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Photo An emergency medical worker with a sick passenger on the F train in Brooklyn in June. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times A voice over the intercom delivers the bad news, and throughout the car there are audible sighs. Your train is delayed because of a sick passenger. Subway riders sit and…
During Iraq’s long summer of 2004, one of the many prisoners who arrived at the American-run facility at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq was a young jihadist who fought under the name Abu Ahmed. Though he’d feared prison, Abu Ahmed found, to his surprise, a kind of jihadist salon, as extremist fighters locked up together…
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart. When Mohamed Aly Ansar studied international law at the University of Bamako, in the capital of Mali, he spent his days thinking about how to bring development to his…
Only NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal spoke with two Philadelphia men who were delayed from boarding a flight home from Chicago after they say another passenger complained about them speaking Arabic. (Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2015) A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday night in order to…
(Don Richards) Rats have long been taking advantage of people in the city with the same gusto as hot dog sellers and Staten Island Ferry dealers—but thanks to all the viral food people have been throwing at them lately, they’re starting to act more and more like humans. Connecticut man Don Richards told Fox61…
James Bradfield worked the graveyard shift at a factory that built airplane parts in Jackson, Mississippi. It was a new job and he didn’t like the hours. He’d previously worked for a company that made radiators, but the company went out of business and Bradfield had to take the next job he could find. And…
Photo by Sarah Mirk, Creative Commons This Friday, people at memorials across the country will repeat a chorus of names: Keyshia Blige, Tamara Dominguez, Kandis Capri… the list goes on. November 20 is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day recognizing the memory of lives lost to acts of anti-transgender violence. Transgender Day of…
By Susannah Hutcheson, Regular ContributorNovember 21, 2015 image via epykliving.co.uz Dear you, Yes, I’m talking to you. You with the crazy-curly hair, you with the bump on your nose, you with the legs scattered with marks from running around outside like crazy when you were a kid. I’m talking to you with the 4.0 GPA,…
Woman Finds Out Boyfriend of Six Years Is Undercover Cop Spying on Her and Her Friends All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers BODY The most traumatising time of Lisa Jones’s life began when she agonised for months over the true identity of…
Last month, at long last, we enjoyed Back to the Future Day — the day to which Marty McFly travels in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II. It’s a kind of death sentence for our era: we’re all living in the future now; the time in which things might have changed has passed, and all…