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With violent crime on the rise, the Democratic Party fears it may start paying a political price for supporting last year’s massive street protests that saw Black Lives Matter and Antifa demonstrators loot and torch a billion-dollar swath of destruction from sea to shining sea following the killing of George …

Heading into the Tokyo Games, Biles was a dead cert to add to her haul of four Olympic gold medals and was staring at a clutch of records that would burnish her claims as the greatest her sport has ever seen. Instead, the shock factor of what happened during the all-round artistic …

Superficially, change is afoot. If the proposed coalition secures parliamentary support in the coming days, then Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party will be out of power. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister – 12 straight years in office and 15 in total – since the inception of the Israeli …

Having served as France’s ambassador to the US, Israel, and the United Nations before his retirement in 2019, Araud likely knows a thing or two about reading the room. However, a quip he made on Twitter on Saturday went down like a lead balloon. “The difference between a lady and …

On Thursday, China sent the core module of its first-ever space station, the Tianhe – or ‘Harmony of the Heavens’ – up into orbit. It’s long been under development, and marks a huge breakthrough in the country’s space program.  A series of follow-up missions will seek to assemble the new …

Spring is here, and vaccine fever is in full swing. My social media is flooded with selfies of people proudly displaying their vaccine cards – the post-pandemic version of engagement photos, it would seem. Friends sometimes text me joyously to tell me they’ve received their second shot, and then doggedly …

‘When I were a lad…’ as the old saying goes, my mates and I would try to sneak into the pubs underage or, when that inevitably failed, just sit on the swings down the park necking cheap cider.  How to look cool with a cigarette was of pressing concern too …

That’s according to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who noted that trade is being gradually transitioned away from the traditionally favored reserve currencies towards the domestic denominations of the countries involved in bilateral deals. “Russia is consistently moving away from dependence on the dollar,” he said, noting specific examples of …

So, what are we to make of a recently published alarmist report that claims that almost four out of 10 students are addicted to their smartphone? The authors of the report claim that smartphone addiction causes serious sleeping problems and can be both a symptom and cause of mental health …

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Forward writer Lev Golinkin unveiled a list of scores of monuments and streets across the US and Europe honoring “fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews” as indicative of a darker current running through supposedly tolerant societies. That most were erected in the last 20 years is …