During most cases of rain during cricket matches, players are either not allowed on to the pitch to play, or are taken off if a game is ongoing. An exception to this is if it is raining lightly and the on-field umpires feel the conditions are not unsafe to play in. Cricket is not played...
We haven’t had one of these stories in a while. And thank God, because when they happen, they can be a doozy. It sure is looking as if this one has the potential to reach ‘doozy’ pretty quickly. On the morning of May 26, a 600-foot-long car carrier named the Morning Midas departed Yantai, China,...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation On the morning of May 6, I walked the dust-choked path to al-Sham Café — a café only in name. It’s just a sagging tent like the one I sleep in. Something no one would ever choose, unless life gave them no choice. The...
The Free Press just published an interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book “Original Sin.” There have been a lot of these interviews at this point so there aren’t really any brand new additions to the big picture here, but I do think that Bari Weiss, more than some interviewers, focused in...
Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that Elon Musk is frustrated by the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and he clearly is. But as soon as I wrote that, Elon announced that his time as a special government employee was coming to an end, and the media started writing these stupid “Elon Musk” is leaving DOGE because...
The DNC cited a procedural concern, but Hogg said it is “impossible to ignore the broader context” of his criticisms. A Democratic National Committee (DNC) panel voted on Monday to void the result of a vote electing David Hogg as vice chair of the party after the young Democrat criticized the party for being “asleep...
Part of the Series Covering Climate Now This article by ExxonKnews is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Less than a day after the Trump administration filed a lawsuit aiming to stop Hawaiʻi from taking oil companies to court for their role in the climate crisis, the state last...
Democratic leadership has been largely silent when it comes to the administration’s detention of the Maryland man. A Maryland senator has vowed to travel to El Salvador in attempts to negotiate the release of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García as El Salvador’s president and the Trump administration are seemingly working in tandem to defy court...
I once had a point, or should I say, it once had me … One could come up with a number of good arguments against tariffs. Chris Matthews did not choose well among them. Earlier today, the MSNBC commentator complained that American construction companies would lose access to … Canadian wood? Indeed, Matthews chose this...
In recent weeks, hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. have received emails from the Department of State informing them that they must leave the country. This “catch and revoke” program is being used to cancel the visas of students who have participated in forms of pro-Palestinian activism the government doesn’t approve of, which may...