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Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to retire, sources say

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to retire, according to those close to her, despite a number of Democrats calling for her to stand down. Their strategy supposes that Sotomayor might not survive Donald's second term, which would allow him to select a fourth justice for the Supreme Court. Anchor John Berman reacted to the idea with amazement, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Early voting is surging across the country. It’s unclear who benefits

LA Times

After Katie Kern and her father, Robert Kern, cast their ballots for former President Trump in this suburb of Las Vegas, they said they wanted to make sure their vote was counted in the critical battleground state of Nevada so that the Republican would retake the White House. “It’s a problem,” said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Al Jazeera journalist, cameraman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza

Al Jazeera

Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi killed in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, in Israeli strike on their vehicle. Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the Gaza Strip. “This latest attack on Al Jazeera journalists is part of a systematic targeting campaign against the network’s …

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7 months ago

Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel ‘The Alienist,’ dies at 68

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. “Caleb lived his writing life valiantly, with works of politics, history and sociology, but most astonishingly for this historian, with …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three dozen leaders at news …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world have signed a letter expressing solidarity with journalists in Gaza, calling for their safety and freedom to report in the war zone. The letter, released Thursday, was spearheaded by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said at least 89 journalists and media workers have been killed in the …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ

Al Jazeera

Committee to Protect Journalists says of the 99 journalists killed globally last year, 72 were Palestinians. “In December 2023, CPJ reported that more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year,” the organisation said. On February 7, the New York-based press freedom organisation …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Margaret Mead wanted to save the world through LSD. The government had other ideas

LA Times

On the Shelf Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science By Benjamin Breen Grand Central: 384 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Books Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal In …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Cher keeping son’s health status and location a secret after he ‘disappeared,’ document alleges

LA Times

Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman, shown in 1994, was last seen by his estranged wife in April, court documents say. Cher is keeping her son’s whereabouts a secret and meddling with his health treatment amid another “disappearance,” according to a recent court filing. That allegation was made in a court document filed last year by Allman’s estranged wife, Marieangela King, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Trump team changes obscure GOP rules in hopes of clinching presidential nomination early

LA Times

Supporters of Donald Trump gather in Irvine outside a California GOP executive committee meeting, during which delegate-allocation rules were ultimately changed in a way to benefit the former president. This election, “despite a large number of candidates, only the Trump campaign went out and did the really hard grunt work of talking to state parties to try and get them …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Republican lawyer: Disney has a 'strong case' to stop DeSantis' power grab

Raw Story

Disney is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after his appointed board moved to void a contract preserving Disney's self-governing powers over the special taxing district for the Walt Disney World resort complex — a move the company alleges is political retaliation for its criticism of DeSantis' anti-LGBTQ legislation. Disney seeking to block DeSantis' hand-picked oversight board from taking power over …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Journalist’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. More than 30 press freedom groups and news organizations, including the Journal, The New York Times, BBC, The …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Sing, Dance and Pray by Hindol Sengupta

Hindustan Times

This is an engrossing introduction to the life of Abhay Charan De, better known by names like Bhaktivedanta Swami and Srila Prabhupada. 368pp, ₹599; Penguin While drawing attention to De’s influence as a preacher and institution builder, the book also shows us that he drew inspiration from Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Trump ignored repeated warnings from Barr, advisors that election fraud claims were ‘bogus’

LA Times

Witnesses are sworn in to testify before a House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th hearing on Monday. Gen. William Barr recounted in video depositions their repeated admonitions to then-President Trump that his election fraud claims were groundless, in the second hearing this month by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection focused on the former …

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2 years, 7 months ago

The US Senate’s path to a Supreme Court hostile to Roe v Wade

Al Jazeera

How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans gamed the system to give Trump three Supreme Court picks. The US Constitution empowers the US president to nominate a person to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, and that the Senate provides “Advice and Consent” to confirm the nominee. “The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates centennial of his birth

Associated Press

— In the 1950s, Jack Kerouac and fellow writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs came to define a new kind of freewheeling American prose in the midst of an otherwise staid decade. The son of French-Canadian immigrants raised in a blue collar neighborhood in the mill town, Kerouac — born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac — is still best known for …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Prosecutors in multiple states are investigating false Electoral College submissions

