A Holy Year usually happens once every 25 years, unless a Pope calls an extraordinary one to call attention to a particular issue or celebrate a momentous event. Here are more details about a Holy Year.
Before we get to the substance of what happened on Thursday, when Governor
Texas Governor Greg Abbott shared footage on Friday of construction crews using concrete to "strengthen" his state's border wall between the United States and Mexico.Abbott, a Republican, has aggressively pursued methods to curb illegal immigration into Texas since launching his administration's initiative, Operation Lone Star. The video shared to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday showed construction on Texas' border wall near Maverick County, about 130 miles southwest of San Antonio."The Texas...
Texas has deployed thousands of cameras to the U.S. southern border as Governor Greg Abbott continues to find new ways to curb migration into his state.The cameras, according to a report from NewsNation's Ali Bradley, are a part of Abbott's Operation Lone Star, which was launched in 2021. At least 7,600 cameras have been sent to the border, and around 1,000 have been attached to the wall built by Abbott's administration between the U.S. and Mexico. Bradley reported that the cameras are being...
British actor Charlotte Lewis had claimed she was made the victim of a ‘smear campaign’ after she accused the director of raping her when she was a teenagerA French court on Tuesday acquitted French-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski of defaming British actor Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager.Polanski, 90, was not in court for the verdict at the Paris criminal court. Continue reading
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has once again injected himself into the headlines by pardoning a convicted murderer. A couple of months after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, spontaneous Black Lives Matter protests sprang up across the nation. Daniel Perry,
The stone arches looped solemnly over their shadows, some teetering above the grass, some sinking into it. I was standing in the Park of the Aqueducts in January, about 20 minutes by metro from central Rome. Here, the ruined arcades of six of the 11 aqueducts that once supplied the Eternal City with an astonishing volume of water — by some counts double the per capita water allotment of a typical 21st-century American city — have been preserved.
On Thursday, purportedly on the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott formally pardoned Daniel Perry for his 2020 murder of Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. I say “purportedly” because Abbott never waited for the board before passing judgment in the case; he […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is getting slammed after granting a full pardon to the U.S. Army sergeant who shot and killed a protester during a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, with a former Obama administration official calling the move "worse than [Kyle] Rittenhouse."The sergeant, Daniel Perry, was found guilty of murder in April 2023 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Republican governor said in a statement Thursday that he granted the pardon after an "exhaustive review" was conducted by...
It was here at Cannes, 45 years ago, that Francis Ford Coppola finally emerged from his wilderness of making “Apocalypse Now” with a work in progress, the finish line in sight. That press conference is immortalized in “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” the massively entertaining 1991 documentary by Coppola’s wife, Eleanor, in which the “Godfather” director is seen to declare, “My film is not a movie about Vietnam — it is Vietnam.” It’s an almost mythological moment for cinema, one...
The remains of a rich Roman woman in a grave found during works in the centre of Nijmegen in 2001 could turn out belong to a menial worker, closer inspection by archeologists has shown. The remains were buried in a lead coffin which led archeologists to believe that the occupant must have been a well-to-do Roman woman. However, the “Lead Lady” as she was christened, may have been been far from rich, an investigation has found. “It’s a warning to
While Friedrich Nietzsche popularised the notion of an “eternal return” — in which one’s life would occur again, forever, exactly as it did before — the concept was itself a repetition. Claire Hall explores various shades of this idea in ancient philosophy, from Pythagorean metempsychosis to Stoic predictions about a cosmological reset.