Six months ago I moved from the city to the outer suburbs and I’m yet to meet either of my next-door neighbours. On the day we arrived, a couple across the street said hello but it turns out they are the exception to the rule. People on my street tend to keep to themselves.My last…Continue Reading
Ten people were shot and wounded at a shopping mall just outside Columbia, South Carolina’s capital, police said on Saturday afternoon.The wounded ranged in age from 15 to 73, and first responders brought eight to the hospital, said the Columbia police chief, William Holbrook. Two of those brought to the hospital were in critical condition,…Continue Reading
Texas governor Greg Abbott has made an about-face on his policy of tighter inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico, a week after he implemented the policy which led to Mexican truckers blockading border bridges in protest and holding up food supplies to the US as a result.He reversed course on Friday night after a…Continue Reading
For Grantly Dick-Read, the Victorian originator of the UK’s natural childbirth movement, birthing women in Britain should emulate those, as he phrased it, “of more primitive types”. In Natural Childbirth, 1933, he pictured one of these individuals disappearing into a “thicket” – it sounded plausible enough from Woking – to await her pain-free labour.“Natural birth…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — After her Army son died in an armored vehicle rollover in Syria in May, Sheila Murphy says, she got no call or letter from President Donald Trump, even as she waited months for his condolences, wrote to him to say “some days I don’t want to live,” and still heard nothing. In contrast,…Continue Reading
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who is the second-longest serving Democrat in the Senate, will be 90 years old when her term ends in 2024. And according to a recent report from the San Francisco Chronicle, Feinstein has been struggling with her memory and has become worrisomely reliant on staff.In written statements, Feinstein has pushed…Continue Reading
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Video shows aftermath of explosions in Kharkiv that killed one, injured 1800:21Life imitates art: “Girl in the red coat” from Schindler’s List helping refugees at Polish-Ukrainian border04:13Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik is driven by both rage and love as she takes up arms for her country04:43Chef José Andrés: ‘Sometimes a plate of food is the beginning…Continue Reading
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