It’s easy to forget that the first Christmas tree adornments were relatively simple. Celebrants in 16th century Germany, the birthplace of the decorated evergreen, relied on apples, baked goods, candles and tin ornaments. Apparently, they were unable to track millennial influencers on Instagram or Etsy to tell them otherwise. These simple, homespun ornaments are still […]
Mexico City — The United States will not classify Mexican drug cartels as international terrorist organizations — at least for now. President Trump tweeted Friday afternoon that he was holding off on the designation at the request of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “a man who I like and respect, and has worked so well […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church in her state in 2015 “hijacked” the ideals many connected to the Confederate battle flag. Haley told conservative political commentator and Blaze TV host Glenn Beck that the flag had meant “service […]
TEHRAN — Iran and the U.S. conducted a prisoner exchange Saturday that saw a detained Princeton scholar released for an Iranian scientist held by America, marking a rare diplomatic breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions. In a trade conducted in Zurich, Switzerland, Iranian officials handed over Chinese American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained […]
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as we welcome back Michael Wrona to race calling in Southern California. Los Alamitos is back and running Friday in a short seven-day thoroughbred meeting. This week is Friday through Sunday and next week is Thursday through Sunday. Weekday posts are 1 […]
When I last caught up with Jane Klain, the tireless research manager at the Paley Center for Media, on West Fifty-second Street, she had unearthed a long-lost television version of “The Glass Menagerie,” which had aired in 1966 and then vanished for half a century. Klain has a knack for these kinds of quests: she […]
As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to maintain a stable climate, newly released documents show. HuffPost reviewed the documents, which show that Imperial Oil ― Canada’s No. 2 petroleum producer, which the world’s largest publicly-traded oil company […]
MONTREAL — Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on feminists. On the eve of Friday’s anniversary, Montreal changed a plaque in a memorial park that previously referred to a “tragic event” — with no […]
The duo expressed their support for the LGBT community ahead of this weekend’s Rainbow Laces campaign Leicester City stars James Maddison and Ben Chilwell have expressed their support of LGBT footballers, saying that nothing would change if one of their team-mates was to come out as gay. Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign, which takes place over […]
De “Wayne’s World” à “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Mike Myers (“Austin Powers”) pourrait rejoindre le casting du biopic de Queen, ce qui serait un joli clin d’oeil à cette chanson popularisée une 2ème fois dans les années 90 grâce à “Wayne’s World”. “Galiléo, Galiléo…” Mike Myers serait-il en voie pour rejoindre le casting de Bohemian Rhapsody ? Le biopic de […]