“If only we could get individual articles with micropayments rather than subscribing,” people here have been saying for years. Yet whenever anyone actually does that, it ends like this (because you don’t actually pay)

A map of US time zones

As Geoffrey York reports, the Yale School of Health has concluded that Sudan's RSF (aka Janjaweed) is engaging in the same sort of mass atrocities, including the razing of villages, that characterized the 2004 Darfur slaughter, often called a genocide.

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Not the chopping-off-your-fingers problem or the brakes-not-working problem or the decapitating-you-by-driving-under-a-truck problem or the bursting-into-flames problem or the not-being-a-real-truck problem, but…

Normally I’m all for giving a light treatment to heavy news, but not sure the Daily Beast got the mood right on this one

Talk to Chinese citizens, and they’ll frequently tell you that the match is fixed. On this occasion, not at all metaphorically

I'll take 'Things GenXers Never Thought Would Happen' for $600, Alex.

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The winner from the comments is “Chomps Élysées”

Once you've lost the cannibal vote, you're just, er, eating into your own base

According to #Iran media & sources:

- Drones, not missiles
- No target hit on ground
- Air defense worked
- All normal on the ground
- Supreme National Security Council currently meeting
- #IRGC air defense on alert
- Airspace largely closed, air traffic grounded
- #Tabriz fine.

*Netanyahu* is a strategic liability for the United States

Shortly after Canadians learn what the Chinese embassy actually does, the…

And there we have it

Aida Shakarami, the older sister of the slain 16-year-old Iranian protester Nika Shakarami, was arrested in Tehran yesterday by the Islamic Republic's “morality” police for not wearing the hijab.
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Argentina somehow combines two technological bad ideas into one very bad idea