During the early hours of Jan. 31, there will be a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon, and a supermoon — all at the same time. None of these things is really all that unusual by itself. What’s rare is that they’re happening all together on one day. What makes the moon…
A formation of US Carrier Strike Group Five and Expeditionary Strike Group Seven ships in the Philippine Sea. Sipa USA/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.A series of accelerating and interlocking security crises, from the Middle East and southwest Asia to North Korea, makes the first months of 2017 an especially perilous time. Increasing the dangers…
THE GOOD NEWS: A co-op in Washington, D.C., is reducing recidivism rates and unemployment among incarcerated people. It’s practically common knowledge that the U.S. imprisons an inordinately high percentage of its citizens. More shameful still is the systemic racism that often guides this mass incarceration trend. According to the NAACP, the U.S. prison population…
A Yazidi woman at a displaced persons camp in Iraq. Photo: Carol Guzy/PA Images. All rights reserved.Sexual violence in conflict – and the attention it receives – is not new. Every generation grows up with its horror stories. For mine, it has been ISIS; for my mother's, the Bosnian war and the Rwandan genocide; for…
While some hotels may offer much in the way of general security — a doorperson, keycard access for elevators, guards — a recent video shows that hotel guest room doors can fall woefully short in actually keeping intruders at bay. The MM Developer YouTube channel seems hellbent on ensuring you realize that nearly any lock…
Emmanuel Macron and the En Marche! movement in Nantes, western France, on April 19, 2017.Vincent Feuray/Press Association. All rights reserved.The day after the stunning results of France’s presidential election first round last Sunday April 23 which saw maverick candidate Emmanuel Macron first past the post, overtaking in the last days of the campaign arch-favourite extreme…
NFL rookie wide receiver John Ross knows something about staying ahead of his competition. He ran the fastest 40-yard dash ever at the in NFL Scouting Combine, in a blazing-fast 4.22 seconds, ranking as the second-best wide receiver prospect by Sports Illustrated in 2017 before he was drafted ninth overall by the Cincinnati Bengals. Despite…
Activists hold banners protesting the refugee-migration crisis in front of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece, on Sept. 5, 2017. Marios Lolos/ Press Association. All rights reserved.The EU Relocation programme, which aimed to relocate 160,000 people in need of international protection from Greece and Italy to the other member states over…
THE GOOD NEWS: Hospitals in Spain are seeing fewer underweight and premature babies after a nationwide ban on smoking. Fewer premature and underweight infants are being born in Spain than ever before, and it may be thanks to the country’s recent smoking ban. Spain implemented two different restrictions. In 2006, they banned smoking from…
Click:媒体发稿 An aerial view shows a small portion of Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center collapsed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Picture by Eric J. Tilford/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved. The 28-page famous Congressional report has ended in a bill known as JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act). Part of the…