Month: July 2022
Why Online Shopping Makes You So Happy
Online shopping is more than a hobby for those who get a thrill out of traversing the biggest mall in the world: the internet. It’s also a sport. How else to explain Monica Corcoran Harel’s reaction to the news that
Read MoreRussia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024 – The Associated Press – en Español
Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024 The Associated Press – en EspañolView Full Coverage on Google News
Read MoreMike Pence Urges Conservatives to Look Forward as a Trump Cloud Hovers – The New York Times
Mike Pence Urges Conservatives to Look Forward as a Trump Cloud Hovers The New York Times Hours before Trump speaks, Pence hints at 2024 bid CNN He’s back: Trump returns to Washington for first time since leaving office The Guardian US Pence says
Read More‘Castor and Patience’ opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership
Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears. (Image credit: Philip Groshong/Cincinnati Opera)
Read More5 killed, 50 injured in anti-U.N. protests in east Congo
Demonstrators on Monday had set fires and forced entry into the U.N. mission offices in Goma, accusing the peacekeeping forces of failing to protect civilians amid rising violence in Congo’s eastern region.
Read MoreThe Booker Prize Just Announced the Youngest Author to Ever Make the Longlist
LONDON — Best-selling American writers Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Strout, and Leila Mottley are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Fowler’s novel about Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, Booth, Strout’s symphony of everyday lives, Oh
Read More21% of Women Reported Switching Their Birth Control Method Post-Roe
Lauren Robinson has no desire to have an unplanned pregnancy. So after learning that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June—and reading Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion suggesting that the court should also reconsider Griswold v. Connecticut, the
Read MoreBriton killed by spinning helicopter blade while on Greek holiday
A British man who died after being struck by a helicopter rotor blade near Athens has been named as Jack Fenton.
Read MorePope wears feathered headdress as he apologises for church’s role in Canadian school abuse
The pope donned an indigenous feathered headdress as he visited Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church’s roles in schools where indigenous children were abused.
Read MoreFormer Vice President Mike Pence to release memoir in November
The book will recount Pence’s journey from his Indiana youth to the vice presidency, with stops in the House of Representatives and governor’s mansion in between, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
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