The BBC has admitted that it “fell short and failed people” by failing to address “bullying and misogynistic” behaviour by former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood. The corporation issued an apology after a major external inquiry by barrister Gemma White found that there had been “missed opportunities” that could have led to action. In a […]
BBC Abdullah Al Nofal (left) and his wife Douna Haj Ahmed It was early December when Douna Haj Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, discovered the disturbing details of her husband’s detention in the notorious Al-Khatib prison – known as “Hell on Earth“. She was watching bewildered prisoners fleeing the country’s brutal security apparatus, on the news […]
If you follow the news about gun violence in America, you know that there’s a lot to be pessimistic about. Guns were already a major public health concern when the pandemic hit and the murder rate skyrocketed. The surge in homicide in 2020 and 2021, research has shown, was best understood as a surge in […]
Games with Black leads and characters were derided as forced. Female characters deemed unattractive or masculine were suffering from “DEI chin.” Dragon Age: The Veilguardwas criticized by far-right trolls for its customization options, which allow players to create characters with top surgery scars or play with a nonbinary companion. After reviews were released, conspiracists latched […]
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles. But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon […]
Tulsi Gabbard, the onetime Democrat who is Donald Trump’s pick to be the country’s next director of national intelligence, was a faithful consumer of Kremlin-controlled media, three of her former congressional aides told ABC News. According to ABC’s report, the aides said that the failed presidential candidate regularly read and shared stories from RT—a state-run […]
A chance meeting in December 2017 plunged Zoë Kestan, a downtown “it” girl and social media star, headlong into an unpredictable affair.
ARLINGTON, Texas — The roof is literally falling on the Dallas Cowboys. A piece of the AT&T Stadium roof fell onto the field prior to the Cowboys’ Monday night showdown against the Houston Texans that ended in a 34-10 defeat. Specifically, a large piece of metal fell from the ceiling roughly two hours prior to kickoff […]
In director and writer Marco Calvani’s “High Tide,” well-known Brazilian actor Marco Pigossi stars as Lourenco, an immigrant living in Provincetown, the iconic gay getaway in Massachusetts. Suddenly single with his visa about to expire, he meets and falls for Maurice (James Bland), a Black doctor from New York City who is on vacation before […]
But the latest research has convinced Pollak and some others that treatment of cancers should be taken off the list. More studies, but no proof One of the first hints linking metformin to anticancer effects came in a short note in the British Medical Journal in 2005. Researchers analyzed medical records of almost 12,000 people […]
