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Heroic citizens and officers chased down a stabbing rampage suspect in Sydney, Australia in a dramatic video that shows one citizen approaching the man with a chair. At the end of the video, the suspect MORE
Heroic citizens and officers chased down a stabbing rampage suspect in Sydney, Australia in a dramatic video that shows one citizen approaching the man with a chair. At the end of the video, the suspect MORE
From our friends at DemocraticUnderground comes this apt comparison between sane energy/infrastructure policy and bull-goose looney. No extra credit for figuring out which is which. MORE
A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants. The move could ultimately limit how much leverage MORE
According to TIME: Universal Pictures announced Saturday afternoon that it will cancel the release of its violent thriller movie The Hunt, following the prior decision to pause advertising it. This news comes less than 24 MORE
Early in the Trump Administration, the go-to distraction when some plan had gone awry was to announce that next week was “Infrastructure Week,” when experts and stakeholders would come together at the White House and apply their collective brainpower to the problem of America’s crumbling infrastructure. MORE
While we work to allow people to submit articles to News Views, we also need some volunteer columnists who want to hone their current or future writing skills and be willing to write their own MORE
RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her MORE
A tenacious federal agent traces the supply line of a group of cagey and experienced cocaine dealers. Starring Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Jason Cabell.
A worshiper thwarted an attack on a mosque Saturday by a young man wearing a helmet and body armor, according to Norwegian authorities and a witness. Hours later, police said they found a dead woman MORE
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Almost 400 people more died in the Netherlands during Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwave than in a regular summer week, Dutch national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. In total, 2964 people died MORE
From AP (more at the link): The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino border city where a man linked to an online screed about MORE
ISIS has made a comeback in Syria as U.S. forces draw down, according to an alarming quarterly report from the Pentagon Inspector General released Tuesday. In the period from April 1 to June 30, the MORE
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have paved the way for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and MORE
Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no MORE
On the his show last night, Tucker Carlson claimed that White Supremacy is “a hoax” and “a conspiracy theory used to divide the country.” Tucker, who is well known for spewing the same rhetoric as MORE
“Truth Seekers,” a comedy-horror series about paranormal investigators starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, will bow on Amazon Prime Video, which has landed international rights to the show and will launch it as an original. MORE
Last week, I woke up oblivious to what was about to happen. I got out of bed, went through the usual morning routine, and while having some toast, I casually opened my smartphone’ browser to MORE
For a quarter century, Texas Republicans have run a ruby-red state, building a conservative bastion where government is limited. Now, the mounting tensions of racially-motivated rhetoric, a polarizing president and Republican infighting have rocked Texas’s MORE
WASHINGTON – Saying that the president has “abandoned the theory that we are one people,” former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric following two mass shootings, including one in El MORE
Instead of denying threats to the planet, far-right propagandists seize on them as another means of sowing racial panic. On Saturday, a gunman killed 21 people at a Walmart in the border city of El MORE
Fighting to protect your land is a risky task. A new study shows that every year, more people are killed defending their environment than those killed while deployed to war zones from the United Kingdom MORE
United Nations — A still-unpublished U.N. report claims that North Korea is skirting U.N. sanctions to the tune of billions of dollars. The news comes on the heels of North Korea defiantly test-firing more projectiles on MORE
‘The Science Of Fictions‘ is a film by Yosep Anggi Noen which is premiering at the Locarno Film Festival this week.
The ongoing American epidemic of mass shootings is forcing hospitals to develop new skills in helping patients with large medical costs. It’s also spotlighting serious gaps in insurance coverage for medical and long-term care. Hospitals MORE
D.A. Pennebaker, a director and cinematographer known for his documentaries, including the classic “Dont Look Back” (1967), “Monterey Pop” (1968) and “The War Room” (1993) and “Elaine Stritch at Liberty” (2002), died Thursday night of MORE