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Chicago has been here before.

In November 1997, Chicago police Superintendent Matt Rodriguez resigned. That same month, a blue-ribbon commission on police reform released its recommendation on how to address police corruption after 10 officers were indicted in the robbery and extortion of drug dealers.

A decade later, in April 2007, Superintendent Philip Cline resigned.  A video had emerged of an off-duty police officer brutally beating a female bartender. The incident, along with... Читать дальше...

Following the release of a new report this week, it appears the International Atomic Energy Agency's attention on Iran will shift to monitoring the implementation of the UN nuclear agreement. But the agency continues to insinuate that Iran is hiding something.

Nuovo trailer al femminile per il film diretto da J.J. Abrams tra poco nelle sale cinematografiche italiane.

Violence and rampant crime have triggered the flow of asylum seekers from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to the United States, which is seeking to help address the root causes, as this Backgrounder explains.

9 декабря, в День Героев Отечества, в столице пройдет Всероссийский молодежный конвент «Герои нашего времени».

Финальный день форума «Рабочая молодежь» насыщен знаковыми событиями для молодых профессионалов. Важно, что этими активностями участники наполнили его сами.

Посол по особым поручениям МИД России Владимир Барбин ответил на все вопросы участников форума «Российский Север».

Mainstream media coverage of recent student activism at Yale and the University of Missouri reveals a troubling media tendency. The confrontation between a professor and student journalist became a distraction from the real issues: direct and racist threats to students, and the complicity of faculty and school officials.

This episode provides updates on Portugal joining Greece against austerity, US austerity in Puerto Rico and Illinois and useless laws for banks. Finally, we give an in-depth critical analysis of Thanksgiving economics, Germany and refugees, and France and terrorism.

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New climate science knowledge is not making it out of academia and into public policy. As a result, to avoid catastrophic climate disruption at this point, humans need to remove all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that we emit every year, plus one-third more.

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The perceived debate on climate change has discredited traditional climate science communications to such an extent that we are just now... Читать дальше...

For their May 2015 book Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, David Cohen and co-author Krysten Connon interviewed 87  abortion providers in 34 states about harassment and stalking which Cohen says poses a more direct threat to families and providers than shootings. In this interview they share their findings.

Il primo teaser trailer della sesta stagione della serie ispirata ai romanzi di George R.R. Martin. Le dichiarazioni di Ian McShane sul suo personaggio, definito "di fondamentale importanza".

Представители коренных малочисленных народов Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока России собрались в Москве, чтобы обменяться опытом сохранения и развития Русского Севера.

В Приморском крае провели семинары для муниципальных комиссий по делам несовершеннолетних. Специалистам из разных городов и районов выработали единый алгоритм действий в сложных ситуациях с участием детей.

Корпоративные модели — принципиально тот же NUC, они и внешне выглядят как мини-ПК бытового назначения. Собственно, никто не мешает использовать решения «бытовых» линеек NUC и вне домашнего сегмента, тем более что у младших моделей и стоимость практически идентичная, а «тонких» бизнес-NUC не бывает. С другой стороны, корпоративная серия имеет не только трехлетнюю гарантию (такая же и у бытовых мини-ПК Intel), но и трехлетний жизненный цикл, что позволяет не слишком заботиться о проблемах ремонта и замены до 2018 года... Читать дальше...

Победитель первого сезона проекта «ТАНЦЫ» на ТНТ Ильшат Шабаев побывал в Перми в рамках большого гастрольного тура участников проекта и дал несколько советов начинающим танцовщикам.

Before Herbert W. Armstrong died in 1986, we had been warned many times about the final era of God’s Church—called Laodicea in Revelation 3. It would be an era characterized by spiritual lukewarmness—God says that those who become Laodicean are “neither cold nor hot” (Revelation 3:15). They lose sight of God by trusting in material things (verse 17).

Even before the Paris attacks, big changes were afoot in Germany. Germans felt more unsafe than they had in a decade. They were demanding military spending and a greater role in solving the world’s crises. After the Paris attacks, those attitudes have only intensified. With their newspapers warning of a new “world war,” Germans are more ready for military action than at any point since the end of the Second World War.

The November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris caused a tremendous rift between America and the European Union. For the first time ever, a European nation—France—called on the European Union’s collective defense clause instead of turning to the American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) for help. This represents a stunning rejection of American leadership.

Тайская полиция распространила документ, требующий от своих подразделений принять меры по усилению охраны мест, в которых традиционно отдыхают граждане РФ, передаёт «Интерфакс».

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If you follow me on Instagram, you might know that I've been enjoying the warmth and sunshine in Curacao this week but I also have some photos to share of the gorgeous and rather warm autumn we've been having in New York City like this one of Washington Square Park last week. As usual, I'm not going to overload you with a million pics here so to see more, check out my Instagram feed and of course you can also

We’ll never overturn the trafficking narratives backed by big (and bad) data unless we take the time to speak with the workers and ‘victims’ themselves.

Mēs patlaban piedalāmies cilvēces vēsturē lielākajā nekontrolējamā eksperimentā