This could be the year for women’s power. Europe’s two largest economies are led by women and the US could elect its first female president in November.
“In the spring of 1971 I met a girl,” Bill Clinton recalled last night (July 26), opening a speech that was unlike any he has given in his long political and public career. In 42 minutes, the former president recounted the 45 years since he met his wife, who yesterday became the first woman nominated for president by a major party. Hillary Clinton is, he said, ”the best darn change-maker I have ever seen.”
Do you like to catch Pokémons around the world? Uncle Sam wants you!
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aren’t the only people running to become president of the US. In fact, as of July 15, as many as 1,796 people had filed to be presidential candidates, including those affiliated with a minor party and independents. Of them, two are representatives of relatively large parties: Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee, and Jill Stein, of the Green Party. Together they account for 7% to 14% of the votes.
A unique case of Zika in the state of Utah has raised an alarm in the scientific community. A man contracted the virus through contact with his elderly father, who had 100,000 times as many viruses in his blood as a normal infected person. The father died—the first Zika-related death in the US—but the son recovered. Yet we still don’t know how the son contracted the virus in the first place.
On the first day of the Republican National Convention, on July 18, seven women addressed the audience. Five (one of them sharing the stage with a man) spoke before the prime time; they were not politicians, but mothers whose children had died while in combat, in Benghazi, and in accidents where immigrants were involved. They advocated for immigration control, or for a stronger military, or for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.
It’s been about a week since the world lost its mind—for Pokémon Go, that is.
With tragedies and terrible news relentlessly chasing one another through the news cycle, it’s only fair to feel an increasing sense of horrified impotence towards the state of the world. The shock has turned to deep exhaustion. We used to scream, now we sigh.
With a speech that spoke to the fears of conservative Americans, Donald Trump accepted the nomination to be the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States.
In the name of user engagement, McDonald’s New Zealand had a brilliant idea: “Build your own unique burger and the sides are on us,” read the invitation on a web page encouraging customers to design a burger and then order it from a kiosk at a participating McDonald’s.
While Americans overall are losing faith in religion’s ability to help cure social issues, Christian Republicans in particular seem to have a newfound faith—in Donald Trump.
On Tuesday (July 19), Donald Trump was formally nominated as Republican candidate for the US presidency, and the Los Angeles street artist known as Plastic Jesus decided to produce an artwork to mark the event.
The Republican Convention is well underway in Cleveland, Ohio, and Donald Trump is, as of last night (July 19), the party’s official nominee for president of the United States of America. But that is not the biggest news to come out of Cleveland. No, that spot is currently held Melania Trump’s convention speech, which plagiarized several lines of a 2008 Democratic National Convention speech by Michelle Obama.
Between 56 and 160 civilians, including at least 11 children, were killed in an airstrike in Syria yesterday, July 19, reports Reuters and several human rights organizations, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and Amnesty International. SOHR has said that US-led coalition planes likely mistook the civilians for members of terror group ISIL, although that has not been confirmed.
It may only be July, but as many runners know, this is prime time to beginning marathon training. Fall marathons are less than four months away, including the New York City marathon, the world’s largest with more than 50,000 participants, scheduled for Nov. 6.
The Republican National Convention is underway, and the next few days are likely to be intense ones. To help everyone there with issues that go beyond mere halitosis, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has decided to hand out a special nutritional supplement in Cleveland: Islamophobin, the anti-Islamophobia gum.
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Parts of the world are going crazy trying to catch Pokémon through their phone with augmented reality game Pokémon Go. But that doesn’t mean you need to run around town staring at your phone chasing digital creatures to see some much-needed magic in the world.
Negotiating is hard enough when your livelihood is on the line, imagine how difficult it is to negotiate when the future of the world is at stake.
A military coup attempt is underway in Turkey, with the Turkish Armed Forced claiming to “have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and general security that was damaged.”
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he will postpone the announcement of his choice for vice presidential candidate, which was scheduled for tomorrow, July 15.
A truck crashed into a crowd gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France, on the evening of Thursday, July 14, causing a gruesome scene of carnage and crumpled bodies.
After Democratic rival Bernie Sanders endorsed her for the US presidency earlier this week, Hillary Clinton has only one major obstacle left between her and the White House: presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Now, the candidate whose Twitter bio reads “wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate,” is attacking her right-wing opponent with a powerful new weapon: his own R-rated words.
