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Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Cafes and bars in Beijing’s university district have reportedly been ordered to cater to no more than 10 foreigners at a time. Staff members say the orders were given last week, shortly after China’s annual legislative meeting began in Beijing. It’s unknown what prompted the orders, but the rise of anti-Xi Jinping […]
Timothy D. Easley/AP In deep-red Kentucky, Democrat Linda Belcher sailed to victory in the state’s 49th House District seat with 68% of the vote on Tuesday. Belcher’s win marked an 86-point swing from the 2016 general election, when President Donald Trump won the district with 72% of the vote. This is the 37th state legislative seat […]
Voters in a Pennsylvania House district have nicknamed the shape of their congressional boundary “Goofy kicking Donald Duck.” The state’s district maps, including the strangely shaped 7th district, were ruled unconstitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court earlier this week. The court ruled the maps gave Republicans an unfair advantage. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on […]
Every city has its own red-light district, but Amsterdam’s is the largest and most popular, brimming with sexy (and sleazy), boozy, and cannabis-filled good times. In 1979, New York City artists Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller captured the raucous parties happening in the capital district. Broke and armed with Polaroid cameras, the artists decided […]
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Even the weather in Hart, north-east Hampshire, is better according to the Halifax annual quality of life survey. The region, centred around the town of Fleet, is described as “a step back in time”. It has 84 square miles of woodland and the county’s largest freshwater lake. Residents of the area enjoy better health, longer […]
Courtesy of Cathie Berrey-Green/BG Productions Photos & Video Civil-rights attorney Larry Krasner won the race for Philadelphia’s district attorney on in a blowout. Krasner’s big victory can be traced to massive canvassing and get-out-the-vote operations by local activists and organizers. Many of Philadelphia’s progressive organizations formed a coalition after the election of President Donald Trump […]
Manhattan District Attorney Cyprus Vance reportedly plans to pursue an indictment against Harvey Weinstein as early as next week NYPD investigators said on Friday that they were gathering “credible” evidence of rape by Weinstein and may seek an arrest warrant. Weinstein allegedly hired private security companies to investigate and cover up sexual-harassment allegations against him Manhattan District […]
Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider Civil rights attorney Larry Krasner won the Philadelphia district attorney’s race Tuesday in a blowout. Krasner says the race shows why local elections are so important. He argues that local officials hold incredible power over people’s day-to-day lives and can push reform “upward” to the national level. The Philadelphia district attorney race […]
Paddling our canoes through the cool morning mist, we spot Wild Cat Island in the distance, a rocky wooded nubbin emerging from the hazy lake and immediately pick up pace to beat the Amazons. On our lengthy drive north from Sussex, I educate my children; 11-year old twins, Nancy and Lola, and Angus, 15, on […]
