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A 70-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife’s parents and brother in 1989 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening, Reuters reported. According to AP, Billie Wayne Coble received Thursday lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the August 1989 shooting…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US sanctions against Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA will become the main blow to the world’s oil refining in the short term, yet it is the US refineries that will bear the brunt in the first…
Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony before the House Oversight Committee
Michael Cohen closed his remarkable testimony before Congress on Wednesday with an opaque but alarming warning about what could happen if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election and some words addressed directly to his former boss. “My loyalty to…
Manny Farber’s “Cézanne avait écrit,” from 1986. The artist’s work is part of a new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Art work by Manny Farber / Courtesy Quint Gallery Douglas, Arizona, was once a smelter town,…
In the last couple of years, several icons of the state of Minnesota—think Keillor, Franken, Klobuchar—have got a bit scuffed on the road to glory. Not Dominick Argento, America’s leading composer of lyric opera, who died last week, at ninety-one,…
