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- Gaza rocked by fresh airstrikes after Netanyahu vows to keep attacks at ‘full force’
- Fauci: ‘Undeniable effects of racism’ have worsened Covid for US minorities
- Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as ‘GPS’ guidance system, study says
- Matthew McConaughey ‘making calls’ about run for Texas governor – report
- ‘Naughty favours’: Matt Gaetz seeks to ridicule allegations he paid underaged girl for sex
- Tiny traces of DNA found in cave dust may unlock secret life of Neanderthals
- Suez Canal starts work to extend double lane after Ever Given grounding
- Arizona Republican calls Trump ‘deleted database’ statement ‘unhinged’
- Big pharma executives mocked ‘pillbillies’ in emails, West Virginia opioid trial hears
- ‘Everybody is angry’: Modi under fire over India’s Covid second wave
- Coronavirus live: Sturgeon calls for caution as Scotland measures ease; Taiwan cases leap as outbreak worsens
- Biden aides defend controversial Covid mask guidance change
- ‘Their stories need to be told’: the true story behind The Underground Railroad
- Free solo … with a permit: will Yosemite’s new rules put a damper on climbing culture?
- Human waste spills on to Gaza’s blacked-out streets as crisis looms
- Divorces of the rich and famous: a 1% solution or the start of a trend?
- Yanomami beset by violent land-grabs, hunger and disease in Brazil
- First-hand stories shed new light on Nazi death marches
- Who’s to blame for reigniting the Israel-Palestine conflict? Take your pick from Iranian plots to US weakness
- Ignore the hype of Republicans threatening to ‘break away’ over Trump | Cas Mudde
- Why the landmark Bretton Woods deal is as relevant today as in 1944 | Larry Elliott
- What do animals feel? Humans must follow the evidence to find out | Jonathan Birch
- Why are Palestinians protesting? Because we want to live | Mariam Barghouti
- FA Cup final and Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend
- Stephen Curry takes NBA scoring title as Warriors clinch play-in seed
- Barcelona stun Chelsea with early blitz to win Women’s Champions League
- McLaren drivers hail Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s energising rivalry
- Vanessa Bryant: Kobe ‘laughing in heaven’ as he is enshrined in Hall of Fame
- Tyson Fury announces he will fight Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia
- Egan Bernal takes overall Giro d’Italia lead after winning ninth stage
- Big Short author Michael Lewis on the inside story of America’s failed Covid response
- Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’
- Aids and Act Up: Sarah Schulman puts women and people of color back at the heart of the story
- Saturday Night Live: Keegan-Michael Key’s Michael Jordan a dunk, rest of show… dank
- Hear me out: why Dirty Grandpa isn’t a bad movie
- Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’
- Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips review – celebration of a free spirit
- From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen
- Will Republicans back a commission to investigate the Capitol breach?
- ‘A slap in the face’: California Uber and Lyft drivers criticize pay cuts under Prop 22
- ‘We got him’: police finally find tiger that came to a Texas suburb
- Sally Buzbee, first woman to edit Washington Post, to focus on diversity
- Brooklyn Center approves policing changes after Daunte Wright shooting
- ‘No safe place’: Associated Press reporter describes Gaza office attack
- Mexico faces up to uneasy anniversary of Chinese massacre
- Could ‘engineered’ coral save the planet’s reefs from destruction?
