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It’s supposed to be a feel-good story about the government shutdown. But when you dig into it a little, it showcases just how terrible the whole situation is. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle reported a story Thursday of a pawned wedding…
At least 680 people have been infected with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, with 414 deaths so far, and the first Ebola outbreak in an active war zone, DRC’s…
At the start of “Brexit,” on HBO, Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch) addresses the camera from the floor of a supply closet. The tale he tells is about the victory, in June, 2016, of the Vote Leave campaign in the referendum…
“The utmost of ambition,” Robert Frost once wrote, “is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of”: not on university syllabi but in the memory of a generation. Few poets achieved that ambition more…
Some ideas are too expensive to implement even for billionaire and technology entrepreneur Elon Musk. One of them, according to Uber, is building underground tunnels under cities to tackle traffic and congestion. The Boring Company, a subsidiary of Musk’s aerospace company…
Several people were reportedly injured in the ensuing stampede, with some spectators climbing trees to save themselves. New Delhi (Sputnik) — A rhino escaped from the Kaziranga National Park situated in the Golaghat and Nagoan districts in the eastern Indian state of Assam on 15 January.…
