Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says she has been blocked from seeing her husband or moving him to a clinic in Berlin. She is seen her talking to the media Friday outside Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, where the opposition leader was admitted after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning. Dimitar Dilkoff /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitar Dilkoff /AFP via Getty Images Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says she has been blocked from seeing her husband or moving him to a clinic in […]
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Regnery History The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help, by Faris Cassell is available September 1, 2020, in hardcover (320 pp, $29.99, 978-1684510177) from Regnery History, www.regneryhistory.com. The Unanswered Letter placed first in the 2019 Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Literary Contest for Unpublished Works. Washington, D.C.—September 2, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of V-J day, the official ending of World War II, yet there is an incredible story that has only now been uncovered by award-winning investigative journalist, Faris Cassell, in The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help. In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a […]
In a string of deleted tweets, rapper Kanye West claimed that his wife Kim Kardashian was trying to get him to see a doctor, following his appearance on Sunday. Jean-Baptiste LaCroix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jean-Baptiste LaCroix/AFP via Getty Images In a string of deleted tweets, rapper Kanye West claimed that his wife Kim Kardashian was trying to get him to see a doctor, following his appearance on Sunday. Jean-Baptiste LaCroix/AFP via Getty Images Rapper and fashion designer Kanye West posted, then deleted, a series of tweets Monday night claiming that his wife Kim Kardashian was trying to […]
It may have happened a century ago, but Russia’s Investigative Committee is still uncovering new details about the execution of the country’s last imperial family, the Romanovs. Marina Molodtsova, a senior investigator, explained to newspaper Izvestia that it is now possible to identify some of the participants involved in the killing. When the investigation is complete, their names will be revealed. On the night of July 16, 1918, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and five children, along with some members of their entourage, were shot and bayonetted to death by communist revolutionaries. While there are many known details about their execution […]
What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers, Jessica Pearce Rotondi, ISBN:9781951213077. The Unnamed Press Book. In the wake of her mother’s death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the […]
Mary Trump legal battles against her uncle might seem like a fun little political soap opera, but it’s way more than that, Mary’s lawyer Ted Boutrous explains on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. The attempt to stop her tell-all book before publication—“I think it’s really an effort to intimidate people from speaking, to intimidate the press. But also it’s a political tool. It’s a fundraising tool. It seems to excite people who support President Trump,” he tells hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson. So, what exactly will the book tell us about Donald Trump? Boutrous couldn’t say too much, […]
Outrage online is palpable as a Baltimore mother is sounding the alarm about webcam classes, after a teacher took a screenshot of her son’s bedroom and shared it with police. Courtney Lancaster Sperry, a Navy veteran of four years, was shocked when police arrived at her doorstep unannounced last month, asking to search her home and speak to her 11-year-old son. The incident has sparked outrage across Twitter and Facebook, as many called for the school administrators to be fired for “spying on kids,” while others want the police officers to be fired for conducting a warrantless search of private property […]
One of the world’s most famous porn stars, Riley Reid, has thrown her weight behind the Black Lives Matter protests, revealing that her great grandfather was honored by Martin Luther King Jr. for his civil rights work. Reid has been vocal about her support for the protests that have sprang up in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. The 28-year-old has repeatedly used her popular social media accounts to express support for the movement and to raise questions about police treatment of demonstrators. The adult entertainment star has also shared a black and white image […]
Marissa Guale is like all too many Americans right now. Her husband and father of her two children, Raul, is on a ventilator in a hospital on Long Island, fighting for his life while sick with COVID-19. Raul, a 34-year-old nurse, likely caught the disease while working in a nursing home. When the National Institutes of Health announced an emergency use authorization for the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir, Marissa scrambled friends and family on Facebook to figure out how to get access for Raul, emailing hospital administrators, senators, and doctors. They pressed the Guale family’s case for a potentially lifesaving treatment […]