As my shuttle van drove through the park gates and wound its way up Highclere Castle’s imposing driveway, the driver began playing the Downton Abbey soundtrack. While in any other circumstance this might have felt a bit too on the nose, the John Lunn-penned theme only heightened the effect of seeing the castle’s grand Jacobethan-style sweep and surreal spires for the first time. Even before exploring the library, the latest selection for The Daily Beast’s monthly series, The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries, I was swept away with the fantasy of the building I was finally seeing in person. In person, celebrities […]
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Medics from as far away as France who travelled to help as fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, have told RT they weren’t fully prepared for the atrocities and called for the fighting to stop. Intense clashes between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over Nagorno-Karabakh have been raging since late September. The mainly Armenian-populated region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, declared independence from Baku in 1991 and has since been backed by Armenia, which has stopped short of officially recognizing it. Azeri authorities consider Nagorno-Karabakh illegally occupied by Yerevan, proclaiming that they want to get their […]
Tennis star Yulia Putintseva took out her French Open frustrations on her racket on Wednesday after she crashed out at Roland Garros after suffering a third-set collapse in her match with unseeded Argentine Nadia Podoroska. No. 23 seed Putintseva was defeated by two sets to one (6-3, 1-6, 6-2) early on Wednesday by the unheralded Podoroska, eliminating her from the tournament in which she has twice been a quarter-finalist, and it was clear that she was unhappy with her performance. At one particularly contentious moment in the match, Putintseva could no longer restrain her emotions as she furiously slammed her racket six times into […]
Police are investigating the destruction of a 90-year old statue of Jesus that was decapitated and smashed up by a vandal in Texas. A historic statue of Jesus on a church altar in Texas was found to have been vandalised on Tuesday morning. The Diocese of El Paso shared photos taken of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a 90-year-old statue – that had been toppled from its place above the altar, resulting in its destruction. St Joseph Church, Matlock 🇬🇧 are praying for the community of St. Patrick Cathedral in the Diocese of El Paso. The Cathedral was vandalized on 15th Sept […]
A winning streak for the US Open Number One seed Novak Djokovic has ended abruptly after he “accidentally” hit a line judge with a ball right in the throat. The incident earned the Serb a disqualification. The game against Pablo Carreno Busta did not go well for the men’s number-one tennis player; Djokovic was trailing 5-6 in the first set in the fourth round. He lost his own serve after being treated for pain in the left shoulder. The Serbian star then took a ball from his pocket and, with his racket, sent it flying towards the back of the court, […]
Health Insurance And The COVID-19 shock By Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer, EPI. August 30, 2020 Health Insurance And The COVID-19 shock2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/09/healthcare-for-people-150×78.jpg200px200px Because the large majority of nonelderly U.S. households rely on employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) to pay for health care, any economic shock that destroys jobs also destroys access to health coverage. The COVID-19 crisis is one such shock, causing a near-total shutdown of huge swaths of the U.S. economy in March and April. While there was a large bounce back in job growth in May and June and, to a lesser extent, in July, the overall level of employment remains historically depressed relative […]
Biden supporters attacked a 7-year-old boy Thursday night outside of the DNC convention. The boy, Riley, was attacked for wearing a red MAGA hat. Riley was heard on the video begging his mother to dial 9-1-1. “Get off my property! Are you going to destroy my property?” a woman said to a masked Biden supporter. “Yes, we are,” she replied. One of the Biden supporters then grabbed the child’s red MAGA hat and refused to give it back to the child. Riley’s mother didn’t back down and chased the Biden supporters. WATCH (language warning): Moments ago outside of the DNC convention, […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Jessica Tennyson, 34, stays inside her apartment on the southeast side of town as long as she can at night. Eventually, though, the heat is too much for her to bear, and she has to step out into the pitch-black street. “I’m always afraid that one of these times I’m going to be sitting out on my porch and somebody’s just going to go bang, bang bang,” Tennyson told The Daily Beast as she held up her fingers in a way that mimicked a gun. “And I can’t see where I’m going or where I can run.” Tennyson’s neighborhood […]
More than 100 people were arrested Monday, and at least two were shot, following a night of chaos in Chicago’s upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of downtown after crowds smashed windows and looted storefronts in a move that city authorities are calling “pure criminality.” Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the looting an “assault on the city,” and officials have stressed it was not connected to any organized protest, but seemingly spurred after a police-involved shooting in the city’s Englewood section on Sunday afternoon. Hours after the shooting, police responded to reports of widespread vandalism just after midnight on North […]
Previously, a leaked document obtained by Reuters suggested that Germany was warning the EU to prepare contingency plans for Brexit “no-deal 2.0”, and urging member states against acceding to British plans for trade and security deals “at any price”. Junior European Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin took a shot at Prime Minister Boris Johnson over post-Brexit trade talks with Brussels, claiming the UK “needs” the deal more than the EU, reports Reuters. Appearing on Europe 1 radio, the French official was responding to a question: whether she could rule out a no-deal Brexit. Referencing the economic fallout sustained by countries due […]
What a complete shock! Earlier this week The New York Times published an editorial by Mariame Kaba on abolishing the police departments. Advertisement – story continues below This insanity is what passes for intellectual opinion on the far left today. Jordan Schachtel later pointed out that the author of the anti-police is a Soros alumnae. TRENDING: Biden Narrows VP Pick Down to Six Women — But Look Who’s NOT on the List! Abolish The Police, brought to you by George Soros and the gang. pic.twitter.com/R8PeqlUSYP — Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) June 12, 2020 Advertisement – story continues below Mariame Kaba an activist […]
Today, we are broken. Beyond the acute levels of hardship and loss that the global pandemic, ensuing economic crisis, and spike in outrage over racial injustice are bringing, they are also laying bare a host of deep fissures and fragilities within American society. Chief among them are the extraordinary difficulties we are facing in coming together as a nation to effectively address these—and many other—existential challenges. Even on the issues with strong bipartisan support like raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy, background checks for gun purchases, and the need for Medicare to be able to negotiate lower drug prices, we can’t come […]
This was difficult to watch. A mother was arrested near Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia on Saturday for peacefully protesting the Coronavirus lockdown order. The woman, who brought her young son with her to protest, wore a yellow sign that read: ‘If you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any. Magna Carta.’ The protester told the police that she wasn’t doing anything wrong by peacefully standing outside, however they harassed her and repeatedly asked for her name. TRENDING: CROOKED OBAMA PANICS! Deep State Reporter Isikoff Releases His “Leaked” Call – Former President’s Fingerprints All Over Attempted Coup […]