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An elite Baltimore police task force spent years plundering the city and its residents for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, drugs, and jewelry. That’s the astonishing revelation from the case against the Baltimore Police Department’s now-defunct Gun Trace…
Despite her stumble as she landed the jump, Nagasu attempted a triple axel, which has a higher base value than Tennell’s double axel. The Program Component Score evaluates a skater’s presentation and artistry on the ice. Judges award points on…
Winter Olympic ice sports are possible due to this one fact: Ice is slippery. The low friction of ice is why speedskaters can reach 35 mph, why figure skaters can twirl in dizzying circles, and why a 40-pound curling stone…
The gray skin in Michelle Obama’s portrait feels at first like a loss, and then like a real gain. © Amy Sherald The former First Lady Michelle Obama’s decision to commission the Baltimore painter Amy Sherald for her official portrait…
Obama is seated, the chair resting, one assumes, on a soft, unseen bed of soil. But the bottoms of his shiny black shoes simply float. © Kehinde Wiley I keep coming back to a bit of skewed perspective near the…
This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in trying to placate his far-right coalition on delaying an effort to
