1 Year to Brexit: So Much to Do, So Little Time Britain’s exit from the European Union has been likened to putting toothpaste back in the tube. But it’s more like trying to separate the fluoride from the paste: complicated and messy. Thursday marks 365 days until Britain officially leaves […]
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Amal Clooney Will Represent Two Reuters Journalists Jailed in Myanmar Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has joined the legal team representing two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar, lending both counsel and an international spotlight to a case that has widely been decried as an attack on free press. The two […]
Saudi Prince Calls For Stepped Up Pressure on Iran Saudi Arabia’s crown prince called on the international community to squeeze Iran economically and politically to avoid a direct military confrontation in the region. Sanctions “will create more pressure on the regime,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told The Wall Street […]
Vatican tamps down report that Pope Francis denies existence of hell The Vatican on Thursday worked to set the record straight on whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview with a well-known Italian journalist. The controversy started when 93-year-old journalist Eugenio Scalfari, the founder of La […]
Trump wants ‘out’ of Syria ‘very soon,’ contradicting top officials President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will end its military presence in Syria “very soon”—contradicting his secretaries of state and defense, who have said U.S. troops should stay in the Arab country for the foreseeable future. Trump’s […]
Hermitage homeowner fatally shoots home invasion suspect, Nashville police say A male suspect in a home invasion is dead after Metro police say a homeowner who was attacked fatally shot him late Wednesday evening in Hermitage. Police identified the suspect as convicted felon Terry Adams, Jr., 27, of Maple Drive […]
Trump Says His Border Wall Is Going Up Right Now. It’s Not. Donald Trump tweeted a series of photos as he hailed the beginning of the construction of his long-promised border wall. “Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL,” he gushed on Wednesday. In a […]
Austin Police Chief On Bomber: ‘He Was A Domestic Terrorist’ Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley called the Austin serial bomber a “domestic terrorist” at a panel hosted by member station KUT on Thursday. Despite previous calls from the community after a string of bombings killed 39-year-old Stephan House and […]
Sacramento hopes to set national example after Stephon Clark shooting The cries for justice booming off the walls of the district attorney’s office here echo in places like Missouri, Minnesota and New York, other states where black men have died at the hands of police. “Say his name!” went the […]
Family’s SUV goes over a cliff, leaving authorities seeking 3 children and clues to what happened In the three days since a passerby happened to notice an SUV upside-down at the bottom of a cliff along the California coast, investigators have determined that five members of the same family were […]
