“This has the whiff of Munich” ran the headline in the London Sunday Times, quoting Ben Wallace, the bombastic defense secretary in Boris Johnson’s government. But of course he said that. As the Ukraine crisis escalated, much has been unsure or hard to foresee: Was Vladimir Putin bluffing, would he really invade, could Ukraine defend…Continue Reading
DETROIT — One word caught the ear of a young priest a few years ago when his father shared a video of his 1990 baptism at a suburban Detroit church.“Wait,” the Rev. Matthew Hood recalled thinking. “Something doesn’t seem right here.”Indeed, an error by a deacon who said “We baptize” instead of “I baptize” spoiled…Continue Reading
A wedding reception Saturday night near Orlando, Florida, erupted into chaos when police responding to a disturbance call said an altercation led one officer to fatally shoot a guest.The shooting at the Winter Park Library and Events Center in Winter Park remained under review Monday by state investigators, while the family of the man who…Continue Reading
Justin Bieber’s Justice World Tour will have to hold for a little while. The singer was set to take the stage in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, but the concert has now been delayed due to an outbreak of Covid-19 among the pop star’s team. Bieber himself has tested positive for Covid-19, reps for the…Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Truth Social, launched late on Sunday in Apple’s App Store, potentially marking the former president’s return to social media after he was banned from several platforms last year.The app was available shortly before midnight ET and was the top free app available on the App Store early Monday. Truth…Continue Reading
(Justin Tang /The Canadian Press via AP)There were no winners. Nobody walking past the bolted gates of Parliament, where MPs should have been debating the government’s public order emergency, could consider this a victoryRead Full Article »Show comments Hide CommentsContinue Reading
(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)None of the three major parties shows any indication of understanding what’s happening around them, much less adapting accordinglyRead Full Article »Continue Reading
(Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)The autocrat has been trying for decades to end what he sees as a prolonged period of Russian humiliation.Read Full Article »Continue Reading
(Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Foto vía AP)Fifty years after Nixon’s trip to Beijing, China grows stronger than the Soviet Union ever was.Read Full Article »Continue Reading
Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds on Sunday and Monday killing at least two more people, disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts across a region still recovering from last week’s hurricane-force winds.Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in…Continue Reading
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