The air in El Zonte hangs heavy, thick with salt and sun, sticking to your skin like the stories it holds. At 6:17 a.m., surfers are already pulling out of the water, their boards dripping as they shuffle to beachfront cafés. By sunset, kids splash in the shallows while fishermen haul in their last catch […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander in chief’s parting remarks. “Now he tells us. Biden speaks out against dark money, for climate action, and for SCOTUS term limits. I pressed four years for this speech,” Whitehouse posted […]
View of Kororāreka in the Bay of Islands, 1845. Credit: George Thomas Clayton, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY New Zealand’s first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell. But its history—especially the bits that have been forgotten—tells […]
It’s that old adage burned into your brain after your mom said it to you a million times growing up: If you don’t have anything nice to say, at least don’t admit to the world that you don’t know how to use Google. Kylie Kelce offered a refresher of this concept to the world, especially […]
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan. “This is a moral and scientific imperative,” the WHO said in a statement to mark what it called the “milestone” anniversary. “Without transparency, sharing, and co-operation among […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in Vienna, Va., on Jan. 8. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from […]
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last week that “the stakes are high” for 2025, as the company faces increased competition and regulatory hurdles and contends […]
When Ernie Johnson sat down with GQ, he was just a few days away from beginning his 35th year as cohost of TNT’s award-winning studio show Inside the NBA. Johnson may be best known for producing basketball’s most viral commentary alongside Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O’Neill, but, in recent years, the 68-year-old has […]
CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – Syria’s newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told Iran on Tuesday not to spread chaos in Syria but to respect the Syrian people’s will and the country’s sovereignty. In a post on X, Shibani said: “Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people and the country’s sovereignty and security. We […]
For several years, the final “Saturday Night Live” episode of the year includes a segment of “Weekend Update” in which co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che write jokes that the other must read for the first time on the air. For Jost, this typically has meant Che forces him to say a litany of jokes […]
