CNN pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and apologized Sunday over criticism that its journalists entered the daycare where the children were slain and filmed the crime scene without permission. The two CNN journalists involved were fined after authorities found that they had been working in the… Read More
Fake heiress fights deportation
Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation. Sorokin’s case became the basis for the series “Inventing Anna” on Netflix. She was released Friday from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. She… Read More
White House invokes ’62 missile crisis to warn of nuclear ‘Armageddon’
President Joe Biden is declaring that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser, Biden said Thursday night… Read More
Putin gets strange gift from ally for 70th birthday
Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin got an unusual gift for his 70th birthday on Friday: a tractor. As the leaders of several ex-Soviet nations met at the Czarist-era Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus presented Putin with a gift certificate for the vehicle. Tractors have been the… Read More
OPEC+ decides to cut oil production, likely raising prices
The OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries decided Wednesday to sharply cut production to support sagging oil prices, a move that could deal the struggling global economy another blow and raise politically sensitive pump prices for U.S. drivers just ahead of key national elections. Energy ministers cut production by a larger-than-expected… Read More
Man charged with smuggling Burmese pythons in his pants at US border
A New York City man has been charged with smuggling three Burmese pythons in his pants at a U.S-Canadian border crossing. Calvin Bautista, 36, is accused of bringing the hidden snakes on a bus that crossed into northern New York on July 15, 2018. Sponsored: Do NOT Take CBD Until… Read More
37 dead, mostly preschoolers, in horrific daycare attack
A former policeman burst into a daycare center in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing dozens of children and teachers and then firing on more people as he fled in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history. The assailant, who authorities said was fired from the force earlier this year because… Read More
Sweden seizes evidence at pipeline leak site
Sweden’s domestic security agency said Thursday that its preliminary investigation of leaks from two Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” as the cause and a prosecutor said evidence at the site has been seized. The Swedish Security Service said the probe confirmed… Read More
Nobel Prize in literature awarded for controversial memoir on abortion
French author Annie Ernaux was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” the Swedish Academy said Thursday. Ernaux, 82, started out writing autobiographical novels, but quickly abandoned fiction in favor of… Read More
Musk enrages Zelenskyy with controversial peace plan
Elon Musk has gotten into a Twitter tussle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the tech billionaire floated a divisive proposal to end Russia’s invasion. The Tesla CEO, who on Tuesday revived a $44 billion deal to take control of Twitter, argued in a tweet that to reach peace Russia… Read More
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