After waiting nearly 74 years to become king, Charles has used his first six months to meet faith leaders across the country, reshuffle royal residences, stage his first overseas state visit, and hold a sleepover at Windsor Castle that included the coach of the England soccer team. Bloody Hell, as a living family member likes to say!
Did the Republican Party mostly manage to load the US Supreme Court with a few unethical and entitled corrupt American creeps?
The original filter for US government corruption was the Senate until the GOP sold out. American investigative journalists have found that Republicans packed SCOTUS with cretinism.
All 9 Supreme Court justices push back on oversight: 'Raises more questions,' Senate chair says
In a rare joint statement, the justices said they want to "provide new clarity.
The Proud Boys is an exclusively male North American far-right neo-fascist organization that promotes and engages in political violence
The World Press Freedom Index compares the levels enjoyed by news media in 180 countries and territories.
Press-bashing has become a reflex among totalitarian dictators, and it’s becoming an ugly crutch.
The definition of press freedom used by RSF and its panel of experts to compile the Index is the following:
While traveling to Asia I had the pleasure of listening to the following complete work of their album Steely Dan for the first time.
It was many years ago, but long after Shanghai was a small fishing village. But thanks to its location by the southern section of the Yangtze River, it has since grown to be the biggest city in China, and one of the largest in the entire world.
The Cuban flag was flown back in 1849 by its Venezuelan born designer Narciso López .
He was an adventurer and Spanish Army general who is best known for his expeditions aimed at liberating Cuba from Spanish rule in the 1850s. His troops carried a flag that López held, which later became the flag of Cuba
The three blue bands represent the three military districts of colonial Cuba central, occidental, and oriental. The two white stripes describe the purity of the independence ideal.
More than 11,000 WGA members of the Writers Guild of America are on strike today for the first time in 15 over a decade.
This action will affect our favorite TV shows after, WGA members voted 98 percent in favor of going on strike if no new deal is reached with studios over reduced job opportunities and the loss of some sources of income due to an industry shift toward streaming services.
Whenever we warn another human being to watch their step we should remind them of our current footprint.
It’s not healthy to spend too much time concentrating on our needs, but we can derive hope from understanding that kindness is closer than we imagine.
Ancient Footprints Suggest Humans Lived In The Americas Much Earlier https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040381802/ancient-footprints-new-mexico…
Of all the isms, the ones I proudly embrace are being able to speak a couple of languages and multiculturalism.
The two primary theories of multiculturalism integrated into a single society are commonly used to describe them as the “melting pot” and the “salad bowl”.
Studying hundreds of older patients, researchers in Germany found that those who reported using a couple of languages daily from a young age scored higher on tests of learning, memory, language, and self-control than patients who spoke only one language.
Protecting our US borders from illegal movement of weapons, contraband, and people, while promoting lawful entry traffic is a big job.