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As of mid-April, when a Pentagon flack announced it in Kiev, and as barely reported in American media, U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. Now there is a lead I have long dreaded writing but suspected from the first that one day I would. Do not take a moment to think about this….
Erin Gloria Ryan Jezebel managing editor Erin Gloria Ryan was punched in the head without provocation while walking in Williamsburg on Friday night. The 31-year-old was walking alone on North Sixth Street around 10:40 p.m. when she was allegedly struck by Mariah Correa, a 20-year-old woman to whom Ryan had no relation. An NYPD spokesperson…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code In the magical borough of Staten Island, one can live in an actual home, like one you’d find in America… but in New York City. For under $1 million. This century-old historic Victorian is currently on the market with an asking price of $894,000. According to…
by Zack Ford Posted on May 8, 2015 at 10:27 am “‘Hecklers’ Veto’ Fails To Block Transgender Protections In Country’s 10th Largest School District” CREDIT: Twitter/InsideNOVA/Jill Palermo Thursday night, the Fairfax County School Board, which oversees Virginia’s largest school system — and the tenth largest in the country — voted 10-1 with one abstention to…
Dean Skelos is accused of some old-fashioned “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” corruption. (AP) Florida may have eclipsed our fair state in population, but we’ve got those yahoos in Tallahassee beat—we’ve got the most corrupt state government in the country! This makes up for the time a real estate blog pretended D.C. residents…
The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens. As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in….
Figures released by Germany’s Interior Ministry just two days before the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are sobering. They reveal a “sharp increase” in right-wing violence, with 175 racially motivated attacks in 2014, as compared to 58 the year before. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said asylum seekers and…
12/21/2014 Font: – + The End of Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Movement Rattles Germany By SPIEGEL Staff REUTERS Members of the loosely organized “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West,” gather at a major protest in Dresden in eastern Germany on Dec. 8. Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest…
A man is being investigated for felonious assault after striking another man over the head with a chair, as seen in an Instagram video, posted May 5, 2015. By Brian Ries2015-05-06 16:38:50 UTC An Instagram video captured the shocking moment a man viciously clobbered two gay men over their heads with a chair at a…
Peaceful protesters have been pleading their case against police brutality for months in Baltimore. I kept hearing people say, “Baltimore is not Ferguson,” meaning, I suppose, that we do not repress our issues of wealth and racial disparity or deny them. Baltimore, after all, has been a city in recovery for half a century now….