Posts by Amelia Frost
Do Elon Musk and His Father Get Along?
Errol Musk wants the world to know that he and his son Elon are actually on very good terms. “Always have been,” he said in an interview on Friday, just days after comments that he made calling Elon a bad parent went viral. On a recent episode of the Wide Awake podcast, Mr. Musk talked…
Read MoreMan Found Guilty Of Trying To Kill Salman Rushdie
An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the “Satanic Verses” author. Hadi Matar now faces up to 25 years in prison, and will be sentenced on April 23, a court official said in a statement…
Read MoreIt’s Been 5 Years Since Covid Hit. Do You Travel Differently Now?
Those dark days began almost five years ago. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, and four days later, U.S. states began to order shutdowns and travel restrictions. By the end of the month, the European Union had barred nonessential travel from outside the bloc, cruise ships were under a…
Read MoreHow Trump’s Tariffs Could Reorder Asia Trade and Exclude the U.S.
As President Trump uses tariffs as a weapon in his quest to even the score on trade with the world, Asia is emerging as target No. 1. And it’s not just because of China. Asia is home to seven countries that run the biggest trade surpluses with the United States, Mr. Trump’s go-to yardstick. It…
Read MoreWhy the Price of Gold Keeps Breaking Records
At his inauguration, President Trump said that “the golden age of America begins right now.” He was right, in one sense. The price of gold has been bursting through records in the first month of Mr. Trump’s second term, recently trading at more than $2,900 per troy ounce. It is up about 12 percent already…
Read MoreApple Says Halting Data Protection Tool For UK Users
Apple said on Friday it was ending full end-to-end encryption for British customers and iPhone users, following US media reports the UK government had asked for global data access. “Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this…
Read MoreAmazon Gains Creative Control Over the James Bond Franchise
The family that has steered the James Bond franchise for more than 60 years, zealously protecting the superspy from the indignities of Hollywood strip mining, has agreed to relinquish control to Amazon. The deal, which was announced Thursday morning, comes after a behind-the-scenes standoff between Barbara Broccoli, who inherited control of Bond from her father,…
Read MoreM23 Advances Deeper In East DRC As Congolese Troops Flee
M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo’s volatile east as international pressure mounted on Rwanda to stop backing the armed group and halt the fighting. The M23 — which is supported by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers according to UN experts — took control of the South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu…
Read MoreFrance Far-right Leader Cancels US Speech After ‘Nazi Gesture’ By Ex-Trump Aide
France’s far-right leader Jordan Bardella said Friday he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a “gesture alluding to Nazi ideology” by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon. The president of France’s National Rally (RN) party, who is in the US capital, said he was not present when Bannon — one of the…
Read MoreHow A ‘Forgotten’ Minnesota Monastery Inspired ‘The Brutalist’
On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. A concrete trapezoid banner encasing a bell tower looms over a giant, beehive-shaped front window composed of hundreds of gently shimmering hexagons. For half a century, the existence of this modernist masterpiece has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there,…
Read MoreGerman Far Left In Surprise Comeback Ahead Of Election
Germany’s far-left Die Linke party has enjoyed a late poll surge ahead of Sunday’s elections, boosted by a spirited anti-fascist speech by its new rising star that quickly went viral. “I say to everyone out there: don’t give up, fight back, resist fascism,” Heidi Reichinnek said in a recent parliament speech against the far-right Alternative…
Read MoreDaughter Of British IS Victim Reads Last Texts To Him At France Trial
The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive from…
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