Heat forces yodelers at annual Swiss festival to sing in fountains
BASEL, Switzerland | City fountains became impromptu rehearsal spaces this weekend as yodelers at a festival in Basel, Switzerland, squeezed in last-minute practice while cooling off during Europe’s June heat wave. At one fountain, a folk band dipped their toes in the water on Saturday, as festivalgoers clapped along or cooled their hands under the […]
How some in Palestinian diaspora find connection, identity and resilience in traditional embroidery
Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never seen her parents’ homeland. But more than just making pretty designs, the threads in her needle were stitching […]
A Jefferson for every era, from Lincoln to Trump, and the contradictions that endure
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. | He’s a prize-winning presidential historian who wrote an entire biography of Thomas Jefferson. But even Jon Meacham needs to think for a moment before defining what it means to be a “Jeffersonian.” “Well for a long time, before the civil rights movement, it meant to be more inclined toward states’ rights and […]
Movie Review: Sex is on the menu in Olivia Wilde’s dinner party comedy of manners ‘The Invite’
Soufflé is for dinner but much more is on the table in Olivia Wilde’s deliciously entertaining chamber comedy, “The Invite,” about a couple whose marriage is on the rocks who invite their upstairs neighbors over for an impromptu get-together. Such a gathering is, of course, a standby setup of stage and screen, alike. Faster than […]
Trump announces first-ever midterm convention for GOP in Dallas in September
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of November’s midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress. The convention will be held in Dallas on Sept. 9 and 10. Although both major parties traditionally hold […]
Ship runs aground in Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state TV reports
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vessel was identified as a foreign container ship, with no other details. The report appeared aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait, which the […]
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Read more WEDNESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video Read more Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails Read more Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn
WEDNESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video
Read more Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails Read more Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn Read more House GOP deadlocks over Trump’s demands, sending lawmakers home early
Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails
NEW YORK | Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019. Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in Manhattan federal court […]
Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn
WASHINGTON | For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, […]