Thirty-three years ago this week, a baby was left alone in the yard in Midland, Texas, for just a moment as her mother ran inside to answer a ringing phone. In the minutes she was gone, the baby crawled into an 8-inch well that was partially covered by grass and leaves, and tumbled, 22 feet below the earth. Her rescue, coming over the next three days, gripped a nation in a way that was hardly possible in the days before Twitter and the internet, and before cable news provided a constant stream of commentary on our lives. Here was a pure […]
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This week saw more exchange drama rock the crypto markets. OKEx, one of the industry’s largest crypto-fiat exchanges, suspended all cryptocurrency withdrawals, saying one of the exchange’s key holders has “been out of touch” with the exchange because they are “currently cooperating with a public security bureau in investigations.” Coming hard on the heels of the BitMEX indictments from a couple of weeks ago, this surely will focus the market’s attention on the security of the withdrawal protocols of large exchanges. At the time, concerns surfaced that withdrawals might be halted from BitMEX, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the […]
Fierce fighting continues over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as casualties mount daily. Daniel Lazare, investigative journalist and author of “America’s Undeclared War,” joins us to discuss the the longest-running land conflict in the former Soviet Union, occurring in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Since Sunday, Azerbaijani troops have been fighting forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian military, leaving nearly 100 people dead and perhaps hundreds more injured so far. What’s behind the madness? Shelly Martin, who made history last year as the first Mi’kmaq woman to be appointed as adjudicator of the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia, joins us to discuss the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080525226_149:0:1349:675_1200x675_80_0_0_7442fbc95e2449bbc0b538ca2c7df9e4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Irina Acheeva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202009211080525172-zendaya-becomes-youngest-to-win-emmy/ American actress and singer Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman rose to fame in the late 2000s for her role as Rocky Blue in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up. Zendaya has become the youngest woman to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, making history at the 72nd Annual Emmy Awards. The Euphoria star has shared a series of posts on Instagram to celebrate her win, saying she is “on cloud nine”. ”Still on cloud nine… so grateful, still speechless, to all my friends and family who have tested/tweeted/called etc. I promise I […]
Kellyanne Conway, who is set to address the Republican Convention this week, served as Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, becoming the first woman to manage a triumphant presidential campaign. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has announced she will be leaving the administration at the end of the month, informing the president of her decision on Sunday evening in the Oval Office, reports CBS News. One of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers, Conway issued a statement on 23 August, on the eve of the Republican National Convention, citing the need to focus on her family as the reason for her departure. […]
For The Daily Beast’s membership drive, we’re asking our reporters and editors to tell the stories behind some of their biggest stories. While the working life of my hard-bitten colleagues at The Daily Beast involves a punishing regimen of worn shoe leather, lightning-fast shorthand and an easy facility with navigating the murkier corners of the dark web, my working life is rather different. My best scoops all seem to come from country house dinner parties, shooting weekends and my network of family, friends, and old school and university friends. I’m sorry, but it’s true. When I look back at the last […]
Britain and France are constructing barriers to prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel while in America Trump is creating barriers to keep people from voting. Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief of The Duran; and Dr. Kenneth Surin, professor emeritus of literature and professor of religion and critical theory at Duke University dsicuss what is behind the increase of migrants crossing the English Channel. Britain and France have agreed this week to increase their efforts to stop migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats, according to a UK government minister who took part in talks in Paris on Tuesday. Immigration minister […]
Before they were photographed brandishing guns during a Black Lives Matter protest, Mark and Patricia McCloskey had made a name for themselves in their St. Louis neighborhood, suing and writing angry letters to community groups, and even accusing a neighborhood association of trespassing for taking a picture of their house. The McCloskeys, a pair of lawyers, won internet fame this week after they were filmed pointing guns at racial justice protesters outside their mansion in a gated community. The McCloskeys said the protesters were trespassing on their private street, and that they feared for their lives. But the couple has, for […]
Two people have been stabbed to death at a hotel in the centre of Glasgow by a knifeman who was shot dead by armed police. Six people are in hospital, including a police officer who is “critical but stable.” Armed police are maintaining a cordon around the Park Inn in West George Street in downtown Glasgow on Friday, 26 June. Cameron Whyte, an Australian national, was at the corner of West George Street and Hope Street when he saw a commotion from the direction of the Park Inn. Mr Whyte said it was not clear what was happening but he added: “There was just a large police […]