Days before they are set to headline a rally in Detroit, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., traded critical messages in statements released Friday, escalating tensions between the two in the final days of El-Sayed’s campaign for Senate. Stevens said that she expected El-Sayed, the progressive candidate who defeated her in a bitter Democratic…
As you cross the Ottawa river into Témiscaming, Quebec, the paper mill takes up much of the horizon. The town itself was built over a century ago, around the mill and the region’s forests filled with pine, birch, spruce and fir. Now, the main employer and economic anchor sits idle after trade talks broke down…
Every autumn, trees shower the ground with leaves in shades of gold, rust and deep red. Most of them end up swept into a pile and thrown away, but a few can find a second life inside your home. Whether it’s chinar leaves from Kashmir, peepal leaves from your neighbourhood or maple leaves from a…
A federal judge issued a sweeping order Friday night blocking the Trump administration from threatening or intimidating election officials amid pressure tactics used by the administration in the weeks leading up to next week’s midterm elections. The eight-page order prohibits any action that may “threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local elections officials or workers…
Two major blockchain analytics firms say they have robust intelligence pointing to a North Korean state-backed group as the likely culprits in the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The Lazarus Group, a North Korean hacking unit also known as TraderTraitor, was identified “with high confidence” by TRM Labs, as well…
Omar Khayyam, Smile’s Indian restaurant, opened in late 1901 at 325 Fifth Avenue. This was prime real estate, a block away from the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where, 29 years later, the Empire State Building would rise. Smile adorned the restaurant with Indian draperies and hanging lanterns. As the New York Herald reported, a fleet of…
A dawn sky represents a beautiful beginning. The sky, painted in shades of purple and blue, with the golden sun streaking across it, is arguably one of nature’s prettiest sights. A baby is much like that beautiful beginning, a little ray of light arriving after the darkness. And if you are looking for a name…
The Trump administration is preparing to deport dozens of Afghan immigrants and asylum seekers to Pakistan on the first such flight of its kind, a senior administration official told NBC News — a move critics say could put their lives at risk. The proposed deportation flight, which has not been publicly announced, could take place…
Hundreds of residents of the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky were evacuated and driven to safety on Friday, following a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump. Residents had a four-hour window to leave the city. Some people are understood to have stayed despite the lack of power and water in the area. The…
Getting children ready in the morning can sometimes feel like a test of patience. You ask them to brush their teeth, get dressed and comb their hair. They say they will do it, but a few minutes later, you find them playing with a toy or doing something completely different. So you repeat the instructions,…
