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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Amy Sherwin, the 'Tasmanian nightingale', was Australia's first big international opera singer

ABC

Before Nellie Melba captivated international audiences, another Australian soprano rose to international fame. Amy Sherwin was before Melba," Bel Canto Young Opera artistic director Suzanne Ortuso said. A scene from the 1978 ABC TV dramatisation of Amy Sherwin's life, showing a young Amy performing to an audience at a concert in the Huon Valley. In November 1935, the West Australian …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Human activity now fuels two-thirds of global methane emissions, report finds

LA Times

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. Although many people associate methane with cow burps and melting permafrost, a paper published this week in the journal Earth System Science Data found that global methane emissions over the last …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Fast-moving Southern California wildfire torches hillside homes, forcing evacuations

Associated Press

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire that swept into a Southern California hillside community this week destroyed five homes and damaged three others, authorities said Tuesday. The flames erupted Monday afternoon and chased residents from the neighborhood in San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, One firefighter was treated for a minor injury but there were no …

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9 months ago

Lost in the malignant normality of the Trumpocene

Salon

The Trumpocene is not normal. On this, Arendt famously warned, “the ideal subject of a totalitarian state is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” If Donald Trump had actually been put on trial, and properly punished for the crimes of …

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9 months, 1 week ago

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

Associated Press

American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates. About 40% of the global methane emissions from oil, gas and coal could have been avoided at no extra cost, which is “a …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Methane emissions from energy industry are triple what government thinks, study finds

LA Times

A flare burns at a well pad in North Dakota. American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, a new comprehensive study calculates. “If we can get this roughly 1% of sites under control, then we’re halfway there because that’s about half of …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Book hits critical mass

China Daily

Its co-authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin after their Pulitzer win. Bird says that both he and Sherwin agreed that what makes the story of Oppenheimer interesting is that he was tried and "destroyed" in the security hearing in 1954 despite his achievements. Yet he was disinvited from even given speeches at universities," Bird says, adding that it's a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Hilary leaves massive flooding, mudslides, upheaval across Southern California

LA Times

Cars are seen stuck in the mud on a street Monday in Cathedral City after Tropical Storm Hilary rolled through Southern California. In the wake of Hilary’s lashing of Southern California, the region awoke Monday to lingering damage from the historic storm, with debris flows and flash floods leaving paths of destruction from San Bernardino’s mountain towns to Riverside’s desert …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Oppenheimer movie: How accurate is Christopher Nolan’s movie about the Manhattan Project?

Slate

The tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks among the most haunting and consequential of the modern era, yet all but its barest outlines are largely forgotten. Oppenheimer was 38 when he was appointed director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the centerpiece of the Manhattan Project, the $2 billion, top-secret World War II program to build the atomic bomb. After the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Where Oppenheimer escaped his legacy

BBC

St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy cdwheatley/Getty Images St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy A new biopic is shedding light on rise and fall of "the father of the atomic bomb". But while Oppenheimer publicly grappled with the moral consequences of his creation after World War Two, few people know …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer?

BBC

Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer? As the movie Oppenheimer is released, Ben Platts-Mills explores the true story of the enigmatic Manhattan Project scientist, and the atomic bomb that made him a "destroyer of worlds". As the roar engulfed the landscape and the mushroom cloud rose in the sky, Oppenheimer's expression relaxed into one of "tremendous relief". He described himself …

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1 year, 9 months ago

‘I’m still buried.’ Some SoCal mountain residents still trapped by snow as new storm hits

LA Times

Firefighters Aaron Thomas, left, and medic Mike Age climb a steep snow berm as they attempt to deliver prescription medicine to a snowed-in San Bernardino mountain resident on Friday in Lake Arrowhead. As Thomas sank almost waist-deep into the snow while trying to balance the insulin delivery, Age called the house “one of the harder ones” they’d attempted to reach …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Southern California Mudslides Damage Homes, Carry Away Cars

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING OAK GLEN, Calif. — Cleanup efforts and damage assessments were underway Tuesday east of Los Angeles after heavy rains unleashed mudslides in a mountain area scorched by a wildfire two years ago, sending boulders across roads, carrying away cars and prompting evacuations and shelter-in-place orders. Eric Sherwin, spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said crews …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Autopsy reveals gruesome causes of death for family killed while camping at Iowa park

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

The taste of Tobago in just one dish

BBC

The taste of Tobago in just one dish RGB Ventures/Alamy Beach shacks serving locals specialties can be found all over Trinidad & Tobago While most of Tobago's food specialties – such as shark and bake, doubles and callaloo – originated in Trinidad, crab and dumpling is quintessential Tobago. Renee Robley Crab and dumpling, Tobago's signature dish, is sweet, salty, spicy …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84,

