The University of Iowa kicked off a new football tradition on Saturday when fans stopped to wave to patients at the University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital next door. At the end of the first quarter, the roughly 70,000 fans at Kinnick Stadium turned and waved to the kids in the treatment rooms overlooking…
Mourners carry the Iraqi flag-draped coffin of a bomb victim during the funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, July 5, 2016. Hadi Mizban /Press Association. All rights reserved. Did we really need 2.6 million words and 7 years of investigations to be told we should be making better decisions when we go to war? Oxford Research…
In recent years, films have embraced the “Bad Mom” narrative: A female parent exhibits behavior that, traditionally, has only been socially acceptable for men to display—recklessness, a penchant for partying, a lackadaisical approach to authority. From hard-hitting dramas like 2009’s Precious and 2001’s Riding in Cars with Boys to raunchy comedies like 2016’s Bad Moms, films…
Yorgos Karahalis/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.Although the Turkey-EU agreement over refugees has attracted a global human rights outcry, the deal has been put into operation. The agreement is fraught with political, ethical, humanitarian and legal problems. While the refugees do not want to go back to Turkey and showcase this nolleity with their placards of…
Roy Tuscany had spent most of his life on the slopes, training in the hopes of one day competing in the Olympics. The only Vermonter in his family to develop a love for skiing, he knew it would become his destiny. He focused his entire life around the sport and moved west to Lake Tahoe, where he…
Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.The face of the Egyptian revolt is that of thousands of protestors occupying Tahrir Square in central Cairo, chanting for the fall of Mubarak, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forced (SCAF), and the Muslim Brotherhood – all over the course of three years. The narrative revolved around young, middle…
Tskhinvali, South Ossetia: the anniversary of the August 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict is often a tense occasion. (c) Sergey Ponomarev / AP / Press Association Images. All rights reserved.While some villagers in western Georgia restore statues to Stalin, the people of Areshperani celebrate another prodigy. This small village of 150 in Kakheti, western Georgia, is a centre…
It’s official. Trump formally announced his plans to withdraw U.S. support of the Paris climate agreement Thursday afternoon via a Facebook live stream from the White House Rose Garden. This decision goes against a worldwide effort to prevent further environmental damage caused by global warming. In defending his decision, Trump employed a study funded by the…
Portland Bill lighthouse, Dorset, UK – warning fog signal. Flickr/ Elliott Brown. Some rights reserved.It is said that in the 1930s an English newspaper once published the following headline: “Fog in Channel – Continent Cut Off”. Ever since, this has been taken as a snapshot of British national character, evidence of a longstanding British attitude…
Fans attending the Little League World Series later this month will be in for an additional spectacle. Midway through the tourney, on Aug. 21, fans present between 1:14 and 3:56 p.m. will also have front-row seats to a partial solar eclipse. The Williamsport, Pennsylvania, site of the sporting event isn’t located in an area privy…