Thursday, March 28, 2024
Facebook is not taking any action against one of Donald Trump's posts that warned of "shooting" in Minneapolis following protests.Twitter previously said that the post on its site violated its rules on "glorifying violence" and affixed a warning to it.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he had a "visceral negative reaction" to Trump's rhetoric.However, it…
The gunman who killed two and wounded five at a Tallahassee yoga studio before killing himself Friday night had an extensive history of spreading hate messages about women and minorities online. The two victims have been identified as 61-year-old Dr. Nancy Van Vessem and 21-year-old Maura Binkley. After Tallahassee Police identified 40-year-old Scott Paul Beierle…
President Donald Trump’s wall is no longer the biggest divide between Democrats and Republicans on immigration. The potential deal-breaker may be the status of mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters of immigrants.Trump and Republican hard-liners in Congress are demanding that any agreement resolving the legal status of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as…
Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. Toni Morrison in Albany, N.Y., in 1985. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. Toni Morrison in Albany, N.Y., in 1985. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images I met Toni in 1978. I, of…
FOR THE Rohingya refugees in camps in southern Bangladesh, it was a frightening moment. On November 15th a line of buses pulled up outside camp 22, in Unchiprang. The Bangladeshi army was there to take the first batch of them back to Myanmar, from where some 700,000 have fled since August last year. But hundreds…
The violence ended at a kosher market where three bystanders were slain. The mayor said the shooters had “targeted the location.”“Our officers were under fire for hours,” said the Jersey City police chief, Michael Kelly.Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York TimesDec. 10, 2019The shooting began outside a cemetery in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday when…
The wounded tried to crawl away or lie still, while others ran or crouched behind the dead, but the gunman kept pulling the trigger. He shot fleeing women and girls, and pumped bullet after bullet into piles of motionless men and boys in a house of worship. The man accused of carrying out the worst…
President Donald Trump announced that the US would delay the increase of tariffs on Chinese goods as talks to end the trade war between the world's two largest economies continue. "I am pleased to report that the U.S. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China on important structural issues including intellectual property…
And many, including the president himself, have turned their ire on Mr. Kelly for vouching for Mr. Porter’s character and falsely asserting that he had moved aggressively to oust him once his misdeeds were discovered. For all the turmoil, Mr. Trump on Friday warmly praised Mr. Porter, saying it was a “tough time” for his…
Police arrested Divyesh Darji, an alleged leader of BitConnect—a sketchy, now-defunct Bitcoin trading operation blasted by critics as a Ponzi scheme—at Delhi airport on Saturday, according to local news reports. He had arrived on a flight from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where he was based. The arrest comes seven months after BitConnect abruptly…