- ‘On bad days, we don’t eat’: Hunger grows for thousands displaced by conflict in Chad
- Bitcoin lowest since February as Musk tweets trigger whipsaw trading – business live
- Afghanistan: fighting resumes in south after three-day ceasefire for Eid
- A raid, a march, a court case: how Israel spiralled into a deadly conflict
- ‘Revolution dwells in the heart’: Myanmar’s poets cut down by the military
- Half of emissions cuts will come from future tech, says John Kerry
- Gaza suffers deadliest airstrikes yet as Israel targets Hamas leader – video report
- Dogs and humans live among the gravestones in Pasay cemetery, Philippines – a photo essay
- Swimming among coral and Chilean elections – the weekend in pictures
| Gaza rocked by fresh airstrikes after Netanyahu vows to keep attacks at ‘full force’ Posted: 16 May 2021 07:05 PM PDT Strikes early on Monday appeared broader and more intense than Sunday's, in which 42 Palestinians died in the deadliest single attack yet Israeli warplanes have launched what appeared to be the heaviest airstrikes yet on Gaza City, hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled the bombardment would rage on. The series of attacks early on Monday rocked the city from north to south for 10 minutes and was more intense, covered a broader area and lasted longer than the raids 24 hours earlier in which 42 Palestinians were killed – the deadliest single attack in the latest violence between Israel and the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza. Continue reading... |
| Fauci: ‘Undeniable effects of racism’ have worsened Covid for US minorities Posted: 16 May 2021 09:48 AM PDT
Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday "the undeniable effects of racism" have worsened the coronavirus pandemic for Black, Hispanic and Native Americans. Related: Republican Covid lies follow foreign strongmen's lead – and are deadly for it | Robert Reich Continue reading... |
| Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as ‘GPS’ guidance system, study says Posted: 16 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT
Scientists in Florida have concluded that sharks possess an internal navigation system similar to GPS that allows them to use Earth's magnetic forces to travel long distances with accuracy. Related: Below the surface: reports of rising shark attacks don't tell the whole story Continue reading... |
| Matthew McConaughey ‘making calls’ about run for Texas governor – report Posted: 16 May 2021 11:47 AM PDT Dallas Buyer's Club star has been 'quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles', according to Politico The actor Matthew McConaughey appears to be seriously considering entering politics, according to a report on Sunday which said the Dallas Buyer's Club star has been "quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles" as he mulls a run for governor. Related: Caitlyn Jenner's bid to be California's next Governator is falling flat Continue reading... |
| ‘Naughty favours’: Matt Gaetz seeks to ridicule allegations he paid underaged girl for sex Posted: 16 May 2021 07:07 AM PDT Embattled Republican congressman compares allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor to congressional earmarks The embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has compared allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor to earmarks, a congressional process by which spending measures beneficial to representatives' districts are attached to legislation. "I'm being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors," he said, speaking to Republicans in Ohio on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Tiny traces of DNA found in cave dust may unlock secret life of Neanderthals Posted: 16 May 2021 01:45 AM PDT Advanced technique used to recover genetic material may help solve the mystery of early man Scientists have pinpointed major changes in Europe's Neanderthal populations – from traces of blood and excrement they left behind in a Spanish cave 100,000 years ago. The discovery is the first important demonstration of a powerful new technique that allows researchers to study DNA recovered from cave sediments. No fossils or stone tools are needed for such studies. Instead, minuscule traces of genetic material that have accumulated in the dust of a cavern floor are employed to reveal ancient secrets. Continue reading... |
| Suez Canal starts work to extend double lane after Ever Given grounding Posted: 16 May 2021 06:07 PM PDT Grounding of the container ship in a southern section of the canal in March delayed the passage of hundreds of vessels through the waterway Egypt has started dredging work to extend a second lane that allows for two-way traffic in a southern section of the canal near to where a giant container ship got stuck for six days in March. The state-owned Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced last week that it was planning to extend a second canal lane that opened in 2015 by 10km to make it 82km long, and would widen and deepen a single lane stretch at the southern end of the canal. Continue reading... |
| Arizona Republican calls Trump ‘deleted database’ statement ‘unhinged’ Posted: 16 May 2021 04:41 AM PDT
The Republican who leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run. Related: Liz Cheney regrets vote for Trump but won't say she'll leave Republican party Continue reading... |
| Big pharma executives mocked ‘pillbillies’ in emails, West Virginia opioid trial hears Posted: 15 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT
Executives at one of the US's largest drug distributors circulated rhymes and emails mocking "hillbillies" who became addicted to opioid painkillers even as the company poured hundreds of millions of pills into parts of Appalachia at the heart of America's opioid epidemic. Related: 'Ground zero of the opioid epidemic': West Virginia puts drug giants on trial Continue reading... |
| ‘Everybody is angry’: Modi under fire over India’s Covid second wave Posted: 16 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT From an approval rating of 80% earlier in the year, now tough questions are being asked of PM's leadership The missing persons complaint was filed at Parliament Street police station in Delhi as a matter of some urgency: it concerned the "disappearance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and 10 of his cabinet ministers during the pandemic. Nagesh Kariyappa, the general secretary of the Indian national students' union who filed the report to police on Friday, said he wanted the absence of political leadership when India had been brought to its knees by Covid-19 to be a matter of official record. "Where are the so-called leaders who had promised to make India a global leader but have instead made people suffer like this?" said Kariyappa. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 May 2021 12:39 AM PDT Sturgeon urges Scotland to 'continue to be cautious and very careful' as measures ease; Taiwan posts 333 new cases in worsening outbreak
As Thailand struggles to deal with its worst wave of coronavirus infections, Athit Perawongmetha reports for Reuters from Bangkok that taff in the intensive care unit of the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital are fearful of what may be to come. The Southeast Asian country had managed to contain Covid-19 cases for much of the pandemic, but a third wave that began in April and includes more contagious variants has proven harder to control, putting a strain on medical facilities.
