[ad_1] Rose Dugdale, an Oxford-educated Englishwoman who left a wealthy life to become a party activist fighting for Irish independence in a career that included bomb-making, kidnapping and art theft, died Monday in Dublin. . She was 82 years old. His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by Aengus O Snodaigh, a friend and … Read more
[ad_1] As a driver on the glamorous jet-setting Formula One circuit, Austrian Gerhard Berger naturally drove a serious car, even off the track: a red Ferrari 512M Testarossa. Therefore, it was very likely that, with some dismay, he would watch his car drive away unexpectedly with someone else at the wheel. The theft took place … Read more
[ad_1] Hidden in Terry Ahwal’s basement is her personal wall of fame: Here she is at Obama’s White House Christmas party. Here’s a framed thank you note from President Bill Clinton. There he is smiling next to Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan. President Biden, Ahwal says, will not appear on his wall. After a … Read more
[ad_1] Alexander Smirnov was, in many ways, the archetype of an informant operating in the dark lands of the former Soviet Union: a profiteer, fixer, and gossip who touted his ability to make sense of a confusing landscape to American law enforcement agencies. For more than a decade, he played a double game, giving the … Read more
[ad_1] About 717 million years ago, Earth’s humid landscapes and turbulent blue waters transformed into a frigid, arid world. Scientists nicknamed this stage in geological history, and others like it, Snowball Earth. What exactly froze the planet almost solid has been a mystery, as has how it stayed that way for 56 million years. On … Read more
[ad_1] With six days until the Iowa caucuses, politicians will crisscross the state, touring small-town pizzerias, filling high school gymnasiums and flipping pancakes at church breakfasts. What Iowans won’t see are Democrats. President Biden spoke Friday in Pennsylvania, and he and Vice President Kamala Harris were in South Carolina over the weekend and Monday. But … Read more
[ad_1] Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro who broke with him over his brutal crackdown on dissent in the early 1960s, and later collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency before fleeing the island nation in 1964, to never speak to his brother again. She died Monday in Miami. She was 90 years old. … Read more
[ad_1] A pond in Hawaii became a social media spectacle this week after turning bubblegum pink. However, experts said the new hue was not just a photo opportunity but an indicator of environmental stress. Staff members at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui have been monitoring the pink water for the past two … Read more
[ad_1] Their pink bodies began washing ashore last month, surprising locals and scientists in the remote Amazon town of Tefé, Brazil, who had never seen anything like it. A devastating drought had left parts of the tributaries that flow into the Amazon River nearly dry, causing some water routes to become impassable and turning other … Read more
[ad_1] The polite way to describe the legacy of a man like Rupert Murdoch is to leave aside whether his achievements were good or bad and simply focus on how great they were. It’s praising him the way Kendall Roy remembers his father, Logan, in “Succession,” the HBO corporate drama based not too loosely on … Read more