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Help pick our Manchester United-Chelsea combined XI ahead of the champions’ trip to Old Trafford on Nissan Super Sunday. Throughout the week we’ll be asking you to select a goalkeeper, a defence, a midfield and an attack of the combined…
Hands have been wringing over Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelation that Israel has been discussing its annexation of the West Bank—long a diplomatic taboo—with the Trump White House. Trump already exploded a central rule of the long-played diplomatic game by…
When Napoleon Bonaparte executed the Duc d’Enghien in 1804 for what seemed like trumped-up treason charges, the implications extended far beyond questions of French justice and even beyond the borders of France. European leaders were shocked, and the episode helped…
The past two years have shattered Mark Zuckerberg’s faith in social media, or humanity, or both. At least, that’s one of the primary takeaways from Wired magazine’s feature last week on Facebook and fake news, written by Nicholas Thompson and…
Special counsel Robert Mueller may be about to get a guilty plea from another former Trump staffer. The individual in question: Rick Gates. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Gates, Paul Manafort’s longtime junior business…
This week, Facebook looks like it’s trying to give Russia the benefit of the doubt. Rob Goldman, vice president of ads at Facebook, used Twitter on Friday to applaud Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments of multiple Russian people and companies…