UK business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been on media round duties this morning, and in one of his appearances on LBC radio, he has urged people not to drink alcohol too heavily on the first day of being permitted to eat and drink inside pubs again. Asked how people could exercise caution at the pub, the minister said: "It is fairly clear to me in terms of common sense that what you can do is socialise in a normal way but obviously we advise ordinarily against excessive drinking, endangering people, getting too many large groups together if that can be avoided.  |
| Biden aides defend controversial Covid mask guidance change Posted: 16 May 2021 08:47 AM PDT
This week's surprise reversal of mask-wearing guidance for those vaccinated against Covid-19 was a "foundational first step" towards returning the US to normal, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insisted on Sunday, as the agency continued to draw criticism for the sudden and confusing advice. Related: Relief, reluctance and confusion: New Yorkers react to mask-free guidance Continue reading... |
| ‘Their stories need to be told’: the true story behind The Underground Railroad Posted: 16 May 2021 11:16 PM PDT Barry Jenkins' acclaimed 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel shines much-needed light on a history that many still don't know Don't be fooled by the train carriage. The Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum might be housed inside one but its content has nothing to do with railways. Its true genesis lies across the street in the Pamlico River, once used as an avenue of escape by enslaved African Americans seeking freedom. Leesa Jones, cofounder and executive director of the museum, says: "We realised through reading copious documents and old slave ads from Washington newspapers that would say things like, 'My slave has escaped, they're going to try to get to Washington to board a ship to get to their freedom', that we wanted to tell an accurate story of how freedom seekers left from the Washington waterfront." Continue reading... |
| Free solo … with a permit: will Yosemite’s new rules put a damper on climbing culture? Posted: 16 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT The national park is instituting a permitting system for overnight rock climbers. Many see it as inevitable as the sport gets more popular For years, rock climbers Graham Ottley and Keith Bouma-Gregson dreamed of scaling the 2,800ft (853 meters) pillar of granite known as the Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite national park. In early May the pair finally got their chance, making a climb that required spending two windy nights camped on tiny ledges with harnesses holding them to the rocks. But Ottley and Bouma-Gregson realize that soon it may not be as easy to enjoy Yosemite's anything-goes climbing culture. Continue reading... |
| Human waste spills on to Gaza’s blacked-out streets as crisis looms Posted: 16 May 2021 09:16 AM PDT Electricity lines down, farm deliveries blocked and thousands are without proper supply of drinking water A week of relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip has destroyed power lines, smashed water pipes beneath roads and left human waste spilling out of the ground. With 188 Palestinians having been killed, and families trapped under rubble, fears are mounting of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the enclave, where 2 million people live under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade in place for 14 years. Continue reading... |
| Divorces of the rich and famous: a 1% solution or the start of a trend? Posted: 16 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT With such high-profile splits at Bill and Melinda Gates and Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos, some say the wealthy play by their own rules but celebrities often set standards the rest of us follow A cascade of recent high-profile divorces of the very rich and famous has presented new questions for the divorce industry – and offered a voyeuristic thrill-ride for millions of the less well-known. Some of the divorces of recent years have apparently been amicable or pseudo-amicable, such as the tech billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates, and the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and Mackenzie Scott. The same is largely true of the split between the reality star billionaire Kim Kardashian and singer Kanye West. But other splits have been decidedly less so, such as the long-running epic divorce and now custody battle between two of Hollywood's A-listers, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Continue reading... |
| Yanomami beset by violent land-grabs, hunger and disease in Brazil Posted: 16 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Indigenous people in the grip of a humanitarian crisis as Bolsonaro gives encouragement to wildcat miners with designs on their rainforest territory A photograph of an emaciated Yanomami girl, huddled listlessly in a hammock beside an empty cooking pot over an unlit fire. Shaky footage of indigenous people screaming as they flee in panic to a soundtrack of gunfire. Shocking images shared on Brazilian social media this week have cast a spotlight on a spiral of violence, malnutrition and disease that threatens fresh devastation for the Yanomami people and their ancestral territory in the Amazon state of Roraima. Continue reading... |
