Olympic and world sprint cycling champion Kristina Vogel has revealed she has been left paralysed from the waist down after a crash ... "It's s***, there's no other way to put it ... ....
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIf and when journalist and historian Thomas Frank ever writes a sequel to “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” in addition to explaining how and why working-class and poor Americans in the heartland voted for a party that advanced policies benefiting wealthy individuals and corporations, he’ll have to include the dire consequences ... all that funny ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....
Protesters set the Iranian consulate on fire in the fifth day of violent protests in the southern city of Basra in Iraq on Friday, according to Al Jazeera. The protesters decried local corruption and a lack of basic services as hundreds gathered in the streets of the Shia Muslim-majority city, decrying the influence of Iran on Iraqi politics... ... 3 ... Reuters said the crowd chanted ... ... "Nobody [here] is a vandal ... ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who attempted to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, was sentencing to 14 days in prison, 12 months of supervised release, 200 hours of community service, and a fine of $9,500 for lying to the FBI about his contacts with foreign nationals during the campaign on Friday, according to CBSNews... ... ... "I see Papadopoulos today ... ....
PresidentDonald Trump clearly had the recent anonymous op-ed published in The New York Times on his mind during his Montana rally to support Senate candidate MattRosendale, who's challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, as warned supporters if he was impeached, "it's your fault, 'cause you didn't go out to vote," according to CNN. Trump also took time to rail against those Democrats, such as Rep ... "Very important thing ... ... We won by a lot....
Hurricane Florence’s wrath forced a cruise line to switch its destination from Bermuda to various northern locations in Canada, drawing the ire of passengers who paid for a tropical vacation, Newsweek reports.Norwegian Cruise Line announced on Twitter that the ship, Norwegian Dawn, which departed on schedule on Friday from Boston would no longer sail to its original destination of Bermuda because of Hurricane Florence....
Mac Miller, the troubled rapper who won fans with his retro hip-hop but generated uncomfortable attention with songs on ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande and Donald Trump, died Friday at age 26, reports said. Celebrity news site TMZ said that Miller was found dead from an apparent overdose in his Los Angeles-area home and US Weekly said it also confirmed his death ... He told Rolling Stone at the time. “Have I done drugs? Yeah ... AFP. Loading ... ....
General NewsCoinbase is looking to create a crypto ETF with the help of BlackRock. Business Insider reports that Coinbase has reportedly “held conversations” with the $6 trillion asset manager.ConsenSys has partnered with online education platform Coursera to offer a blockchain technology course, titled “Blockchain ...Post Oak Motor Cars is owned by Houston Rockets billionaire, Tilman Fertitta....
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe said the death toll on the Japanese island of Hokkaido had doubled to at least 16 on Friday morning while half the island's 5.3 million residents remain without power after the early morning 6.7-magnitude quake struck on Thursday, according to The Japan Times...Disaster management authorities said another 26 people were reported missing ... ... shut off its fossil fuel-fired power plants as a precaution....
Mexican investigators announced on Friday they discovered a mass grave in the state of Veracruz, one of the largest burial areas found in Mexico so far with at least 166 skulls, according to The Guardian. The Gulf state's prosecutor Jorge Winckler said for security reasons they would not reveal the location of the site since investigators were still at work ... Winckler did not rule out finding more bodies ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody. ....
Richard Sackler, part of the pharmaceutical dynasty which owns Purdue Pharma, the company facing many lawsuits for its role in helping cause the opioid epidemic through its marking of the painkiller OxyContin, could also stand to profit from one of the solutions of the crisis after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts on Friday, according to Financial Times... “There remains a need for other . . abuse-resistant dosage forms.” ... ....
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sipping an iced tea, Ongerung Kambes Kesolei sits at a veranda bar overlooking a hotel pool, under fans that slowly push humid air around on a quiet Sunday afternoon ... “They want to weaken Tsai Ing-wen and that’s where Palau comes into play,” said Kesolei, the editor of one of Palau’s two newspapers ... Map of Palau ... ‘The governments are having a fight’ ... Twitter ... The impact of the ban on Palau has been stark....
Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of Germany's far-left Die Linke party, has launched a new movement, CNN reports. It is called Aufstehen (literally translated, "stand up"). This in itself is not exceptional. Many other countries in Western Europe have left-wing parties of varying extremes, such as the Dutch LinksGroen, the DanishEnhedslisten and Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party in the United Kingdom... Germany is unlikely to go the same way....
French DefenseMinisterFlorenceParly said Russia had attempted to intercept transmissions from a satellite used by both the French and Italian military for secure transmissions on Friday, according to Reuters ...The French minister said "this little Star Wars" amounted to "an act of espionage" along with being "unfriendly." ... “Attempting to listen to your neighbors is not only unfriendly, it’s an act of espionage." ... “We are in danger....