Russian rapper Morgenshtern used to praise Putin. After 2022, he left the country and was hit with a foreign agent label, a criminal case, a wanted listing, and a property seizure. The crime: posting on social media without a state-mandated disclaimer. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
On April 8, Israel warned residents to evacuate before hitting at least a dozen locations in Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.
But the military also bombed central Beirut without warning, according to a Post analysis.
A detective garda who was involved in investigations of the Hutch/Kinahan feud said the arrest of Daniel Kinahan in Dubai has given gardaí a sense of pride in their ten year long probe.
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"We were coming off of continuous prosperity, lowering inflation, prices coming down, growth in the manufacturing sector ... So the long-term cost of this war ... is really just depressing to think about the growth that we could be under," economic analyst Henrietta Treyz told MS NOW's Katy Tur.
QVC pioneered selling to bored people at home on their couch. The network might be in dire financial straits, but we’re all living in the consumer world it built
Georgia senator says Americans will pay for Trump’s Iran war, and family’s corruption, with child and health care cuts
It says a lot about our current scandal-rich environment that the FT story hasn’t dominated the news these past three weeks. But congressional Democrats certainly didn’t forget it. trib.al/MawqqIg
The whistleblower has posted footage from inside a JBS pork plant, showing broken equipment and a near-impossible working environment.
Mourners across Lebanon are burying victims of the war with Israel during a 10-day ceasefire.
In Beirut, crowds carried the bodies of Hezbollah fighters, while in Tyre, families gathered at temporary graves for civilians killed in strikes just before the truce.
“When humans find themselves in impossible situations, mentally and spiritually exhausted, they can join together in ridiculing the absurdity of the reality they face,” writes Steve Medeiros, Socio-cultural anthropology PhD Candidate in the Experimental Anthropology Lab, in his op-ed.
With stakes this high, it’s hard to imagine electoral boundaries in Alberta becoming boring any time soon, writes Lisa Young. #abpoli
The rights-of-nature movement aims to step in where environmental regulations fall short. But some critics are wary of the legal consequences.
A new four-week training program from Meta aims to address the shortage of fiber technicians as AI companies sprint to build new data centers. https://bit.ly/3Qngg0X
Show me the money: Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump’s illegal tariffs, writes @ashleymurray.bsky.social for our D.C. bureau @statesnewsroom.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/20/r...
Sgt Celestino Chavez Jr, accounted for in 2025, given full burial honors and posthumous medals in New Mexico
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government.
This brazenly corrupt arrangement is being completely ignored by most major media outlets.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down as CEO after leading the company in the post-Steve Jobs era. He will be replaced by longtime executive John Ternus. https://cnn.it/4tZOJRN
A man with a gun opened fire Monday at the historic Teotihuacán pyramids, killing one Canadian tourist and injuring six other people at the tourist site an hour north of Mexico's capital, the Mexican government said. https://to.pbs.org/3OrlSqp
“Not one of these companies can say with any clarity where their multi-million-dollar donations to Donald Trump’s library slush fund are, or where they will go.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren trib.al/0sHDfDr
Rental companies can be such arseholes! Glad it finally worked out.
"Several officials told me that Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government... Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