| First-hand stories shed new light on Nazi death marches Posted: 16 May 2021 05:50 AM PDT Wiener Holocaust Library in London has gathered testimonies and photographs of forced evacuations at end of second world war First-hand accounts from survivors of Nazi death marches, which formed a last ruthless chapter of the genocide, are to go on display with testimonies translated into English for the first time. During the death marches, tens of thousands of people died on roadsides of exhaustion, shot for failing to keep up, or murdered in seemingly random massacres as the Nazis moved people from concentration camps before liberation by the allies, leaving a trail of blood across Europe. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT A number of parties, from Trump to Netanyahu to Hamas, fanned the flames. The question now is: who can put them out? Is this Iran's revenge? There are good reasons to suspect the sudden, extraordinarily violent reigniting of the dormant Israel-Palestine conflict was plotted and triggered in Tehran. Not so fast, say Benjamin Netanyahu's critics. Repressive, racist policies pursued by Israel's prime minister, egged on until recently by unscrupulous Donald Trump, are the main cause of the explosion, they insist. Continue reading... |
| Ignore the hype of Republicans threatening to ‘break away’ over Trump | Cas Mudde Posted: 16 May 2021 03:20 AM PDT Anti-Trump Republicans get lots of media attention. That doesn't mean they are relevant within the Republican party "Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split" from the Republican party, the New York Times declared on Tuesday. The next day the Washington Post upped the ante, headlining that the 100 Republicans were vowing "civil war"; the columnist Jennifer Rubin proclaimed the beginning of "the stampede away from the GOP". Sounds exciting, but what has really happened? Continue reading... |
| Why the landmark Bretton Woods deal is as relevant today as in 1944 | Larry Elliott Posted: 16 May 2021 03:42 AM PDT Countries came together early and decisively to fix a broken global system. The same ambition is needed today War was still raging in Europe and Asia when delegates from 44 countries met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in July 1944. Three weeks of negotiations produced two new global institutions, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and a different economic mindset. Related: The Guardian view on the IMF and World Bank: back a global Green New Deal | Editorial Continue reading... |
| What do animals feel? Humans must follow the evidence to find out | Jonathan Birch Posted: 16 May 2021 05:13 AM PDT Government proposals to recognise vertebrates as sentient beings are welcome, but this should be just the start Look a dog in the eye and a conscious being looks back. A being that feels hunger, thirst, warmth, cold, fear, comfort, pleasure, pain, joy. No one can seriously doubt this. The same is true of any mammal. You cannot watch rats playing hide and seek and doubt that they have feelings – that they are sentient creatures. But as animals become more distant from us in evolutionary terms, some doubt begins to creep in. Consider a bee sneaking past the guards of a rival colony to steal honey. Or the Brazilian ants that, in order to hide their nest at the end of each day, seal off the entrance from the outside. Left out in the cold at night, these ants will never see the morning, but their sacrifice increases the chance that their sisters will. The urge to attribute feelings to insects can be surprisingly strong. Continue reading... |
| Why are Palestinians protesting? Because we want to live | Mariam Barghouti Posted: 16 May 2021 07:26 AM PDT Just as the Black Lives Matter protests were not only about one killing, we are facing a whole regime of oppression I started going to demonstrations when I was 17. At first, I went to protests against Israel's military occupation. Then we also began to protest against the authoritarianism of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and the sickening rivalry between Palestinian political factions. For Palestinians, protest has become a way of life – a way to be steadfast, to persevere. Over the past decade, much of this burden of protest has been borne by individual Palestinian families facing expulsion or violence at the hands of soldiers and settlers. The threat of evictions or demolitions will spark a local protest, in the hope of preventing this or that particular outrage. But right now the attention of the world is on us not as individuals, but as a collective, as Palestinians. It is not only about one village or one family or "only those in the West Bank" or "only those in Jerusalem". Continue reading... |
| FA Cup final and Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend Posted: 17 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Foxes' Wembley success is based on strong management, Alli's revival and Harrison's future Of all of the post-match scenes, as the emotion ran wild through the Leicester ranks, was anything more touching than when the club's chairman, Top Srivaddhanaprabha, was led onto the Wembley pitch by Kasper Schmeichel to be presented with the FA Cup? Bouncing up and down with the players, Srivaddhanaprabha could savour a dream-come-true moment and the poignancy was obvious, given the tragic death in 2018 of his father andthen Leicester owner, Vichai. What shone through was the connection that Srivaddhanaprabha has with the manager, Brendan Rodgers, and the squad. It was easy to envy for supporters of plenty of other clubs, and a powerful force that played its part in Leicester's victory. The Top down togetherness helps make Leicester a destination club. Thefinal was historic for Leicester but the sense that the journey will continue is inexorable. David Hytner Continue reading... |
