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Bolt insisted this would be the final individual race of his storied career – his swan song. This is why everyone was so anxious for him to go out on a high note. Alas: Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt finished third in the men’s 100 meters in 9.95 seconds at the IAAF World Championships in London… Read more.
Venezuela’s controversial new assembly has opened despite fierce opposition at home and abroad. President Nicolás Maduro says the constituent assembly is needed to bring peace after months of crisis. But the opposition says the new body, which has the ability to rewrite the constitution, is a way for the president to cling to power. (BBC,… Read more.
Usain Bolt sparked unprecedented interest in this month’s IAAF World Championships when he announced it would be the last meet of his storied career. It also helped that sports commentators began hyping the showdown between the aging Bolt and upstart Andre De Grasse (of Canada) the way others hyped the showdown between the aging Sonny… Read more.
Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against climate change. This, notwithstanding that his crusade amounted to little more than a “Powerpoint presentation” of alarming weather projections, which he marketed as an apocalyptic thriller titled An Inconvenient Truth. But it was a blockbuster, and an Oscar winner to boot! Except that,… Read more.
Much has been made of the way Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled to get Donald Trump elected president of the United States. The prevailing view – in both Russia and the United States – was that a grateful or compromised Trump would do Putin’s bidding. The great expectation in this respect was that Trump would… Read more.
The Republicans’ ‘Seven-Year War’ to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears dead. Last night, three GOP senators bucked their party and president, siding with Democrats to vote down a last-minute effort to repeal portions of the law. … After this, it seems unlikely that Republicans will revive their legislative campaign against Obamacare. (Washington Post, July… Read more.
Angelina Jolie is opening up about her difficult year, from a Bell’s Palsy diagnosis to her split from Brad. In a Vanity Fair cover story, Jolie reveals that in addition to high blood pressure, she developed Bell’s Palsy, a condition resulting from damage to facial nerves, which caused one side of her face to droop. (USA… Read more.
The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government… Read more.
Donald Trump assured the world that the only thing needed for peace in the Middle East was his ability to broker a deal and his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s ability to manage it. He did it not only as political schtick throughout the campaign but even as government policy during the early days of his presidency.… Read more.
That, of course, is the gene that causes their “biological” children to be born all-white. Fans got a first glimpse of Janet Jackson’s baby boy, Eissa, via the pop star’s website and social media on Friday. ‘My baby and me after nap time,’ Jackson wrote in the photo she shared that shows her hugging Eissa… Read more.
