Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now one of the continent’s most revered authors. But two decades earlier, he was sent to prison without trial for speaking out about the civil war in his native Nigeria. While in solitary confinement he scrawled notes and poems using meat bones, ...
Some of the country’s most notorious cold cases could be solved with the help of an artificial intelligence tool that can do 81 years of detective work in just 30 hours. Avon and Somerset Police are trialling the technology which can identify potential leads that may not have been found during a manual trawl of the evidence. The Soze tool ...
TikTok has said it’s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for “engaging in covert influence operations”. It’s part of the site’s efforts to prevent disinformation in the run up to November’s US presidential election. Accounts affected are those from media group Rossiya Segodnya, which owns the RIA Novosti and Sputnik news services; and TV-Novosti, the parent body of the ...
There is vanishingly little doubt that Project 2025 has become one of the most unpopular political programs or ideas in recent history. The question is increasingly how much voters intend to hang that millstone around Donald Trump’s neck. A new NBC News poll Sunday is the latest to show that Project 2025, a detailed policy plan put together by a ...
One of the central characteristics of the 2024 presidential election is its steadiness. That’s counterintuitive, certainly; rarely has any contest seen as much tumult as we’ve seen in the past several months. Attempts on Donald Trump’s life, President Joe Biden’s withdrawal, Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent. And the result is an election in which it’s impossible to predict who might ...
A key Republican state lawmaker said Monday he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, imperiling a last-ditch push by former president Donald Trump and his allies. “I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national ...
WILKESBORO, N.C. — His staff had just resigned en masse. His allies believed he would lose. His scandals now threatened to drag down his whole party in the critical state of North Carolina. But Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson plowed ahead with his Monday visit to a bakery, insisting to a small crowd of journalists and die-hard supporters that “we ...
To a Republican tuning in to NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was proposing no doubt made perfect sense: Instead of allocating some electoral college votes by congressional district, he argued, Nebraska should give all of the state’s electors to the person who wins the state. Who, in practice, would be the Republican nominee, ...
Things have been looking up for Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign for a while now — to the point that even Donald Trump’s former surefire issues of immigration, the economy and inflation aren’t looking quite so decisive. But if Democrats are wondering why she hasn’t taken a more consistent lead in the polls, they might want to take ...
Crime is perhaps the perfect issue on which unscrupulous politicians can focus. Americans perennially have a sense that crime is rising in the country, if not in their own neighborhoods. The lack of quality, real-time national data on crime makes it easy to cherry-pick specific, alarming incidents or to allege increases in crime that are hard to dismiss as invented. ...