| Stephen Curry takes NBA scoring title as Warriors clinch play-in seed Posted: 16 May 2021 03:48 PM PDT
Stephen Curry became the oldest scoring champion since Michael Jordan in 1998, finishing with 46 points as the Golden State Warriors held off the Memphis Grizzlies 113-101 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that determined the play-in tournament's eighth and ninth spots. The Warriors wrapped up the No 8 seed and will play on Wednesday, while Memphis finish at No 9 and will host the Spurs on Wednesday. Golden State's opponent is dependent on Sunday night's results for the Lakers and Portland. If they face the Lakers it would set up a delicious face off between Curry and LeBron James. The winner of the game involving the Warriors and Lakers or Portland will be the No 7 seed in the West playoffs; the loser of that game will play the Memphis-San Antonio winner on Friday to be the No 8 West seed. Continue reading... |
| Barcelona stun Chelsea with early blitz to win Women’s Champions League Posted: 16 May 2021 01:52 PM PDT Barcelona shrugged off their Champions League final demons to obliterate Chelsea and deliver a crushing blow to the prestige of the Women's Super League. A first-minute own goal and another three inside 36 minutes, from the midfielders Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí and the Norwegian forward Caroline Graham Hansen, quietened the usually vocal Emma Hayes, who stood alone in her technical area, unable to mastermind a way past an exhilarating team that has played 26 and won 26 on the way to a La Liga title with five games to play, scoring 129 goals and conceding only five in the process. Continue reading... |
| McLaren drivers hail Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s energising rivalry Posted: 16 May 2021 11:54 AM PDT
Hamilton in the Mercedes and Verstappen in the Red Bull have enjoyed close competition in all four races this season. The British world champion has had the edge, with three wins to Verstappen's one, and holds a slender 14-point lead in the world championship. Hamilton is 36 years old and has seven world championships, while Verstappen is 23 and this is the first time he has been in contention for the title. Their battles on track have been compelling. Continue reading... |
| Vanessa Bryant: Kobe ‘laughing in heaven’ as he is enshrined in Hall of Fame Posted: 16 May 2021 05:24 AM PDT
Vanessa Bryant took Michael Jordan's hand and walked down from the stage, a familiar chant breaking out throughout the arena as she made her way back to her seat. "Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!" the crowd shouted. Continue reading... |
| Tyson Fury announces he will fight Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia Posted: 16 May 2021 11:47 AM PDT
Tyson Fury has announced his all-British heavyweight showdown with Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on 14 August. In a video posted to Twitter, the 32-year-old said: "I have got some massive news. I have just got off the phone with Prince Khalid of Saudi Arabia and he told me this fight is 100 per cent on, August 14." Continue reading... |
| Egan Bernal takes overall Giro d’Italia lead after winning ninth stage Posted: 16 May 2021 09:14 AM PDT
Egan Bernal stormed to victory on the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia to take the leader's pink jersey. The Colombian rider ended the stage, Castel di Sangro to Campo Felice, seven seconds clear of Giulio Ciccone and Aleksandr Vlasov following a fine finish to the 158km route. Continue reading... |
| Big Short author Michael Lewis on the inside story of America’s failed Covid response Posted: 16 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT The author and journalist Michael Lewis discusses reporting on a group of individuals who tried to alert the US government to the dangers of its inaction as coronavirus cases began to rise at an alarming rate The author and journalist Michael Lewis has made a career of writing about people who see things coming that most of us don't. His book The Big Short, which was turned into an Oscar-winning film, followed a group of investors who predicted the collapse of the American housing market in 2007. He tells Rachel Humphreys about the group of individuals who have become the focus of his new book, The Premonition. As Covid case numbers began to rise at an alarming rate across America, Lewis discovered a group of medics and scientists who were trying to alert the US government to the dangers of its inaction. Continue reading... |
| Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’ Posted: 09 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT In his new book, the author of The Big Short has turned his attention to Covid and the people who could have prevented it sweeping the US – had they been allowed to An event as large and devastating as the Covid pandemic was always going to attract a rush of authors seeking to uncover the story behind the decade's biggest story. Leading the pack – not for the first time – is Michael Lewis, the man with an unerring knack for finding narrative gold in the most well-mined territories. He did it with notable success in the financial crisis of 2008, by smartly identifying the people who made money from the banking collapse, those who bet against the collateralised debt obligation bubble. That was The Big Short, a bestseller that was turned, like a previous book, Moneyball, into a successful Oscar-nominated Hollywood film. Continue reading... |
