As of this recording, lawmakers are still chaotically rushing to avoid a government shutdown. And one thing is already clear from this fiasco: Donald Trump will betray his voters very, very badly. Trump and Elon Musk killed a compromise bill, demanding deep spending cuts that would inflict real harm on Trump country, portending a lot more like this to come. (After we recorded, the House voted down the second government funding bill House Republicans advanced.) We chatted with Paul Waldman, author... Читать дальше...
For one man, a tenancies officer disallowed his eviction, but not before the landlord had cleared out his Halifax apartment and started renovating.
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Mitchell has seemingly made good use of his NBA Cup “bye week.”
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Liam Lawson was promoted to Red Bull's 2025 driver line-up on Thursday following Sergio Perez's departure, leaving a free seat at their sister team, Racing Bulls
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates.
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James Stewart got hooked on heroin in 1987.
Life was a party then. He was in his early 20s, playing basketball and hustling drugs on the West Side. He experimented with cough syrup and other drugs. And he tried heroin.
His body started to change. He was addicted. Soon, the party was over. And people he knew kept overdosing.
“They’ve been dying along the way,” says Stewart, who’s 60.
Stewart says he was using heroin to keep from feeling sick — even as he held down a job loading freight trains. Читать дальше...
For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.
Patients are protesting, bipartisan lawmakers are threatening regulation – and investors are selling their shares.
Once upon a time, Republicans spoke of free trade in glowing terms. With his constant threats of tariffs and a history of implementing them, President-elect Donald Trump has flipped that on its head.
How can you outsmart scammers? What would you do if your friend was attacked by a wild cougar? NPR readers wanted to know the answers to those questions and more in 2024.
Nearly a dozen families learned from NBC News that their relative’s body was sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center for medical research.
A major report released this week found that compared with abstaining from alcohol, moderate drinking was linked to a lower risk of death from any cause and a lower risk of death from heart disease, but it was also linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.
Kerry Washington stars in 'Six Triple Eight' about Women Army Corps’ 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, who took on a herculean task during World War II.
MacKenzie Scott recently announced $2 billion of grants to 199 nonprofits. Her approach provides lessons for billionaires and everyday donors alike.
Great leaders understand that success isn’t achieved in isolation—it’s built on the foundation of strong, meaningful relationships.
Zoe Saldaña, who is currently enjoying a high-profile awards season for her performance in Emilia Pérez, will be honoured with the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards in February, 2025. The actress is the second recipient of the award created in the memory of film critic Derek Malcolm, who […]
People are always on a journey in the films of Walter Salles. His 1998 breakout film Central Station saw an abandoned nine-year-old go looking for the father he’s never known, while 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries had a carefree young Che Guevara becoming radicalized while searching for the soul of South America. More literally, there’s On […]
Shell secured the Nigerian government’s approval of a major asset sale in the country by committing to a fresh large-scale investment in the Bonga North field, the Financial Times reported today, citing unnamed sources familiar with both deals. The Anglo-Dutch supermajor approved the Bong North deepwater project at the start of this week, with reports putting the total investment in the field at some $5 billion. Bonga North currently has an estimated recoverable resource volume of more than 300 million... Читать дальше...
Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, December 20th
