Welcome to the first installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week, a regular exploration of animals and their bad behavior (but hey, it’s only natural). And what better place to start than by highlighting an animal crime ring so notorious that it’s now being intensively studied by scientists? Meet the…
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Jorge G. Castañeda, Project Syndicate
Many countries, from the United States and Uruguay to India and Indonesia, will hold elections in 2024. Although pundits, politicians, and political...
A New Mexico grand jury on Friday indicted Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge after prosecutors last year dropped charges.
M A Hossain, Geopolitical Monitor
Over 2023, Pakistan found itself grappling with an unprecedented surge in terrorist incidents.
Gfoeller & Rundell, Newsweek
It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from...
Pierre Besnainou, Jerusalem Post
Support for Israel represents not only a solid foundation for Israel's security but also a comforting sense of...
Natan Sachs, FA
Hamas's horrific attack on October 7 and the devastating war that followed confirmed the calamitous failure of Hamas's strategy of "resistance" through the slaughter of...
David Ombugadu, the governorship candidate of the PDP in Nasarawa has appealed for calm following the unrest caused by the Supreme Court verdict delivered on Friday
GRAEME SOUNESS: I heard some waffle about the need for confidentiality. Well, I happen to believe the reputation and credibility of the Premier League and our football matter a great deal more.
A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, Laurent Sifre and Karl Tuyls, are reportedly in discussions with potential investors to establish their own artificial intelligence (AI) startup in Paris. The potential startup, currently known as Holistic, aims to develop a new AI model, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan. 19). The startup is different from the London-based enterprise software business Holistic AI, the […]
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Tensions are high between the Queensland Government and a youth crime victim advocacy group with calls for a Royal Commission.
Far be it for us to scrutinize or criticize someone of Gordon Ramsay's talent, skill, and stature, but...we have some questions when it comes to his method and recipe for boiled crawfish. Continue reading…
With Stress Positions, his new movie at Sundance, the comedian is hoping to let go of the screen persona he's embodied over and over.
Less than two weeks after winning a national championship and in the midst of interviewing for NFL jobs, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh attended Friday's March for Life in Washington, D.C.
What We’re Tracking **WIND CHILL ADVISORY** - In effect for the entire area from now until noon Friday. Then it goes into effect again 6pm Friday evening until noon Saturday. Overnight lows will drop in the single digits below zero with wind chills around -15° to -25° early Saturday. Saturday looks to be another cold [...]
Six Haitian nuns and two companions were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in the nation’s capital, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince confirmed to the Miami Herald. The nuns, members of the congregation of St. Anne in Port-au-Prince, were abducted as they traveled on a bus along with a young girl and a driver, Archbishop Monsignor Max Leroy Mesidor said. The incident occurred at around 7 a.m. Friday in Port-au-Prince near Avenue Christopher. The area is controlled by the Grande Ravine and Village de Dieu gangs. Читать дальше...
The New York City mayor struck down bills increasing police reporting and limiting solitary confinement.
DERRY, N.H. — His presidential campaign all but left for dead in frozen Iowa, Ron DeSantis rolled through his stump speech at a winery outside Manchester on a cold Wednesday evening, ticking off his bona fides before a crowd of a few dozen voters preparing to vote in a primary he has virtually no shot to win. His campaign had just signaled a shift in focus to South Carolina, a state that – like New Hampshire and every other early-voting state — strongly favors former President Donald Trump. But he says he’s in it for the long haul... Читать дальше...
Daniel Byman & Seth Jones, CSIS
The U.S. strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen show that the war that began after Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, is...
Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza The Associated PressView Full Coverage on Google News
Kalev Leetaru, RealClearPolitics
Hamas' terrorist attack and hostage-taking in Israel on Oct. 7 led in return to large-scale Israeli military action throughout Gaza. As the conflict...
Politico EU
In its verdict on the EU's Green Deal progress, a science advisory body says Europe needs to make massive changes.
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John Rapley, UnHerd
News this week about China's falling stock values suggests the country's economy may be in worse shape than we thought. Even if most countries would look enviously on...