Celebrity Life
U.S. Bobsledder Tests Positive for COVID-19 at Beijing Olympics
The first U.S. Olympic athlete to test positive for COVID-19 in Beijing is bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor. She's also a new mother, who brought her nearly two-year-old son along with her.
Athletes and Coaches Are Testing Positive at Higher Rates Than Others Arriving for Beijing Olympics
Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving for the Beijing Olympics
Sanctions Won’t Hurt Myanmar’s Brutal Leaders, Activists Say. Here’s What Could
Activists and Myanmar watchers say that targeted sanctions will do little to deter the brutal military junta, or stop its violent repression.
Haitian-Americans Say Biden Is Turning His Back on a Country He Promised to Help
It takes a lot to faze Marleine Bastien. After growing up under the brutal dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, she left Port-au-Prince for Miami in 1981. The 62-year-old thought she had seen it all in her four decades working with the city’s Haitian community as a social worker and paralegal—until now. Every day, the…
Black History Lives in Memories and Minds. COVID-19 Has Endangered Those Traditions
The loss of American life is now measured in the hundreds of thousands. What was held in those minds is less easily tallied
Pregnant New Zealand Journalist Stranded in Afghanistan Will Finally Be Allowed to Return Home
The government offer amounted to a backdown by New Zealand after officials had earlier insisted that Charlotte Bellis needed to reapply for a spot in the country's bottlenecked quarantine hotels
Historically Black Universities Lock Down Over Series of Bomb Threats
The FBI and ATF are investigating the bomb scares, which came one day before the start of Black History Month
A COVID-Free Pacific Nation Opened Its Border a Crack. The Virus Came Rushing In
Kiribati is facing its first COVID-19 surge of the pandemic after letting in the first flight in 10 months
The New York Times Is Buying Wordle for More than $1 Million
It will initially remain free to new and existing players, the Times said, raising concerns it may eventually go behind a paywall.
Why Toni Morrison’s Books Are So Often the Target of Book Bans
In Florida’s Polk County, Nobel Literature Prize-winner Toni Morrison’s novels The Bluest Eye and Morrison’s Beloved were among 16 books “quarantined”—taken off shelves in public school libraries “so a thorough, thoughtful review of their content can take place,” a spokesperson explained to The Ledger—on Jan. 25 after a complaint. Less than a week earlier, a…
Why California Is Moving to Dismantle Nation’s Largest Death Row
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment.”…
The Best Way To Stop Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Can the West stop Putin from invading Ukraine? Yes, it’s possible if we understand why he’s doing it in the first place. Putin has been a dictator for over 20 years, and over that time Russia has faced a lot of problems—a stagnant economy, the most extreme wealth disparity of any major country, and endemic…