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Sri Lankan health workers denounce the persecution of data scientist Rebekah Jones and hail her determination to protect lives by exposing the real extent of the coronavirus pandemic in the US.

With COVID-19 deaths nearing 350,000, US manufacturing companies, led by the auto companies, have achieved near pre-pandemic output levels with the help of the unions.

With hospitals in the Mexican capital expected to collapse in January, the López Obrador administration is determined to keep the economy open and safeguard profits.

After flooding caused by dam failures in May inundated large sections of Midland County, residents face economic and ecological disaster at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The government is prioritising the demands of big business over public health and safety.

More than 2,000 pages of communications, directives and emails from Quebec authorities at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic reveal a staggering, even criminal, level of indifference and inaction.

Workers at the country’s second largest railroad are threatening to strike after hundreds of railway workers across the industry have contracted COVID-19 and at least 10 have died.

Thurston County Superior Court Judge Carol Murphy ruled in favor of a motion by the sheriff’s office to stop the release of police records about the execution of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl on September 3.

The ex-Stalinist Social-Democratic Party has provided material and political support for the rise of fascism while supporting the government’s “herd immunity” policy.

While Russia’s official death toll from coronavirus stands at just over 55,000, the real number of COVID-19 victims is likely at least double or triple those officially reported.

Predictably, the report is a whitewash with the recommendations calling for little more than further investigation “as to the lines of accountability and responsibility between Departmental heads and Ministers.”

The year is ending amid the greatest economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but Wall Street is finishing the year at a record high.

It's that time of year again...

“Socialism” means that property is collectively owned and operated, and what is more collective than a country’s border?

Warfare History Network

History, Europe

General Freddie Morgan directed the complex planning for Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion.

Soon after the tattered British Expeditionary Force was miraculously rescued from Dunkirk in June 1940, planners at the War Office in London began dreaming of returning to the German-occupied European continent.

If a port could be captured in a surprise attack, troops and supplies could be poured into the bridgehead before the German defenders had a chance to draw breath. Читать дальше...

The globetrotting TV host was stuck at home for much of 2020 but still narrated a new climate-change series – from his dining room hung with duvets.

The late novelist's Discworld series has sold 80 million copies, but TV has barely touched on his work.

Jacqueline Kent keeps her eyes fixed on Vida Goldstein's many decades of involvement in public life.

Katie Mack takes you through the big cosmic questions in a style that informs and entertains. What's more, you'll understand it.

His latest book is a sort of political detective story and Gothic novel albeit with a postmodern twist.

Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers meet the Clippers in Los Angeles at 7 p.m. Wednesday (NBA TV).

OED Word of the Day: Acheronian, adj. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the underworld of the ancient Greeks, or the mythical river Acheron…