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US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections

Phys Dot Org 2024-05-01

photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/Andrea Bohl

The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray wolf across much of the country, sparking outrage among conservationists. Sponsored by Representative Lauren Boebert, a right-wing firebrand from Colorado, the...

Opinion: If Trump wins, I might leave America for good

CNN 2024-05-01

photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

I’ve been an on-again, off-again resident of France for some 44 years, at times quite permanently, more often peripatetically, always in the same building around the corner from the Musée d’Orsay and directly across the Seine from the Tuileries. We were never really forced to make a choice whether...

Paul Auster: cool narrator of noirish New York

Guam Pacific Daily News 2024-05-01

photo: AP Photo/EFE, J. L. Cereijido

Emilie BICKERTON May 1, 2024 40 mins ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Paul Auster, the Mr Cool of American fiction, has set many of his novels in New York City and his works are translated into more than 40 languages Michal CIZEK Paul Auster and his wife, US writer Siri Hustvedt, have been...

Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city

CNN 2024-05-01

photo: Creative Commons / Marcin Białek

The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is India’s spiritual capital. And here, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political stronghold, tensions...

How Far Trump Would Go

Time Magazine 2024-04-30

photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice. We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges...

How our memories of food tell us who we are

CNN 2024-04-30

photo: Creative Commons / Michael J. Bennett/https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bennett000

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is not one to sugarcoat the past. Take vanilla, for example — that heady, aromatic stem taking you back to sickly sweet children’s birthday cake or that scented lotion you had as a teen. But Nezhukumatathil writes about baking with her young son, creating vanilla extract with...

Elon Musk on collision course with China’s future

Asiatimes 2024-04-30

photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

What a difference 11,000 kilometers make. Elon Musk may be thinking just that as Tesla shares surge on the power of the billionaire flying to Beijing from Austin, Texas. Sure, Musk claims to have cleared some regulatory hurdles to roll out his driver-assistance system in the globe’s biggest auto...

What Columbia's pro-Palestinian protesters are saying

The New Arab 2024-04-30

photo: UN / Evan Schneider

After midnight in the early hours of Tuesday morning, pro-Palestinian students at Columbia took over Hamilton Hall after the university's administration issued a new wave of suspensions over an encampment in protest of Israel's war on Gaza. In a press release sent at around 2 am, the student...

Immigration Named Top U.S. Problem for Third Straight Month

Gallup 2024-04-30

photo: AP / Andres Leighton, File

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A steady 27% of Americans say the most important problem facing the U.S. is immigration, topping Gallup’s open-ended trend for the third consecutive month, the longest stretch for this particular issue in the past 24 years. ###Embeddable### The latest results are based...

U.S. Economic Confidence Falls for First Time Since October

Gallup 2024-04-30

photo: AP / Gene J. Puskar

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index is -29 in April, nine points lower than March’s -20 reading. This is the first time in five months that confidence has not seen a marginal improvement, and the first decline in economic confidence in the past seven months....

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