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Amsterdam sex workers protest new rules seeking to tame red light district

Sex workers in Amsterdam say they are being unfairly targeted by city plans to tame its red light district. Known as De Wallen, the city’s centuries-old district takes its nickname from the red neon lights that highlight the 300 windows

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Orthodox leader in Kyiv ordered under house arrest by Ukrainian court

A Kyiv court ordered a leading priest to be put under house arrest Saturday after Ukraine’s top security agency said he was suspected of justifying Russian aggression, a criminal offense.

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Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes

Donald Trump’s criminal indictment and Fox News’s civil trial have nothing in common, but, combined, they delivered a rare reckoning for two forces that have transformed politics.

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Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes

Donald Trump’s criminal indictment and Fox News’s civil trial have nothing in common, but, combined, they delivered a rare reckoning for two forces that have transformed politics.

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Live updates: Donald Trump indictment news – CNN

Live updates: Donald Trump indictment news  CNN Live Updates: Trump Likely to Be Arraigned on Tuesday  The New York Times Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes  The New York Times

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Donald Trump has been indicted following an investigation into a hush money payment scheme. Here’s what we know – CNN

Donald Trump has been indicted following an investigation into a hush money payment scheme. Here’s what we know  CNN Will Trump Be Arrested? | Former US President Donald Trump Indicted By New York Grand Jury | News18  CNN-News18 The Issue Is: Indictment

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How Donald Trump is responding to unprecedented indictment – The Washington Post

How Donald Trump is responding to unprecedented indictment  The Washington Post Donald Trump using antisemitic rhetoric to get political donations after indictment  USA TODAY Donald Trump has been indicted following an investigation into a hush money payment scheme. Here’s what we know  CNN

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Learning to Not Read History Backwards

Some years ago, at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, “The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs: The Netherlands, 1940–1945,” I was struck by single photograph of a young couple striding arm-in-arm through one of my adopted city’s most recognizable

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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Law Limiting Drag Shows

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law placing strict limits on drag shows just hours before it was set to go into effect, siding with a group that filed a lawsuit claiming the statute

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