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Sri Lanka Minister: Easter Bombings A Response To New Zealand Mosque Attacks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s state minister of defense said Tuesday that the Easter attack on churches, hotels and other sites in the South Asian nation was “carried out in retaliation” for the shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques last month, according to a statement. The minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, told Parliament the […]
Sri Lanka Arrests 40 Suspects After Deadly Easter Bombings
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — As a state of emergency took effect Tuesday giving the Sri Lankan military war-time powers, police arrested 40 suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by suicide bombers involved in deadly Easter bombings and the owner of a house where some of them lived, officials said. Sri Lanka’s […]
House Democratic leaders push investigations of Trump, not impeachment
Pelosi told lawmakers in a letter earlier Monday that gathering the facts necessary to hold Trump accountable could be obtained outside impeachment hearings.
Jimmy Fallon’s Bernie Sanders Turns ‘Old Town Road’ Into A Hilarious 2020 Anthem
Except in this case, he’s turned the rap-country crossover hit ― now in its second week in the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 ― into “Old Town Hall” and is full of sly references to 2020 campaign issues. Naturally, it’s also got plenty of cracks about Sanders’ age, including a line comparing him to […]
Kamala Harris Wants To Wield Presidential Powers To Tackle Gun Violence
During a CNN town hall on Monday, Sen. Kamala Harris said that, if elected president, she would take executive action in her first months in office to curb gun violence in the U.S. unless Congress acted first. “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and […]
Washington state lawmaker blasted for saying some nurses ‘probably play cards’ at work
“I would like to take a stand and petition to have the senator experience what really happens during an RN’s 12-hour shift,” a Chicago nurse said.
Kamala Harris Believes Congress Should Move Forward On Impeaching Trump
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she believed Congress should move forward in impeaching President Donald Trump during a CNN town hall on Monday night when asked about the possibility. “For those of us who have been following the investigation and have seen any part of that report, it is very clear that there is a […]
Elizabeth Warren On Climate Plan: ‘No Coal Lobbyists For Head Of EPA’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) promised to make the Green New Deal the centerpiece of her administration’s climate policy if she’s elected president. But that’d be a crowning legislative achievement. On her first day in the White House, Warren said, she’d halt mining and drilling leases on federal lands and set up a program at the […]
‘Hiding in plain sight’: Man sought in murder of teen girls has close community ties
“We believe you are hiding in plain sight.”
Elizabeth Warren: Politics Shouldn’t Prevent Democrats From Trying To Impeach Trump
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says that political considerations should not prevent House Democrats from opening impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in the wake of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. “There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution,” the presidential candidate said Monday evening during a CNN town hall […]
Court says it’s illegal to chalk your tires to enforce parking rules
Marking your tires with chalk is trespassing, not law enforcement, the federal appeals panel said in a Michigan case.
Elizabeth Warren On Breaking Up Amazon: ‘You Don’t Get To Be The Umpire And Have A Team’
But the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful doesn’t want the player calling the shots in the half-a-trillion-dollar game of online retail. Associated PressDemocratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren explains why she wants to break up Amazon. That’s how she boiled down her provocative call to break up tech giants like Amazon, Google-owner Alphabet and Facebook at her CNN […]
Six People Dead After Small Plane Crash In Texas
DALLAS (AP) — A man who was part-owner of a plane that crashed Monday in Texas, killing all six people aboard, said he and his friend who owned the plane regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas. Officials have not yet released the identities […]
Elizabeth Warren Reiterates Support For Marijuana Legalization
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Monday that she absolutely supports the legalization of marijuana. She cited racial disparities as a major reason for that stance. “The best evidence suggests that African Americans and whites use marijuana at about the same rates,” she said at a CNN town hall in New Hampshire […]
Trump Mistakes Which Sri Lankan Official He Talked To And When
In yet another social media flub following the devastating Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that killed at least 290 people and injured hundreds more, President Donald Trump mixed up the country’s president and prime minister. The now-deleted Monday tweet ― archived by Factba.se, a website that tracks and stores the president’s posts ― Trump […]
Elite gymnastics culture is cruel. I had to give up the Olympics to regain my voice.
