Opinion (UK) Britain will have its second referendum – at the EU elections on 23 MayThe Guardian - Timothy Garton AshIf Labour is not clear enough, then turn to the Lib Dems, Change UK, the Green party, the Scottish National party or Plaid Cymru. In just five weeks’ time, Britain will have a referendum on Brexit. This
Trump Administration Mueller report: collusion findings are devastating for TrumpVox - Zack BeauchampThe contacts with Russians documented in the report amount to a devastating indictment of Trump’s approach to politics. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Donald Trump and Russia establishes a
William Barr Barr Embarrasses Himself and the Justice DepartmentBloomberg - Jonathan Bernstein Attorney General William Barr’s cheerleading for President Donald Trump on Thursday morning was entirely inappropriate, and forces the question of …
Robert Mueller Robert Mueller Told Congress They Can Prosecute the President. Now It Gets UglyTIME - Alana AbramsonMore than two years after Robert Mueller began investigating whether President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, the Special Counsel offered the American people a sobering conclusion in his report,
U.S. Politics Trump’s Guardrails Are GoneThe Atlantic - Peter NicholasElaina PlottThe president’s more pliant senior advisers might end up indulging his ultimately self-sabotaging behavior. One Saturday in June 2017, President Donald Trump called Don McGahn twice at home. The president
Trump Tower Mueller report suggests the ‘fake news’ came from Trump, not the news mediaThe Washington Post - By Paul FarhiIf special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation makes one thing clear, it’s that many of the news reports that President Trump branded as “fake news” were, in fact, very real news indeed. While
Watergate Watergate conspirator James McCord Jr. died two years ago. His death was never announced.The Washington Post - By Emily Langer ,James W. McCord Jr., a retired CIA employee who was convicted as a conspirator in the Watergate burglary and later linked the 1972 break-in to the White House in revelations that helped end the presidency
Washington D.C. Amid a life of poverty and torment, the cello became his instrument of survivalThe Washington PostOn a winter afternoon, Eddie Adams walked into a Kohl’s department store in Fairfax County looking for a red button-down shirt. He really didn’t have the money, but he was set to go onstage at the Kennedy
News Lost sea creatures wash up on California shores as ocean climate shiftsThe Washington Post - By Scott WilsonBODEGA BAY, Calif. — The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there. The violet, thumbnail-size snails washing up here in Horseshoe Cove have never
Trump Tower Paranoia, lies and fear: Trump’s presidency laid bare by Mueller reportThe Washington Post - By Philip Rucker, Robert CostaThe moment President Trump learned two years ago that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate Russian election interference, he declared in the Oval Office, “This is the end of my presidency.”
Robert Mueller Mueller’s report paints a damning portrait of Trump’s presidencyThe Washington Post - By Dan BalzThe Trump presidency long has been an exercise in normalizing extraordinary behavior, with President Trump repeatedly stretching the limits of what is considered appropriate conduct by the nation’s chief
Opinion (India) What France Has Money ForThe New York Times - By MICHAËL FOESSEL and ETIENNE OLLIONPARIS — For Georges Duby, a historian of the Middle Ages, one of the defining features of a historic event, or “évènement,” is that it triggers waves of commentary that bring out what had been kept unspoken.
