It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Meet Freya, she is the newest member of the Albuquerque Police Department. But she's not like other K9s, Freya, owned by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, is APD's first specialized gun-sniffing dog. "She's on call 24/7, we will send the K9 out to help locate spent shell casings and firearms and []
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) There was much concern, in international circles, about the the U.S. Government’s recent efforts to open a NATO office in Tokyo so as to extend its military alliance against Russia to become also a military alliance against China. When that initiative scared some other NATO members, it was stopped, and […]
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Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
Robert Downey Jr’s multiple roles in @HBO’s limited series ‘The Sympathizer’ represent “America as a whole,” director Park Chan-Wook reveals https://t.co/6gHGnYHOfv— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) April 16, 2024Robert Downey Jr. plays multiple roles in The Sympathizer; a CIA officer, scheming congressman, a grad school professor and self-absorbed Hollywood director seeking to make the definitive movie of the Vietnam War.“I came to realize these guys are actually one and the same because they’re...
AMERICA’S tallest skyscraper could break ground in June after receiving approval from the city. The building just received approval for a height increase, resulting in a skyscraper taller tha
THE son of Chelsea legend Roberto Di Matteo is taking a swing at his own career in sport. Demi Di Matteo may not have the footballing genes that his superstar dad had, but he is still impressing in
This year’s musical performer at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, is so big, Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is offering to buy “early bird” tickets back from buyers and pay ticket holders an extra $50. Similar to a music festival, the Grand Prix has artists perform before the race. That’s usually all pretty standard, but whoever is chosen is so high-profile that many fans believe COTA can turn a bigger profit by reselling tickets at higher prices than the initial $299...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first episode of HBO’s limited series The Sympathizer, which premiered on April 14. “All right, see you stateside,” says Robert Downey Jr’s Claude quips with some gallows humor to Hoa Xuande’s The Captain near the end of the first episode of HBO’s The Sympathizer as communist North […]
When it comes to casual dining, Americans see steak — in the right setting — as an affordable indulgence, though fewer are sipping alcohol.