The president unleashed a two-day Twitter tirade that was unusually angry and defiant even by his standards. It does not take much to get Americans to turn against one another. Partisan polarization was well underway before Moscow got involved. Ex-employees of the Internet Research Agency, which was indicted last week over meddling in the 2016 election, described their often bizarre work lives. Those who have lost children in earlier tragedies will reach out to the newest grieving parents to console, advise and often recruit them to the gun control cause. Funerals and worship services after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., saw grief expressed in anguish, fury, calls to faith and loving remembrances of the dead. When the Snead family invited Nikolas Cruz to live with them, they said, they knew he was troubled and owned guns, but had no inkling of the deadly violence to come. New taxes and fees on ride-hailing services have raised millions of dollars for transportation, infrastructure, and even public schools. A librarian going through a book at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., found a thin envelope that may add to the odd history of a founding father’s hair. He either believes Putin’s denials, or more likely, is afraid of what the Russians have on him. I am a freshman at the high school where 17 people were killed. If you have a heart, you need to advocate for change so this never happens again. There are so many scandals in this administration that many aren’t getting the attention they deserve. In an era of disunity, partisanship and allegations of Russian election meddling, the first president’s farewell address seems prescient. Guns, infant mortality and car crashes show that we’re behind other wealthy nations. America has long used cash and propaganda to try to steer the outcome of foreign votes. A (sculpted) arms race has erupted as athletes in the ice sport with the brooms seek any competitive advantage. Oh, and there is a Men of Curling calendar now. Hamilton is taking a back seat to the new guard of figure skating analysts, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, and his competitive career and protracted battles with cancer have taught him plenty about getting up after a fall. How doping in Russia and a protracted investigative process helped deny William Dutton a ticket to the Olympics. Although he changed the sport, he finished 15th in the giant slalom on Sunday, well behind the gold medal winner, Marcel Hirscher of Austria. Brandishing what he said was part of an Iranian drone shot down by the Israeli military, the prime minister warned in a speech in Munich against crossing Israel’s “red lines.” Driving the well-known No. 3 and No. 43 cars, Dillon and Wallace finished in the top two spots in a race that was packed with tantalizing story lines. The obscene graffiti followed a remark by the Polish prime minister defending a new law criminalizing suggestions that Poland was a perpetrator of the Holocaust. The trip, which already had been postponed once before, was intended to focus on water issues. The agency declined to give a reason for the delay. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” was celebrated at the ceremony, the British equivalent of the Oscars, as sexual harassment was roundly protested. When a uniformed police officer showed up at the monastery, a reporting trip to write about Tibetan traditions turned into something else. The sprawling agreement to boost government spending quietly included a step toward defusing what could be a financial time bomb for 1.5 million retirees. Chinese employers in Australia, mirroring Beijing’s strong-arm tactics, have fired workers who do not recognize Taiwan as part of China. Nearly three years after her arrest in the drowning death of her fiancé, Angelika Graswald speaks publicly about the case that drew widespread attention. In the 3-D film “America’s Musical Journey,” the singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc takes viewers on an exuberant exploration of the country’s creative roots. The nine-step money-management system in “Your Money or Your Life” allowed both its writers to retire early. “Black Panther” arrived to a record-setting $218 million in Presidents’ Day weekend ticket sales in North America and a global total of $387 million. Why has this generation of stage, television and cinematic impresarios found new resonance in the troupe, an old form of communalism? More Recent Articles |
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