Prime Minister Theresa May, who was actually against Brexit before she was for it, made another dramatic U-turn on Tuesday, declaring that Britain needs to elect a new Parliament in June, three years ahead of schedule, despite her clear promise… Read More ›
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Students at Pakistani University Lynch Classmate Falsely Accused of Blasphemy
The brutal lynching of a journalism student by classmates at a Pakistani university on Thursday, shortly after he was accused of blasphemy by administrators, appalled civil society activists, and provided new evidence of the corrosive effects of the nation’s strict… Read More ›
Assad Suggests Chemical Attack Was “a Play” Staged by Al Qaeda and the U.S.
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, suggested in an interview broadcast on Thursday that social media evidence of a deadly chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in northern Syria last week was fake. The images that shocked the world, he… Read More ›
Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Know Which Syria Conspiracy Theory to Believe
Even for the president of Russia, the news from Syria is increasingly coming to resemble a choose your own adventure story, in which readers pick a starting point and entirely different narratives are woven from the same facts. For Vladimir… Read More ›
Trump Surrenders Element of Surprise by Warning Russia of Planned Strike on Its Ally Syria
No doubt fearing the grave risk of killing Russian military personnel on the ground in Syria, the United States military gave Russia advance notice before launching cruise missile strikes overnight on a Syrian air base that is used to store… Read More ›
FBI Director James Comey Takes On New Role Fact-Checking the President’s Tweets
In a first for Congressional hearings, James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was asked to say under oath on Monday if the official Twitter feed of the President of the United States was lying about the testimony… Read More ›
Spat With Turkey Appears to Boost Dutch Prime Minister on Eve of Election
Pre-election polls in the Netherlands, one day before voters choose a new parliament, suggest that Prime Minister Mark Rutte could be returned to office as the head of the country’s largest party, boosted by a wave of approval for his… Read More ›
Women’s Strike Organizers Arrested in New York on a Day of Protests Worldwide
Police in New York arrested three leaders of the Women’s March movement for blocking traffic outside the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday as they took part in the global “Day Without Women” strike, called to mark International Women’s Day. Linda… Read More ›
Trump Can’t Accept That His Allies Are Targeting Jews — So He Blames His Opponents
A wave of attacks on Jewish cemeteries and bomb threats against Jewish community centers might not be anti-Semitic acts but “the reverse,” Donald Trump hinted darkly on Tuesday, according to Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s attorney general. Trump’s apparent embrace of a… Read More ›
Fox News Interview With Fake Expert on Sweden Further Baffles Swedes
A man interviewed by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News this week, who was identified in an on-screen caption as a “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor,” turns out to be entirely unknown in his native country, with no connections to… Read More ›