The ISIS 'Beatles' admit torturing US hostage James Foley

An ISIS 'Beatle' has for the first time admitted to torturing US hostage James Foley in an ISIS prison alongside 'scared' Kayla Mueller. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are both in U.S. military custody in Iraq, have given new details about the captivity of Western hostages in Syria, …...Read More

Spain COULD be suffering a second wave of coronavirus, say health chiefs

France has today told its citizens not to travel to Catalonia amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus cases in Spain that could start to affect British holidaymakers if it is cut off from the rest of Europe. Norway has also re-imposed quarantine rules for people arriving from Spain …...Read More

A Climate Plan in Texas Focuses on Minorities. Not Everyone Likes It.

After Democrats took control of the commission, they eventually decided to rank projects based in part on the “social vulnerability” of the communities they protected — an index created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that reflects what share of residents are minorities, can’t speak English, lack …...Read More

Routine Beatings of Inmates in Alabama Prisons Go Ignored, U.S. Says

One prisoner who died had intracranial bleeding, nose and eye socket fractures and six teeth knocked out. Corrections officers who had brutalized him said he fell from a bunk bed. Another inmate defecated on himself after a guard struck him 19 times with a baton, even though he was handcuffed. …...Read More

The Doctor From Nazi Germany and the Roots of the Hunt for Life on Mars

A few years after Dr. Strughold started at the Air Force, he published “Life on Mars in View of Physiological Principles.” Two years later, in 1953, he wrote “The Green and Red Planet,” scientifically coining the term “astrobiology” and considering whether a low-pressure chamber — a shrunken version of those …...Read More

The Star of This $70 Million Sci-Fi Film Is a Robot

Helderman, whose company’s credits include the 2017 Netflix movie “To the Bone,” said the film had a dime-a-dozen sci-fi plot that wouldn’t have made it on his radar if it hadn’t been for the star. (In addition to BondIt, the Belgium-based Happy Moon Productions and Ten Ten Global Media in …...Read More

How One of America’s Whitest Cities Became the Center of B.L.M. Protests

“Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho.” “I’m here right now because the feds are here, and that’s terrifying to me as a citizen.” President Trump’s deployment of federal agents is …...Read More

How to Dress for the Protest

The Diary Project How to Dress for the Protest “On a daily basis I think about what I’m wearing.”...Read More

Inside the glamorous lives of London's crazy rich Russians

The release of the long-awaited Russia report this week revealed the grip the country has on the UK, from PR firms, charities, political interests, academia and cultural institutions. The Intelligence and Security Committee of MPs warned that 'Russian influence in the UK is the new normal', claiming that oligarchs and …...Read More

Toddler is caught swinging from the chandelier in her bedroom in hilarious nanny cam footage

This is the moment a shocked mother discovered one of her three-year-old daughters swinging on the chandelier in their bedroom. Footage captured on a nanny cam in Edgewater, Maryland, shows the girl hanging on the ceiling light while her twin sister watches. Little Elise hangs off the chandelier and spins …...Read More