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Cattail Creek Thursday Night “This Shits Crazy” In their last phone call before bed, Janicke Glynn tries to reassure her husband. He is away visiting a sick relative, and a Weather Channel forecast of Hurricane Helene’s imminent collision with the North Carolina mountains is leaving him uneasy. The storm, more than 400 miles wide, is expected to strike their small community the next morning, Sept. 27. Janicke encourages him to focus on his family up in Boston. That is more important. She is fine. It’s been raining a lot, but the house is fine. Everything is fine. He’ll fly home…
Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsMARCO ANTONIO PEREZ/AFP via Getty Images)Mexicans are mourning the death of two young Navy cadets who were killed on Saturday when the training tall ship ARM Cuauhtémoc crashed into Brooklyn Bridge.América Sánchez, 20, and 23-year-old Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos were among the 277 crew members on board the Mexican Navy’s sailing ship when its three masts snapped as they hit the bridge.According to Mexican media, Sánchez was one of the cadets who was standing on top of the masts at the time of the accident. Twenty-two other crew members were injured, three of them critically, the Mexican Navy…
Nahil Sadaqa loves soccer — and one of his favourite teams helps him connect with his Palestinian identity.This club plays in Palestinian colours, its fans wave Palestinian flags, its sponsors include the Bank of Palestine and its jerseys have images of the keffiyeh and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.But the team isn’t based in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli-occupied West Bank or even the Middle East. This team — Club Deportivo Palestino — plays its games more than 13,000 kilometres away in Chile.”The Palestinian people who like playing soccer or [are] soccer fans, they know about the team,” Sadaqa told CBC News from Halifax. “The…
The Supreme Court on Thursday was divided over whether a federal judge has the power to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship while the case moves through the lower courts. The Trump administration told the justices it should be able to at least partly implement the order. Although several justices in recent years have expressed skepticism about so-called nationwide injunctions, which bar the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the country, during more than two hours of oral arguments, it was not clear whether a majority of the justices were ready to bar such…
Home Daily News Law grad settles First Amendment suit against… First Amendment Law grad settles First Amendment suit against town that objected to her repurposed skeleton displays By Debra Cassens Weiss May 1, 2025, 11:58 am CDT A Tennessee woman who repurposed her outdoor Halloween skeletons for other holidays has settled her First Amendment lawsuit against a Memphis, Tennessee, suburb that gave her a citation for refusing to take them down. The city of Germantown, Tennessee, will pay Alexis Luttrell $24,999 to settle her suit, according to an April 29 press release by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression,…
Nick Alvis makes a case for returning to Dubai Marina dining…Thanks to Dubai’s ever-increasing traffic, there are a handful of areas I largely chose to avoid during peak hours – Dubai Marina being one of them. So, I’m surprised to find myself heading – albeit glacially – for a 7pm dinner reservation at Le Royal Meridien one mid-week evening.But this is no ordinary dinner reservation. At the helm of newly opened The Beam is Nick Alvis, one of a collective of independent chefs who paved the way for Dubai’s homegrown restaurant scene to flourish in the late twenty-teens. After departing…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights “Maximum Pressure”: The State Department conducted a monthslong campaign to push a small African country to help Musk’s satellite internet company, records and interviews show. “Ram This Through”: Working closely with executives at Starlink, the U.S. government has made a global push to help expand Musk’s business empire in the developing world. “Crony Capitalism”: Diplomats said the events were an alarming departure from standard practice — because of both the tactics used and the person who…
Former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, a statement from his office said on Sunday. Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after he saw a doctor last week for urinary symptoms. The cancer is a more aggressive form of the disease, characterised by a Gleason score of 9 out of 10. This means his illness is classified as “high-grade” and that the cancer cells could spread quickly, according to Cancer Research UK. Biden and his family are said to be reviewing treatment options. The former president’s office added that the…
The pro-European Union candidate in Romania’s critical presidential run-off has won the closely watched race against a hard-right nationalist, nearly complete electoral data shows, in a tense election rerun that many viewed as a geopolitical choice between East and West.The race pitted front-runner George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, against Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest.It was held months after the cancellation of the previous election plunged Romania into its worst political crisis in decades.After 10.5 million of 11.6 million votes had been counted, Dan was ahead with 54.32 per…
This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Michael Mongan currently serves as the California Solicitor General. He clerked for Justice David Souter from 2007 to 2008. In the days since Justice Souter passed away, I’ve struggled to assemble words that convey the depth of my feelings about him. Some portion of that difficulty might be attributed to the private and humble manner in which he lived his life. He generally avoided making public remarks outside the courtroom (with a few notable exceptions, like his outstanding speech at Harvard in 2010). He spent much…