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The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco site, surprised its audience yesterday by announcing that it was shutting down. “Together we have built a strong community of followers, contributors, and partners. However, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations,” the site said in a post announcing its closure. “It’s been a great run…
TIME World Greece Greece Seeks $305 Billion in WWII Reparations From Germany Louisa Gouliamaki—AFP/Getty Images Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives to present his ministry’s new secretaries at a press conference in Athens on March 4, 2015. Amid a continuing negotiation over debt relief from the European Union bailout Greece released its first quantifiable demand…
150 years after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict. Wikimedia Commons On this 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox, Americans mark the end of the Civil War. The questions at the heart of the war, though, still occupy the nation,…
Apparently a crew of three “artists,” plus assistants, dragged a four-foot-tall plaster-like bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden up Fort Greene Park and on top of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument last night (Sunday night), and adhered it to one of the top columns. They also adhered letters spelling his name to the bottom of…
@heyybrighteyes/via Twiitter A photo posted to Twitter shows firefighters arrive at the entrance to the No. 7 station at Vernon/Jackson Aves. in Long Island City. More than 500 straphangers were evacuated from a No. 7 train inside the tunnel under the East River on Monday morning after a mechanical issue led the tube to fill…
Churros Union Square Subway Station View Full Caption MIDTOWN EAST — Ana Alvarado has been arrested seven times for selling churros in subway stations over the past two-and-a-half years, but she continues to do it to feed herself and her two kids, she said. Once police arrest Alvarado, they confiscate the churros and take her…
It started out well enough. Tens of thousands of people gathered in Montreal’s Victoria Square, the heart of what’s left of its financial heft, waving banners, shouting slogans, hugging, smiling, high-fiving, smoking weed, all with the intent of sticking it to Quebec’s Liberal premier, Philippe Couillard, and his austerity budget. Thursday’s march was the apex…
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A man following his vehicle’s GPS navigation drove the couple’s car off a partially demolished bridge. (Ken Davidson/Northwest Indiana Gazette) A Chicago woman was killed after her husband followed their car’s GPS navigation off a partially demolished bridge that has been closed since 2009, according to reports. Zohra Hussain, 51, died after their Nissan Sentra…
Photo Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday to deal with the drought. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Video close media-action-overlay California’s Extreme Drought, Explained The state is experiencing the worst drought in its history. Find out just how…