| Aids and Act Up: Sarah Schulman puts women and people of color back at the heart of the story Posted: 15 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The activist's new book, Let the Record Show, is a rejoinder to works on the HIV epidemic by and about white men Sarah Schulman is ready to have her say about the history of US Aids activism. Continue reading... |
| Saturday Night Live: Keegan-Michael Key’s Michael Jordan a dunk, rest of show… dank Posted: 16 May 2021 04:12 AM PDT SNL is struggling, limping into season's end, unable to find inspiration after the Elon Musk embarrassment Saturday Night Live opens with a special message from Dr Anthony Fauci, played by Kate McKinnon. "The patron saint of Purell" attempts to answer the public's questions about the loosening of masking protocols: questions such as "What does that mean? "What the hell are you talking about?" "Is this a trap?" Related: Saturday Night Live: Elon Musk stumbles, cast bumbles in brutally awkward episode Continue reading... |
| Hear me out: why Dirty Grandpa isn’t a bad movie Posted: 16 May 2021 11:06 PM PDT Continuing our series of writers defending films loathed by most is a plea to reconsider Robert De Niro's smutty comedy Dirty Grandpa has an 11% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated for five Golden Raspberries and has an almost immaculate attendance record on critics' worst of the year lists. Those who reviewed it were at pains to point out how filthy they found the experience. Mark Kermode needed a shower, Mike Ryan wanted to burn the prints and Glenn McDonald likened it to torture porn. For some, its chart-topping god-awfulness wasn't just confined to 2016. Deadline's Pete Hammond called it not just the worst movie Robert De Niro had been in but "the worst movie anyone has ever been in". Continue reading... |
| Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’ Posted: 16 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The author of the hit YA fantasy talks about Netflix stardom, making her novels more diverse and why she had to give up a close relationship with her fans When Leigh Bardugo first came face to face with her characters, she wept. In a video that was uploaded everywhere from YouTube to TikTok, the author stepped on to the Budapest set of Netflix's Shadow and Bone and embraced her heroine, Alina – or rather, the actor Jessie Mei Li in costume. "You guys look amazing," Bardugo repeats in the video, between hugs and tears. "You look so incredible. It's actually eerie." "Adaptation is scary," Bardugo says now. "I don't begrudge any author the right to say that they don't want to do it, because we've all seen it go wrong. It would be heartbreaking to be locked out of the house that you built. But I got lucky, because the people I collaborated with cared deeply – not just about the material, but the people who love it." Continue reading... |
| Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips review – celebration of a free spirit Posted: 16 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The author and punk musician draws parallels between her own life and that of the genre-blurring sister of Beyoncé in this hymn to black individualism The cover image of Why Solange Matters, the first book in Faber's new Music Matters series charting the story of groundbreaking musicians (Marianne Faithfull and Karen Carpenter to follow), shows the singer washed in red light, her arms loose by her side, gazing towards the audience, or at someone she recognises. In that moment she is bordering on heavenly. Though the photograph was taken five years ago, around the time of Solange's A Seat at the Table album, for me it conjures a lyric from Down With the Clique on her 2019 LP When I Get Home: We were rollin' up the street  |
| From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen Posted: 16 May 2021 08:30 AM PDT Grab your popcorn as we pick the best post-lockdown movie offerings – featuring a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone's youthful Cruella Frances McDormand delivers the performance of her career in this triple Oscar-winner from Chloé Zhao: best film, director and actress. It is a docu-fiction about the American phenomenon of "nomads": sixtysomething retirees pauperised by the 2008 crash and roaming the country in camper vans looking for seasonal work. McDormand plays a fictional "nomad", and Zhao stages wonderfully conceived encounters with the real thing. Moving, insightful, superb.  |
| Will Republicans back a commission to investigate the Capitol breach? Posted: 15 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Lawmakers faced with choice between embarrassing Trump and ignoring insurrection House Democrats are poised to adopt legislation to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, in a move that will force Republicans to either embrace an inquiry that could embarrass Donald Trump – or turn a blind eye to a deadly insurrection. Related: Liz Cheney: McCarthy should testify about Trump's views on Capitol attack Continue reading... |
