This year, a California rabbi decided to mark the start of the Jewish High Holidays with another sort of wake-up call ― a rousing sermon aimed directly at senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, a man the rabbi believes has strayed far from Jewish teaching. The New York Times, Miller has defended some of the…
So cute.Image: the pokmon company/nintendo Look at those Pokémon! How delightful. The Pokémon Company and Nintendo teamed up to create this little bundle of Pokémon joy: a special edition Nintendo Switch inspired by the upcoming games Pokémon: Let’s Go, Evee! and Pikachu!, coming this fall. The bundle also includes your choice of the two new…
After looking through these photos, you’ll want to renew your passport and go explore some of these breathtaking places ASAP. Junebug Weddings on Monday announced the winners of its annual Below, check out some of our favorite images. To see the collection in its entirety, 1 Bali, Indonesia Tomica Rasetina 3 Baltimore, Maryland Magdalena Glowacka of Fotomagoria 5…
Since October 2010, all transfers of professional players between clubs of different football associations must be processed via Fifa’s International Transfer Matching System (ITMS). Its latest data does not feature domestic transfer spending. Saudi spending splash Compared with last summer, spending by the Big Five leagues increased by 6.6%, driven by teams from Italy, up…
So far Outlander has taken us through the first three installments of author Diana Gabaldon’s series of the same name. Now, we’re getting a sneak peek of STARZ’s reimagining of Drums of Autumn, Outlander‘s fourth book set in the18th century American colonies… and it looks like things are getting tense. Claire and Jamie find themselves…
In this extract from his new book, Ed Vulliamy reflects on his life as a war correspondent and how music from Sarajevo to the Paris attacks can reveal truths when words fail Sarajevo, August 1993 The day before my 39th birthday, I was reporting on what came to be called the Dobrinja water-queue massacre in…
Not welcome.Image: Getty Images When The New Yorker announced that Steve Bannon — the man who mainstreamed white nationalism as a former Donald Trump adviser — would headline its New Yorker Festival, the internet responded with a collective, “Are you kidding me?“ Then, celebrities slated to appear at the event started pulling out on Twitter. …
Washington (CNN)The White House considered replacing Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long, who is the subject of an ongoing Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation, before Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declined to comment to CNN on conversations about Long’s…
A study, based on interviews, on how oligarchs are reinventing themselves as a cultural elite finds room to skewer their self-aggrandisement and patriotism Everyone loves to write about rich Russians: their yachts; their football clubs; their dalliances with our politicians; their basements. In fact, there are probably asmany British journalists with strong opinions on Russias…
The marathon is one of the most iconic events at the Olympics, taking place on the very last day just before the closing ceremony. But today’s competitions are nothing compared to the 1904 race that left multiple athletes within an inch of death. Less than half of them actually finished the run. Here’s how it…