll from Change Research shows Osborn at 40% and the incumbent Republican at 38% -- and these numbers come as ... 04/29/2024 - 12:53 pm | View Link
Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world Project 2025 is iconoclastic and dystopian. Those who wish to understand Trump and the movement behind him, and the active threat they pose to American democracy, are obliged to take it seriously. 04/25/2024 - 9:02 am | View Link
Civil War – Film Review Alex Garland’s anti-war feature Civil War concludes by trading thematic depth for action and suspense. Until then, the writer-director’s fourth film does not ... 04/24/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
The PointConversations and insights about the moment. The statement rattled researchers and shocked communities of long Covid patients. Proving persistent live virus that can replicate long after the acute phase and showing that it relates to long Covid ... 04/24/2024 - 4:30 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.