| ‘A slap in the face’: California Uber and Lyft drivers criticize pay cuts under Prop 22 Posted: 16 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Drivers cite reduction in mileage rates from LAX, a major source of rides, and say company stimulus packages are 'traps' Uber and Lyft drivers in California are up in arms about the effects of Proposition 22 since the controversial state law went into effect in January, after an aggressive and expensive lobbying campaign in favor of the ballot amendment. Among the most recent changes, drivers say, is a reduction in mileage rates from Los Angeles international airport, an important source of income and rides for many drivers. Continue reading... |
| ‘We got him’: police finally find tiger that came to a Texas suburb Posted: 16 May 2021 04:57 AM PDT
A tiger that frightened residents when it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood has been found after a nearly week-long search and appears to be unharmed, police said on Saturday evening. In a short video tweeted by Houston police, Commander Ron Borza can be seen sitting next to the tiger, petting the animal and saying it has been a long week searching for it. Continue reading... |
| Sally Buzbee, first woman to edit Washington Post, to focus on diversity Posted: 16 May 2021 01:06 PM PDT
The incoming executive editor of the Washington Post has called for a renewed focus on diversity in the media as she prepares to become the first woman in the prestigious role. Related: Marty Baron, 'the ultimate old-school editor', retires from Washington Post Continue reading... |
| Brooklyn Center approves policing changes after Daunte Wright shooting Posted: 16 May 2021 09:21 AM PDT New divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and to respond to mental health crisis Elected officials in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer shot dead Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April have approved a plan to dramatically change policing practices. Related: Teargas, flash-bangs: the devastating toll of police tactics on Minnesota children Continue reading... |
| ‘No safe place’: Associated Press reporter describes Gaza office attack Posted: 16 May 2021 04:46 AM PDT A rush for escape as Israeli forces bombed the building that housed the US news agency and Al Jazeera On Saturday, Israeli forces bombed the office which houses Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza, alleging that Hamas military intelligence was operating inside the building. Twelve AP staffers and freelancers were working and resting in the bureau when the Israeli military telephoned a warning, giving occupants of the building one hour to evacuate. The AP journalist Fares Akram told how he escaped the building. Continue reading... |
| Mexico faces up to uneasy anniversary of Chinese massacre Posted: 16 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will mark the killings of 303 Chinese people during the revolution that the city of Torreón has tried to forget The first to die were Chinese agricultural workers, who were killed in the orchards and gardens surrounding the Mexican city of Torreón by advancing revolutionary forces in the early hours of 13 May 1911. After skirmishes at the outskirts of the city, the outnumbered federal garrison abandoned their positions and slipped away under the cover of darkness. Continue reading... |
| Could ‘engineered’ coral save the planet’s reefs from destruction? Posted: 16 May 2021 12:15 AM PDT London Zoo's latest exhibition shows how scientists hope to halt the devastation caused by overheated oceans This weekend, conservationists will put the final touches to a giant artificial reef they are assembling at London zoo. Samples of the planet's most spectacular corals – vivid green branching coral, yellow scroll, blue ridge and many more species – will be added to the giant tank along with fish that thrive in their presence: blue tang, clownfish and many others. The scene will then be set for Monday's opening of the zoo's new gallery, Tiny Giants, which is dedicated to the minuscule invertebrate creatures that sustain life across the planet. The coral reef tank and its seven-metre wide window will form the core of the exhibition. Continue reading... |
| ‘On bad days, we don’t eat’: Hunger grows for thousands displaced by conflict in Chad Posted: 16 May 2021 11:15 PM PDT As war forces more to flee, humanitarian organisations facing funding shortfalls and increasing demand are unable to keep pace The number of people having to leave their homes in the Lake Chad region of central Africa has more than doubled over the past year with agencies warning they are struggling to feed people. The fighting, which last month claimed the life of the president of Chad, Idriss Déby, has displaced more than 400,000 Chadians, according to the International Organization for Migration, a rise from 169,000 at the start of 2020. More than 65,000 people were displaced in the first quarter of this year. Continue reading... |
| Bitcoin lowest since February as Musk tweets trigger whipsaw trading – business live Posted: 17 May 2021 12:50 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Chris Weston of brokerage Pepperstone reports that some bitcoin traders were forced to liquidate their positions due to this latest volatility triggered by Elon Musk (because they couldn't meet margin calls on either long, or short, bets). Weston explains: Elon Musk, it seems, has been taking on all comers on Twitter over the weekend and caused some chunky gyrations across the coins – our weekend trading has kicked up, and we're looking at some serious liquidations through the exchanges, where the last 24 hours we've seen over to $1.5bn liquidated. "Why would I want to buy bitcoin right now - even if I'm bullish - until the liquidation is over and you see some consolidation in price?"
