A monster great white shark that was spotted violently thrashing in the shallows after washing ashore at a popular beach has been euthanized. Lifeguards first spotted the four-meter shark struggling in the water in front of Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club, near the Queensland border on the New South Wales coast, on Monday morning. Local Suzy […]
In recent weeks, the talk in Europe has turned to where, after Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin could set his sights on next. Could that place be Moldova? Last week, officials in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria set alarm bells ringing by declaring that this Wednesday they plan to convene a rare meeting of […]
Even before the embarrassing performances of the presidents of MIT, Harvard and UPenn on anti-Semitism in December, Republican leaders — particularly those representing the least educated voters — have been assailing American universities, dragging them into conservatives’ latest culture wars. In September, the Republican auditor of Mississippi — the second-most uneducated state — called several […]
The cruelty is the point. As Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday night, Donald Trump now has the Republican presidential nomination sewn up. But like a Roman emperor or mob boss, Trump used his victory speech in New Hampshire to humiliate his former opponents – and make sinister threats against his last primary rival. Related: Trump […]
In 2014, the world was shaken by a peculiar image circulating the news: a silver suitcase that had been pulled from a black garbage bag with blood smears all over it. Authorities would later confirm that inside contained the remains of a full grown woman who was allegedly murdered by her daughter. Heather Mack, a […]