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The Gold Cup is Concacaf’s Euros and Copa America equivalent. Sunday’s final against Mexico is the United States’ last competitive match before the World Cup, which explains the sense of urgency going into it. Pochettino’s side have experienced a promising campaign despite missing some key players. Their presence in the final reflects that progress. It […]
In the run-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, journalists covering the preparations for war became familiar with the concept of “stovepiping”. The term described the tactic of pushing intelligence to key political decision makers, bypassing checks and balances within the system. A more familiar word would be cherrypicking: in the case of the […]
American flags large and small filled the crowd of protesters at the “No Kings” march in Philadelphia, where demonstrators said they were fighting to protect their country and democracy. “We’re taking our flag back. We feel like Republicans have basically tried to take over the American flag and kind of use it as a weapon […]
Trump military parade live updates: D.C. onlookers line streets; ‘No Kings’ protests unfold nationwide NBC News Source link
On Sept. 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi experienced a “mostly peaceful” demonstration. As with all such protests, it was peaceful until it wasn’t — it became a riot, and a particularly heinous and destructive one. The mob attacked federal officers, including border-patrol agents, with rocks and Molotov cocktails. They burned cars. They smashed street […]
Rush Hour deserves to sit amongst the best buddy cop movies of all time, and that’s in great part due to the performances of lead actors Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The two stars are down-right fantastic together, and they share a number of great moments together in the franchise’s original 1998 installment. One such […]
Frontline report: Romania and the US just drew a red line as the Black Sea boils over Euromaidan Press Source link
I remember the line. It ran diagonal to the grain of the library’s hardwood floor. It escapes me whether the line was black paint or black electrical tape back in the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s tape today—scuffed and trodden upon, as though it were just some line to be stepped on that didn’t matter […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered the U.S. to halt his full-scale invasion of Ukraine along the current front line, the Financial Times (FT) reported on April 22, citing unnamed sources familiar with the talks. Putin reportedly conveyed the offer during a recent meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg. This could […]
A U.S. military plane gathered intelligence on Russian positions from within contested Black Sea airspace in the first such mission since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began nearly three years ago, flight records suggest. The move—first spotted on Wednesday by open-source intelligence analyst MeNMyRC—possibly signals a new and bolder approach by the