This chart shows how Elon Musk's clarification this morning sent bitcoin rallying back from three-month lows.... #Bitcoin bounces 7% after Elon Musk confirms that Tesla hasn't yet sold any of their Bitcoin holdings. pic.twitter.com/Zj9v5zYaEV Musk has boosted crypto markets with his enthusiasm for the asset class, but has lately roiled trade by appearing to cool on bitcoin in favour of its one-time parody, dogecoin. The gyrations are beginning to spook even steeled traders. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan: fighting resumes in south after three-day ceasefire for Eid Posted: 15 May 2021 11:48 PM PDT Taliban and government forces clash in Helmand, the scene of intense battles following US troop withdrawal Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces has resumed in the southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday. There were clashes on Sunday on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, which has seen intense fighting since the United States began its final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on 1 May, an Afghan military spokesperson and a local official said. Continue reading... |
| A raid, a march, a court case: how Israel spiralled into a deadly conflict Posted: 16 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT After a series of events combined to reignite clashes, a wave of communal violence broke out that could take years to heal Abd al-Fattah Iskafi, 71, has lived in his house on a tree-lined street near the historic Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City since he was six years old. But he has spent decades locked in a court battle with hardline Jewish settlers over whether he has the right to stay. Families in his Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood who also face losing their homes have been "destroyed psychologically" by the long legal fight, he says. But as lawyers prepared this month for a final showdown in Israel's highest court, fallout from the case spread far beyond their neighbourhood. Continue reading... |
| ‘Revolution dwells in the heart’: Myanmar’s poets cut down by the military Posted: 16 May 2021 07:24 PM PDT Khet Thi, who captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public, was the third poet to be killed by the military since the coup His words captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public in the face of military brutality: "They shoot in the head, but they don't know revolution dwells in the heart." The poet Khet Thi was taken from his home in Shwebo, in the Sagaing region, last Saturday. The next day, his wife collected his body from a hospital. His organs had been removed, she told BBC Burmese. Continue reading... |
| Half of emissions cuts will come from future tech, says John Kerry Posted: 16 May 2021 04:01 AM PDT US climate envoy says people will not have to give up quality of life to achieve some of net zero goals The US climate envoy, John Kerry, has said 50% of the carbon reductions needed to get to net zero will come from technologies that have not yet been invented, and said people "don't have to give up a quality of life" in order to cut emissions. He said Americans would "not necessarily" have to eat less meat, because of research being done into the way cattle are herded and fed in order to reduce methane emissions. Continue reading... |
| Gaza suffers deadliest airstrikes yet as Israel targets Hamas leader – video report Posted: 16 May 2021 10:53 AM PDT At least 33 Palestinians have been killed and 50 injured in the deadliest airstrikes since the start of fighting between Israel and Hamas six days ago. Israel targeted the home of the Hamas leader Yehya al-Sinwar over the weekend and destroyed the building that housed the offices of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press. At least 181 people in Gaza and 10 in Israel have been killed so far
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| Dogs and humans live among the gravestones in Pasay cemetery, Philippines – a photo essay Posted: 16 May 2021 11:30 PM PDT In a project for the Lady Freethinker NGO, photographer Aaron 'Bertie' Gekoski has teamed up with Ashley Fruno, founder of Pasay Pups, to document the impact of poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic on people and pets living in public cemeteries in Pasay, the Philippines In the photograph, a skeletal white dog stands on top of a tomb, his spiky vertebrae sharply visible through his ghostly fur. His jutting ribs and pelvic bones match the monotone of grey cemetery aisles and a prominent white cross in the background. Continue reading... |
| Swimming among coral and Chilean elections – the weekend in pictures Posted: 16 May 2021 06:56 AM PDT |
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