AN ANGRY woman has shared the incident that got her banned from her husband’s family functions. She clapped back at her sister-in-law’s rude comment and people agreed that justice was s
We don’t live in a free country any more. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed. It’s easy to miss the vapor of totalitarianism seeping into America when most of our lives are dominated by 21st-century bread and circuses, propaganda silos, and self-made virtual worlds, layered on top of centuries of American prosperity and stability made possible by the rule of law. The rule of law is the American answer to despotism and totalitarianism. The targets of this nascent totalitarianism are somewhat...
Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. You’re likely to pinpoint a spot in the water, which covers 71% of the planet. Maybe you’ll alight on a place you’ve never heard of — or a […]
As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the borderEvery night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was...
After the U.S. Civil War, white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote. Even now, restoring rights has hit a roadblock.
LONDON (AP) — Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. You’re likely to pinpoint a spot in the
RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — It's been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia's Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. A tattered Cambodian flag flaps gently in []
ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) -- Robeson County deputies have found the truck of a man wanted in the killing of the mother of his two children, Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said on Facebook. Scotti Tyler, 38, is facing charges of first-degree murder and nine counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. The victim, Lydia []
The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed a measure that would stipulate that people who unlawfully block a roadway do not have a cause of action against a driver who, due to concern for their own life, or that of their passengers, inflicts harm while employing vehicular force to escape from those blocking the street."No pedestrian illegally blocking a roadway in violation of R.S. 32:143.2, 216, or any other applicable statute shall have a cause of action against the operator of a motor...
Cole Palmer might be in top form but he is still behind three stars in the England queue out wide. That is the opinion of former Premier League striker and talkSPORT pundit Dean Saunders, who recko
"When they need to make stupid stupider, they send me up," Chaz Stevens said.