Thousands of opposition supporters filled the street outside Georgia’s national parliament building Sunday to protest municipal election results that gave the country's ruling party a near-sweep. Candidates of the Georgian Dream party won 19 of the 20 municipal elections in runoff votes on Saturday, including the mayoral offices in the country’s five largest cities: Tbilisi,…
Month: October 2021
A Delta passenger was arrested after allegedly punching the person behind him over a seating dispute, Atlanta police say
A Delta flier traveling to LA from Atlanta became enraged after a man sitting behind him placed an item in a seat pocket, according to police. Read full article
The anchor-outs: San Francisco’s bohemian boat dwellers fight for their way of life
Since the 1950s, Marin county waters have been home to a community of mariners. Now local authorities say they have to leave Jeff Jacob Chase rows towards a friend’s boat in Richardson Bay in Sausalito, California. Photograph: Hardy Wilson/The Guardian For decades, a group known as the “anchor-outs” enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence in a…
Jan. 6 ‘Influencer’ Who Said She’s ‘Definitely Not Going To Jail’ Should Go To Jail, Feds Say
Jenna Ryan, a Trump-loving real estate broker, called Jan. 6 “one of the best days of my life” and bragged that she wouldn't go to jail because she's white. Read full article
Popeyes branch in Washington, DC shut down after a TikTok video appeared to show its kitchen infested with rats
A TikTok video featured rats running around what appeared to be a Popeyes kitchen. It was posted by a man claiming to be a courier for the chain. Read full article
Want to hear something really scary? We’re living through the death of democracy, but thankfully there’s a solution.
America's democratic norms are slowly being eroded. Unless Democrats do something to stop this autocratic power grab, we're all screwed. Read full article
Kal Penn on his memoir, “You Can’t Be Serious”
How actor Kal Penn, the self-described “skinny Brown kid from New Jersey,” became a star in the comedy “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” is as improbable a Hollywood story as was his leaving acting to work in the Obama White House. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Penn about confounding the expectations of his…
California urbanites flocking to remote deserts spark ‘culture clash’ with locals
Once a hamlet for cowboys and homesteaders, the Morongo Basin is undergoing rapid change amid an influx of urbanites seeking to escape city life. Read full article
Police: 1 killed, 9 wounded at Halloween party in Texas
According to police, one man died and nine other people were wounded in a shooting at a Halloween party in Texarkana, Texas on Saturday. Police say that “at least a couple hundred people” were there. Read full article
Lap dances at Hazard homecoming: Don’t schools already have enough problems these days?
Linda Blackford: Schools are so confusing these days. Books about the civil rights movement, no. Lap dances with administrators, yes! Read full article