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 Martin J. Sherwin, a leading …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Are Jan. 6 rioters traitors? So far, criminal charges say no

Associated Press

CHICAGO — Plotted to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory: Check. Among the last treason cases was of American-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino — known as “Tokyo Rose” during World War II for her anti-American broadcasts — convicted in 1949 of “giving aid and comfort” to Japan. Carlton Larson, a University of California law professor and author of “On …

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3 years, 6 months ago

George Floyd anniversary: Mario Gonzalez killed in a police hold that was like ‘drowning on dry land’

The Independent

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3 years, 8 months ago

WATCH: Asian Man Saved from Being Robbed on Streets by Stranger in UK, Incident Gets Live Streamed

News 18

A video shared on Reddit of a live streamer saving a man from getting mugged in London has gone viral on the internet. The chilling footage shared on April 10, shows a streamer named Sherwin walking on the streets in west London near Leicester when he hears someone shouting. Despite Sherwin’s multiple tries to chase the attacker away, he does …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Capitol riot: DOJ refers former prosecutor for internal investigation after ‘60 Minutes’ interview

CNN

CNN — The Justice Department has referred former acting Washington US Attorney Michael Sherwin’s unapproved interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday about the Capitol riot cases to its Office of Professional Responsibility, a department lawyer said in court on Tuesday. It also sets an early tone in the Capitol riot cases and future media coverage, as a federal judge …

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3 years, 9 months ago

US Capitol attack: Existing evidence most likely supports sedition charge, says prosecutor

Firstpost

Evidence the government obtained in the investigation into the 6 January attack on the Capitol most likely meets the bar necessary to charge some of the suspects with sedition, Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who had been leading the Justice Department’s inquiry, said in an interview that aired Sunday. But in an interview with “60 Minutes,” Sherwin said prosecutors had …

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3 years, 9 months ago

‘Facts support’ sedition charges for US Capitol rioters: Official

Al Jazeera

The federal investigator said evidence will likely allow the government to file sedition charges in the January 6 breach. Federal investigators have found evidence that would likely allow the United States government to file sedition charges against some of those involved in the deadly January 6 breach on the US Capitol, a Justice Department official has said. “I believe the …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Trump sedition: Former Capitol riot prosecutor’s comments alarm new no-drama Justice Department

CNN

CNN — Attorney General Merrick Garland is quietly ushering in a change in tone at the Justice Department, making few public comments and staying out of sight – and unlike his predecessor – eschewing commentary about ongoing investigations. That’s one reason why an interview by Michael Sherwin, the former acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, discussing his push …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Former top Capitol riot prosecutor Michael Sherwin says ‘maybe the President is culpable’ when asked about Trump

CNN

CNN — The former top prosecutor for the US Capitol riot said former President Donald Trump might be “culpable” for the January 6 insurrection and federal investigators are “looking at everything,” according to an interview airing on CBS Sunday night. Michael Sherwin, the former acting DC US attorney, also said he believes sedition could be a charge made against some …

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Amy Sherwin, the 'Tasmanian nightingale', was Australia's first big international opera singer

Human activity now fuels two-thirds of global methane emissions, report finds

Fast-moving Southern California wildfire torches hillside homes, forcing evacuations

Lost in the malignant normality of the Trumpocene

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

Methane emissions from energy industry are triple what government thinks, study finds

Book hits critical mass

Hilary leaves massive flooding, mudslides, upheaval across Southern California

Oppenheimer movie: How accurate is Christopher Nolan’s movie about the Manhattan Project?

Where Oppenheimer escaped his legacy

Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer?

‘I’m still buried.’ Some SoCal mountain residents still trapped by snow as new storm hits

Southern California Mudslides Damage Homes, Carry Away Cars

Autopsy reveals gruesome causes of death for family killed while camping at Iowa park

The taste of Tobago in just one dish

Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84,

Are Jan. 6 rioters traitors? So far, criminal charges say no

George Floyd anniversary: Mario Gonzalez killed in a police hold that was like ‘drowning on dry land’

WATCH: Asian Man Saved from Being Robbed on Streets by Stranger in UK, Incident Gets Live Streamed

Capitol riot: DOJ refers former prosecutor for internal investigation after ‘60 Minutes’ interview

US Capitol attack: Existing evidence most likely supports sedition charge, says prosecutor

‘Facts support’ sedition charges for US Capitol rioters: Official

Trump sedition: Former Capitol riot prosecutor’s comments alarm new no-drama Justice Department

Former top Capitol riot prosecutor Michael Sherwin says ‘maybe the President is culpable’ when asked about Trump