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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A US man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting to detonate a pressure cooker bomb in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia), the Justice Department…
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The external administration of Venezuela’s largest private bank Banesco has been revoked nearly 10 months after it was introduced, the country’s banking sector regulator SUDEBAN said. “To revoke the administration measure on taking under control Banesco Banco Universal…
Each week in politics nowadays feels like a parade of horrors. But if the grand story of modern Western politics is the struggle to preserve liberal democracy in the face of rising anti-democratic forces, this past week was actually a…
The 2020 presidential campaign is well underway. Any Democrat with dreams of occupying the Oval Office can see Donald Trump is a vulnerable president who hasn’t broadened his appeal beyond his base. A lot of them are going to run…
In February, 1971, a Broadway-bound musical version of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by John Barry, went to Philadelphia, for a five-week tryout that gave out eleven nights after opening.…
“Bayou,” a 1957 ultra-low-budget and independently produced drama filmed on location, in waterfront Cajun country, in Louisiana, was reissued in 1961, with some added footage, as a sensational exploitation film called “Poor White Trash.” The original film was made with…
