Nineteen million Chileans will head to the polls on Sunday to vote in one of the most polarizing and dramatic presidential elections Latin America has seen in recent times. After years of protests against inequality and the ongoing constitutional assembly as a backdrop, this election will mark a major shift …
Read More »American Airlines passengers suffer frightful Halloween weekend with 1,700 flights canceled since Friday amid staffing woes
Sunday’s cancellations equated to about 30% of American Airlines’ scheduled flights for the day, according to data from tracking service Flightware.com. A further 269 flights were delayed as of around midafternoon, following 435 such scheduling breakdowns on Saturday. To put American’s latest disruptions in perspective, the second-biggest US airline, Delta, …
Read More »Comedian Norm Macdonald of SNL ‘Weekend Update’ fame dies of cancer at 61
“He was most proud of his comedy,” his longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra told Deadline. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, …
Read More »Post-riot fence to return to US Capitol ahead of weekend rally for January 6 prisoners
Capitol Police briefed Congress on the return of the fence on Monday, confirming it was indeed coming back and promising the legislators would be spared the chaos of eight months previous. “The fence will go up a day or two before, and if everything goes well it will come down …
Read More »A trans woman became Miss Nevada at the weekend. Well, it’s high time us blokes gave this beauty pageant caper a try
Awesome. I’ve got my make-up bag, a nice frock and a big roll of gaffer tape, so I’m good to go. Call me weird, abnormal. But it has literally never been my ambition to win a beauty pageant. Plus, well, I always thought maybe it was a closed shop to …
Read More »HUGE anti-lockdown protest hits London, as city braces for weekend of demonstrations (VIDEO)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent decision to push back the UK’s reopening until later next month was an unpopular one, and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday to show their discontent. Starting out from Hyde Park, throngs of people marched through the centre of the …
Read More »‘Enjoy the long weekend’: Kamala Harris honors veterans after taking heat for ‘disrespectful’ Memorial Day tweet
“Enjoy the long weekend,” Harris tweeted on Saturday. The four words and accompanying smiling photo were enough to propel the vice president to the trending charts on social media, as critics blasted her for not acknowledging the true meaning of the holiday. “Is this intended to insult the memory of …
Read More »Will Memorial Day weekend box office top the anticipated $100 million? RT’s Boom Bust wants to know
RT’s Boom Bust is joined by senior media analyst at Comscore, Paul Dergarabedian, to take a look at how this summer movie season is expected to fare. The expert compared a major comeback for the movie theaters on the 2021 Memorial Day weekend to the recovery of the travel industry …
Read More »Five injured in Shreveport shooting, two critically, in fifth such incident in US at the weekend
Late on Sunday evening, shots were fired in the city, with media outlets reporting that five individuals had shown up at local hospitals with injuries. KTBS 3 News says two of the victims are in a critical condition, one having been shot in the head. In an interview with local …
Read More »Myanmar protesters refuse to give up mass rallies after bloodiest weekend since coup (VIDEOS)
The civil unrest continued across Myanmar into Monday, with thousands protesting the February 1 coup, as well as mourning the victims of the violence. Some 114 people were reportedly killed and dozens more injured over the weekend – the bloodiest since the beginning of the protests and the military crackdown …
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