Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE The news that Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand — the third-highest official in the Justice Department — is resigning after a little less than nine months in office to take a position with Walmart set off a double-barreled firestorm on social media Friday night. While […]
Daily Archives: February 10, 2018
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The number of norovirus infections have doubled in the run up to the Winter Olympics 2018, with hundreds suffering from painful bouts of diarrhoea and projectile vomiting. As many as 128 cases have been confirmed by the Olympics organising committee on Thursday and more than 1,2000 people have been quarantined. […]
German officials believe Brussels will have their sights on the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) city of Wuppertal, which has received considerable cash from the bloc in recent years, as the EU attempts to salvage the money lost from the UK. The European Commission is understood to be considering cancelling the Structural […]
Arsenal face Tottenham in the first of today’s Premier League games and the weekend’s biggest fixture. Spurs could go seven points clear of their North London rivals with a win, while victory for the Gunners would close the gap in fifth to just one point. All eyes will be on […]
This is by far two of the fastest minutes of my life. My heart is pounding. My forehead and palms are sweating as I go through the same training exercise the US women’s ski team uses to prepare for the Jeongseon ski course, site of the competition for this year’s […]
As the midterm elections approach, a small army of organizers will be answering calls and knocking on doors in hotly contested districts around the country with a simple question: Do you have what you need to vote? Plenty of groups, including the ACLU, have used the judicial system to take […]
The Hollywood actor passed away on Friday morning, aged 86, after battling leukaemia. Gavin is best know for playing Julius Caesar opposite Kirk Douglas in Spartacus and the role of Sam Loomis in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Aside from acting he had a short spell in politics, being the US ambassador […]
There are no sure things in the unforgiving world of alpine skiing, where the margins are infinitesimal, the variables many and the most innocuous of mistakes can mean the difference between first place and disaster. That’s doubly true at the Olympics, which over the years have been a graveyard of […]