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National Geographic magazine. It’s 8:30 on a Saturday night in August. A gibbous moon hangs low in the sky, its glow no competition for the neon sign proclaiming GREYHOUND RACING and DERBY LANE. About 300 people are scattered in the grandstands here in St. Petersburg, Florida, that once held thousands, murmuring as loudspeakers play big band and rockabilly. They fall silent when Frederick Davis leads the parade of dogs. “TNT Sherlock,” says the announcer, calling for the first of the eigh...

The Senior Editor Trump is being tried before the US Senate, where many of the members are “fake people,” longtime Russian assets paid through accounts in the Cayman Islands.  Many of them are “cuckoos,” or “walkins.” Some senators are being threatened, not by militia types but by senior Federal officials from law enforcement related agencies.  It isn’t about Trump, it’s about closing the door on where a real investigation of Trump would lead, not just to Moscow but back here,...

Andy Garcia's "The Lost City" feels like the distillation of countless conversations and family legends, rehearsed from time immemorial by Cubans who fled their homeland and sought to re-create it in their memories. In every family such stories, repeated endlessly, can become tedious, but there is another sense in which they are a treasured ritual. There was a Cuba, remembered at firsthand only by those who are growing older now, that was a beloved place, and stopped existing when ...

A simple loaded question should have elicited a simple candid answer So, after barrages of insulting interruptions from his PRD colleagues, Juan Diego Vásquez, the independent from San Miguelito who got the most votes in that multi-member circuit, asked the health minister a simple question: Do you pay the Cuban doctors? At that point a recess was called. The question was never answered. From the minister, the Panamanian people did get a defense of why the Cubans were brought in. Actually, it ...

Let me tell you a story: What if Russia was helping Israel fight that war against Iran, but fight it inside Syria? What if Russia were feeding attack information, tactical intelligence on Iran and Syria and even Hezbollah to Israel and even the US? What if Russia, now that Biden is in, stands to make billions arming Iran with planes and other military technology, to stand against an Israel fully supported by Russia…against Iran? With up to 200,000 Duck Dynasty warriors armed to the teeth in A...

This live event features the salmon defender in conversation with coastal Indigenous leaders about our wild fish.
 Great Canadian Gaming CEO and president Rod Baker — or he was until he resigned Sunday — and his wife Ekaterina Baker have been charged with queue jumping after they flew to Whitehorse and then travelled to Beaver Creek, Yukon, where they misrepresented themselves in order to get early shots of the Moderna vaccine. What lessons can we draw from this incident? Signed, Dear Bet...

No, Karen. Bitcoin Wont Protect You From the IRS Posted January 21, 2021 Not a day goes by that I dont hear some variation of this: "Buy Bitcoin. The dollar is dead," or "Bitcoin is how we stop government overreach," or "Bitcoin is the key to free transactions," or, my absolute favorite, "Wanna tell the IRS to go screw itself? Buy Bitcoin." These, along with their infinite variations, make up the tapestry of misconceptions, half-truths, and bold-faced lies that characterize the publics understa...

These Are the 100 Worst Dramas of All Time By Molly Pennington, Stacker On 1/8/21 at 8:00 PM EST Showgirls and The Room, which is considered one of the greatest bad movies of all time. We also have films that aimed high with all-star casts and award fodder plot lines that crashed and burned, like Nora Ephrons madcap comedy Mixed Nuts, or ended up portentous and unwatchable, like Sean Penns save-the-refugees drama The Last Face. Major movie stars show up over and over again on our list of ...

2020 marked the 100th anniversary of Prohibition — a wild time when New England became a hotbed of illegal liquor By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,Updated December 30, 2020, 3:04 p.m. Email to a Friend Gangsters Ed Diamond, Jack Diamond, Fatty Walsh and Charles "Lucky" Luciano appear in this file photo that was taken in New York in the 1930s. During Prohibition criminals collaborated with gangs from other regions to establish shipping systems and set prices for bootlegged alcohol.Associated Pr...