A failed attempt to save Barnes & Noble sparked Noëlle Santos’ quest to open The Lit. Bar – an indie neighborhood bookstore
For more than two years, the Bronx borough of New York City – home to 1.5 million people – was without single general interest bookstore.
That has now changed, thanks to Noëlle Santos, who made it her years-long mission to bring an independent community bookstore to her native borough.
Continue reading...Saige Earley, who was found dead of a heroin overdose in a toilet stall at Syracuse airport, is the face of ‘real people’ devastated by the worst drug epidemic in American history
Saige Earley was gone in stages.
To her mother, Ellen, the 22-year-old grew increasingly detached within weeks of returning from the dentist with a fateful prescription for opioid painkillers. The young woman with long dark hair and a broad toothy smile was gone physically a few months later when she walked out on her young son and left Ellen wondering if her daughter was even alive.
Continue reading...Many Democrats believe the Mueller report gives ample justification to start impeachment proceedings – but others maintain it might help Trump
When special counsel Robert Mueller’s exhaustive report on Russian meddling in the US presidential election was released to the public earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Ireland. Her caucus was spread across the globe on congressional trips abroad or in their home districts, preparing for Easter or Passover.
After a two-week recess that provided ample time to read the 448-page report – a devastating portrait of a presidential campaign eager to accept help from a foreign adversary and president intent on using the power of his office to protect himself, his family and his allies – Democrats return to Washington divided as the fate of Donald Trump’s presidency shifts to Congress.
Continue reading...Destroyers William P Lawrence and Stethem transited through the waterway on Sunday as Pentagon ups the ante with Beijing
The US military has sent two navy warships through the Taiwan Strait as the Pentagon increases the frequency of movement through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China.
Sunday’s voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
Continue reading...A gunman has killed one person and wounded seven others after firing indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for barbecue cookouts on a street in Baltimore.
Authorities said the gunfire broke out shortly after 5pm on Sunday on a block in the Maryland city’s western district.
Continue reading...US border agency, which previously forced migrants to sleep under a bridge, says an influx of arrivals demands more shelter space
The US government has begun erecting tents close to the border with Mexico to house detained migrants – even as Donald Trump likened the treatment of undocumented families entering the US to “Disneyland” on Sunday.
Life at the foothills of the Franklin mountains in El Paso, Texas, has been rudely disrupted in the last few days by construction crews coming and going near the adjacent border patrol station.
Continue reading...The Detroit lawyer rose to fame after defying Republican president over warrantless wiretaps in the early 70s
Damon Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the US civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, has died. He was 96.
Keith died on Sunday in Detroit, the city where the prominent lawyer was appointed in 1967 to the US district court, according to the Swanson Funeral Home.
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