NPR

Prosecutors in multiple states are investigating false Electoral College submissions Enlarge this image toggle caption Rey Del Rio/Getty Images Rey Del Rio/Getty Images During the chaotic two months following the 2020 presidential election, groups of Republicans in seven states won by Joe Biden met and signed documents falsely asserting that Donald Trump was or may be the rightful recipient of …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Jodi Anasta's ex-boyfriend Warren Ginsberg is 'dating' OnlyFans model Indi Thew

Daily Mail

Jodi Anasta's ex-boyfriend Warren Ginsberg has found love with eastern suburbs glamour model Indi Thew. Jodi Anasta's ex-boyfriend Warren Ginsberg, 34, has found love with eastern suburbs glamour model Indi Thew, 24 Thew joined OnlyFans in August last year, following reports she'd split from her boyfriend-of-six-months Angus Onisforou. Ginsberg is reportedly so besotted that he's even convinced Thew to shut …

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3 years ago

'Epic train wreck': Wisconsin GOP election probe ‘grift’ gets blasted from all sides

Raw Story

Over the past week, Republicans — including a state senator who chairs the Senate’s election committee — have blasted Speaker Robin Vos’ 2020 election probe as a “charade” that is harmful to democracy. Newspaper editorial boards have also offered harsh criticism, including the Capital Times, which characterized the ‘audit’ as “looney,” and an “epic train wreck.” The outrage directed at …

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3 years ago

Key Wisconsin Republican wants end to GOP-led election probe

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Republican who leads the Senate Elections Committee said Monday that the GOP-ordered review of the 2020 election is riling up people who don’t understand elections and that it needs to end. State Sen. Kathy Bernier, of Lake Hallie, said the investigation led by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman contains “made-up things” meant to …

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54 years, 11 months ago

The Unlikely, Lifesaving Queerness of Bob Dylan

Slate

This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Dylan’s high school yearbook revealed, “Wants to be with Little Richard.” That, of course, was an homage to that founding rocker’s music, not the gay part of himself that Little Richard eventually acknowledged. “ ’Cause,” the poet said, “it seemed that the torch had …

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3 years, 8 months ago

When the Boss of All Dating Apps Met the Pandemic

Wired

On March 1, 2020—11 days before the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, and the scope of human intimacy shrank to the size of a touchscreen—Sharmistha Dubey became the chief executive of the largest internet dating company on the planet. “If we’re expecting 10,000 new subscribers, and we see 6,000—and we see that for two, three, four days—you …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Once denounced as forgery, fragments of old Biblical manuscript earn credibility, a scholarly article claims

Firstpost

By Jennifer Schuessler In 1883, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira announced the discovery of a remarkable artefact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea. “Qumran was a massive shift,” Na’ama Pat-El, an expert in classical Semitic languages at the University of Texas in Austin, said, referring to the area where the Dead …

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to retire, sources say

Early voting is surging across the country. It’s unclear who benefits

Al Jazeera journalist, cameraman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza

Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel ‘The Alienist,’ dies at 68

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection

Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ

Margaret Mead wanted to save the world through LSD. The government had other ideas

Cher keeping son’s health status and location a secret after he ‘disappeared,’ document alleges

Trump team changes obscure GOP rules in hopes of clinching presidential nomination early

Republican lawyer: Disney has a 'strong case' to stop DeSantis' power grab

Journalist’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia

Review: Sing, Dance and Pray by Hindol Sengupta

Trump ignored repeated warnings from Barr, advisors that election fraud claims were ‘bogus’

The US Senate’s path to a Supreme Court hostile to Roe v Wade

Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates centennial of his birth

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend

Prosecutors in multiple states are investigating false Electoral College submissions

Jodi Anasta's ex-boyfriend Warren Ginsberg is 'dating' OnlyFans model Indi Thew

'Epic train wreck': Wisconsin GOP election probe ‘grift’ gets blasted from all sides

Key Wisconsin Republican wants end to GOP-led election probe

The Unlikely, Lifesaving Queerness of Bob Dylan

When the Boss of All Dating Apps Met the Pandemic

Once denounced as forgery, fragments of old Biblical manuscript earn credibility, a scholarly article claims