My UCLA coach encouraged to find my voice again. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth.
5th-grader from prestigious D.C. school among victims in Sri Lanka bombings
Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa was on a leave of absence from Sidwell Friends School and had been expected to return to begin middle school in the fall.
Twitter Users Nail Trump For Lying That No One Close To Him Spoke To Mueller
Trump falsely asserted that the people closest to him were never called to testify by the special counsel ― because the president claimed those people would have said “only very good things” about him. Isn’t it amazing that the people who were closest to me, by far, and knew the Campaign better than anyone, were […]
Nadler subpoenas former White House counsel McGahn after Mueller report
The Judiciary Committee chairman said the lawyer “is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice…”
Andy Hui cheating on Sammi Cheng: Getting all riled up over betrayal
There was an uproar when Hong Kong singer Andy Hui was caught cheating on his pop star wife Sammi Cheng. After a video of him making out with TVB actress Jacqueline Wong in the back of a taxi was uploaded by Hong Kong’s Apple Daily News on April 16, netizens pilloried him, with some even […]
The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards: Shining a light on ageing, assault and loss
NOMINEES FOR BEST ACTOR MOHD FARED JAINAL, 45 Nominated for: Potong by Teater Ekamatra Playing a character of ambiguous gender earned Mohd Fared Jainal his first nomination in the Best Actor category of The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards. He is up for his work in Malay-language production Potong by Teater Ekamatra, in which he […]
Inaugural Edwin Thumboo Prize goes to RI student
A new annual academic prize, named for eminent Singaporean poet Edwin Thumboo (above), will recognise outstanding pre-university student writing on English literature. Thumboo, who is Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), is one of Singapore’s earliest and foremost poets in the English language. The inaugural Edwin Thumboo Prize will be presented on […]
Hope blooms amid family violence
How does domestic violence affect physical space as well as lives? Drama Box’s new experiential installation, Flowers, constructs a fictional home affected by family violence that ticketholders can wander through. Drama Box’s resident artist Han Xuemei emphasises that Flowers is not a site-specific work, but brings its own story to the location – a terrace […]
Meet 22 characters in 22 rooms
If you have ever wanted to interact with storybook characters such as Snow White or Ali Baba, you now have the chance to meet not one, not two, but 22 characters at 22 Stories, a multi-room theatrical production by theatre company Andsoforth Junior, which specialises in family productions. The characters will be stationed in 22 […]
Family road trip meets border crisis
A New York-based couple on the brink of separation sets off on a road trip with two children in tow, as they pursue their respective dreams. The wife is a journalist wanting to document the crisis of child migrants heading from Central America and Mexico to the United States, while the husband has secured funding […]
A meditation on writing and remembering
A young woman trying to make her way as an artist in 1970s New York is the subject of Siri Hustvedt’s seventh novel – an exuberant, nimble-footed piece of work by the prolific American author. Memories Of The Future, narrated by the protagonist’s 61-year-old self, who goes by the initials SH, is a portrait of […]
Game Of Thrones S8E2 recap: Battle ready and baggage free
It is the eve of battle. White walkers are at the gates. Men and women should be getting ready to fight but at Winterfell, they have a more important task: Unpacking personal baggage. Black people deal with racist Northerners. Tormund gets into Brienne’s personal space. Arya sleeps with a co-worker. If Winterfell has a human […]
Human and machine morality tale
In a 1980s Britain where the train of history has jumped tracks ever so slightly, Margaret Thatcher is unseated as prime minister, computer science pioneer Alan Turing survived the 1950s and helped invent the Internet and 25 artificial humans – 12 male Adams, 13 female Eves – come onto the market. British novelist Ian McEwan, […]
Love, Death & Robots
British author Ian McEwan wants to talk about love, death and robots. Yes, robots. Just don’t call what he is doing science fiction. “Science fiction usually sets its scenes in the future and I rather wanted to push things into the past,” says the 70-year-old over the telephone from London. “In science fiction, you can […]