A bereaved mother who has “absolutely no idea” why her son took his own life aged 14 is fighting social media companies to hand over his search history. Jools Sweeney was found dead in April 2022. A coroner was unable to rule his death was a suicide as they were unable to prove he was in a “suicidal mood”, his ...
Nick Sarwark was worried. Ahead of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the then-chair of the Libertarian Party was increasingly concerned that a faction of his party supported white supremacy. Sarwark fired off a public letter saying racism didn’t belong in the party and asking others to join in his condemnation of fascism and of the ...
Imagine you are planning to run a few miles on a treadmill as part of your regular workout. You can do this with the treadmill in a level position, or you can set it at an incline. It isn’t hard to determine which would make for an easier session at the gym. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was “an international signal of distress” and indicated that it had been raised in response to a neighborhood dispute. Martha-Ann Alito made the comments when the reporter went to the couple’s Fairfax ...
Despite the intense focus the past couple of months on pro-Palestinian protests, many of which were championed by the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, the self-proclaimed progressive bloc has struggled to churn out victories at the ballot box. Oregon’s Democratic primary served up the latest example of this uphill fight, as the more traditional liberal wing won two contested ...
When President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in 2014, the Israeli leader lectured him about Gaza’s future, a Palestinian state and an Iranian nuclear deal in a tone that Obama found condescending and dismissive. After the meeting, an aide asked how it went. Netanyahu “peed on my leg,” Obama replied, according to two people ...
Chase Oliver, a candidate for the Georgia Senate election in 2022, won the presidential nomination late Sunday night for the Libertarian Party, the third-largest political party. The nomination came after seven rounds of voting over a long, contentious day as factions of the party feuded over the nomination and party leadership positions. After winning, Oliver promised to unify the party ...
Crude oil futures fell to three-month lows on Friday and are heading to a weekly loss as the summer driving season gets underway with the Memorial Day holiday. U.S. crude oil hit an intraday low of $76.15, the lowest level since Feb. 26. Global benchmark Brent fell to $80.65, the lowest level since Feb. 8. The two benchmarks are on ...
Angry that your favorite Red Lobster closed down? Wall Street wizardry had a lot to do with it. Red Lobster was America’s largest casual dining operation, serving 64 million customers a year in almost 600 locations across 44 states and Canada. Its May 19 bankruptcy filing and closing of almost 100 locations across the country has devastated its legion of ...
Will schools finally pay student-athletes? What a historic settlement means for the NCAA and players
Could college athletes really start getting paid directly by their schools, ending decades of acrimony over the issue? The NCAA, along with the five largest college athletic conferences, announced Thursday an agreement to settle three antitrust suits brought by college athletes over having been deprived of financial gain by only receiving scholarships in exchange for their play. Here’s how it ...