Nearly 1,000 New York Times contributors, in addition to tens of thousands of subscribers and readers of the Times, signed an open letter on Wednesday to the paper’s standards editor condemning the publication’s coverage of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people. A second letter organized by the nonprofit Glaad (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against … Read more
Napoli beat Sassuolo 2-0 away to move 18 points clear at the top of Serie A with a seventh straight win thanks to first-half goals from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Victor Osimhen on Friday. Napoli have 62 points from 23 games – Internazionale, who host mid-table Udinese on Saturday are second – and are moving closer … Read more
An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice protests that turned downtown Portland into a battleground. A violent breach of the state capitol. Clashes between gun-toting rightwingers and leftist militants. Over the past decade, Oregon experienced the sixth-highest number of extremist incidents in the nation, despite being 27th … Read more
Manchester United were the subject of an official bid of a minimum £4bn on Friday from Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the chairman of QIB, a Qatari bank. The offer comes with a promise to load no debt on the club and to redevelop the club’s infrastructure. The bid from Sheikh al-Thani, via his Nine … Read more
More than 100 children have been discovered to be illegally employed by a slaughterhouse cleaning firm across the country, federal authorities said. The Department of Labor announced that a federal investigation found Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) employed at least 102 children, ranging from 13 to 17 years old, to work overnight shifts at … Read more
Six people have been shot and killed in various locations in Tate county in Mississippi, local media have reported. The shootings all happened within the community of Arkabutla, local television station NBC5 reported, citing the Tate county sheriff, Brad Lance. The news organization said that one incident happened inside a store where man was shot … Read more
Ron DeSantis has recently gained a reputation as the GOP’s best hope to keep Donald Trump from the top of the ticket in 2024. The governor reinvigorated the culture wars in Florida, including by taking on Disney World, cracking down on shaky claims of election fraud and going after the state’s higher education institutions for … Read more
The west needs to speed up its support for Ukraine as Vladimir Putin will gain a military advantage unless arms deliveries arrive soon, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said in a video address to world leaders at a security conference in Munich in the face of mounting fears that Russia is planning a new offensive. “We need … Read more
Nineteen women in the Netherlands have accused an order of Catholic nuns of years of forced labour while locked up in convents, saying they were “abused on industrial scale”. The case before the Haarlem district court relates to some 15,000 teenage Dutch girls who were the wards of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at … Read more
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his opening address to the Munich Security Conference, said it was “obvious” that Ukraine would not be the last stop of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. The Russian leader will continue to other former Soviet countries, Zelenskiy warned. He said that while the west was discussing tank supplies to Ukraine, the Kremlin was … Read more