The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is preparing to award its black community a $105m (£73.8m) reparations package to address the harms caused by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the largest and most violent racial attacks in US history. The plan, by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa’s first black mayor, focuses on community redevelopment and...
For the last several years, the United States has undergone a migration pattern based on political preferences. It began when the pandemic produced significantly different public-policy responses by red and blue states, and accelerated until mortgage rates finally returned to historic norms. The Wall Street Journal became one of the first media outlets to take...
Remember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian city of Kobane from Isis? They risk being wiped out by Nato. The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in Northeast Syria, which includes Kobane, faces invasion. A Nato army is amassing on the border, marshaling all the overwhelming firepower and high-tech equipment that only...
Donald Trump is going to “make America’s showers great again” by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says. The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall. This served “a radical green...
In a statement, Ineos said “The agreement that had been reached with Athena would have allowed both parties to compete in the next Cup, but it depended on a rapid resolution. “Ineos Britannia had agreed the substantive terms very quickly, but Athena failed to bring the agreement to a timely conclusion. “Ineos Britannia is of...