Trump Tower Moscow Mueller Hints at a National-Security NightmareThe New York Times - By JOSHUA A. GELTZER and RYAN GOODMANThe Mueller report isn’t actually close to a full account of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller. That’s not just because of the redactions. When he was hired, Mr. Mueller inherited
Art Edvard Munch: Love and Angst review – shattering despair for all to seeThe Guardian - Laura CummingThe face of Edvard Munch, pale, tense, insomniac, looms like a moon in outer darkness. Black night seethes all around him and there is a funereal austerity to his collar and neatly combed hair. The wide
Van Gogh Museum Stolen Van Gogh works return to public display after 17 yearsThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsSeventeen years after being snatched from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, two of the artist’s works have been put back on public display, bringing the story of one of most infamous postwar art heists
William Barr William Barr just did Trump another huge favorThe Washington Post - By Aaron BlakeWhen Attorney General William P. Barr announced he was going to hold a news conference before the release of the Mueller report Thursday, there was instant pushback. How can the media ask questions about
Oil Drilling Dog Saved By Workers On Oil Rig, 135 Miles Off Thai CoastNPR - Merrit KennedyWorkers on an oil rig about 135 miles offshore from southern Thailand noticed something stunning in the water: a dog. The animal swam toward the rig's platform on Friday and clung to it as team members
Thailand ‘His eyes were so sad’: Oil rig crew rescues a dog swimming 135 miles off ThailandThe Washington Post - By Kyle SwensonVitisak Payalaw and his crew were working on an oil rig 135 miles off the southern coast of Thailand on Friday when they spotted something unexpectedly bobbing in the gentle waves. It was a dog. The animal
World News Amid France’s culture wars, Notre Dame brings a pause for mournful unityThe Washington Post - By James McAuleyPARIS — The centuries have thrown almost everything at Notre Dame. And, in turn, the scenes that have played out in front of the cathedral carry the weight of the city’s collective consciousness: plagues,
William Barr Who Is William Barr? He Decides What the Public Can See in Mueller’s ReportThe New York Times - By EILEEN SULLIVANAfter weeks of combing through the special counsel report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference, including whether any Trump associates coordinated with the Russians and whether President
Brexit Party The Human Wedge in a Fracturing U.K. Conservative PartyThe New York Times - By BENJAMIN MUELLERLONDON — Red-faced and almost vibrating with anger, Mark Francois rose from the green leather benches of the House of Commons after his fellow lawmakers had voted to delay Brexit, torpedoing his dream
Media Industry CBBC star Mya-Lecia Naylor dies suddenly aged 16The Guardian - Mattha BusbyBBC children’s TV star Mya-Lecia Naylor has died suddenly aged 16, with the broadcaster paying tribute to her “huge talent”. The cause of her death, on 7 April, is not yet known, although her agent, A&J
Donald Trump A President of the People or a President of His People?The New York Times - By PETER BAKERWASHINGTON — In the last couple of weeks, President Trump repeatedly called his enemies “treasonous.” He threatened to punish Democrats by dumping migrants in their districts. He promoted a video tying
World News Yesterday, Notre Dame burned. Today, people around the world raised millions to rebuild.The Washington Post - By Michael Brice-SaddlerLess than 24 hours after a blaze tore through Notre Dame Cathedral, donors have raised hundreds of millions to aid in restoration efforts. The donations come in as Paris officials are working to quantify
Notre Dame Cathedral As Notre Dame burned, Trump again tweeted something abnormalThe Washington Post - By Kathleen ParkerAt least he recognized the urgency. As the world gasped in horror on Monday at the sight of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral burning in a cataclysmic moment, the president of the United States imparted these
Slavery David Brion Davis, Pulitzer-winning historian who reshaped study of slavery, dies at 92The Washington Post - By Harrison SmithDavid Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whose three-volume chronicle of international slavery demonstrated its centrality to Western history, laying bare its political, economic and cultural
Prince Harry Scorned British Tabloids to Harry and Meghan: Show Us Your Baby!The New York Times - By ELLEN BARRYLONDON — Of the various press rituals surrounding the British royal family, few are sillier than the vigil outside a London maternity ward, where squadrons of news reporters wait on the street, sometimes
World News Pictures of Notre-Dame Before the Fire: A Cathedral That Defined a CityThe New York Times - By ERIC NAGOURNEYWhen the architects of Cathedral of Notre-Dame set to work some 850 years ago, their goals were nothing if not ambitious. The church’s sanctuary, they decreed, must be taller than any built before. The
News Fire Mauls Beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in ParisThe New York Times - By ADAM NOSSITER and AURELIEN BREEDENPARIS — Notre-Dame cathedral, the symbol of the beauty and history of Paris, was scarred by an extensive fire on Monday evening that caused its delicate spire to collapse, bruised the Parisian skies with
