Ice skating club reels from US plane crash deaths
13 hours ago John Sudworth North America correspondent Getty Images No one at the Skating Club of Boston had any doubt that 13-year-old Jinna Han and 16-year-old Spencer Lane would…
Philadelphia plane crash: Medical jet with six on board crashes into neighbourhood
11 minutes ago Max Matza, Madeline Halpert & Christal Hayes BBC News A small medical transport plane crashed into several buildings in north-east Philadelphia on Friday evening, setting homes and…
Grammy Awards 2025: It’s another Beyoncé vs Taylor showdown
12 hours ago Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images The Grammys are music’s biggest night, both literally and figuratively. The ceremony, which takes place in LA on Sunday night, runs…
New York food bank receives 13,000 live salmon
An upstate New York salmon farm facing closure donated 13,000 live fish to a local food bank. With a tight deadline, volunteers and staff worked rapidly to capture, process, and…
US famine monitor offline amid Trump funding freeze
The United States’ system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump’s order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance. The Famine Early…
Migrant Vendors Park Carts as Their American Dreams Slip Away | naked capitalism
Yves here. Many readers pointed out that going after employers of undocumented migrant workers would be a way to tackle one of the underlying objections to “illegals”: that these businesses…
Book Bans | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post, in analytical value, falls into the “History never repeats itself but it rhymes” category. It looks at a book ban campaign in China to see its…
Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration Between U.S. and Mexico
When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of trade across the border with Mexico. Now, nearly a billion…
‘The Interview’: Dr. Anna Lembke Is Scared About What Modern Life Is Doing to Us
We live at a time when everything is available at every moment. Just on your phone, you can order lunch, bet on sports, read this story, watch porn, chat with…
One Family Lost in the Plane Crash
The young Chinese couple had put in place nearly all the building blocks for a successful new life in America: graduate degrees, a tight-knit community of friends and promising careers.…