Tag Archives: America

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering an apology from protesters in Hong Kong, the limits of the British Constitution and the hopes pinned on to two gay penguins in Germany. Hong Kong protesters apologize Antigovernment demonstrators apologized on Wednesday for their increasingly …

The second anniversary of the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a time to reflect on what Heather Heyer’s death should have meant to America.  When 32 year-old Heyer fell victim to racist violence, losing her life while protesting against hate, there should have been a consensus that this …

There are too many f**king guns in America,” says Corey Taylor. “I could walk outside right now and find a gun within minutes. There’s a very toxic gun culture here, it’s a cult, and it worries me.” Two days after the Slipknot frontman says this, a man walks into a …

Warning: the story below contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. The directors of Avengers: Endgame have addressed a confusing plot hole regarding Captain America’s travels through time. Joe and Anthony Russo, who co-directed the Marvel film, answered fan questions during a Reddit AMA on Wednesday. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From …

Wesley Snipes is set to join Eddie Murphy for the Coming to America sequel. The original 1988 film saw Murphy play a wealthy African prince who came to America in search of love, fearful that those in his home country of Zamunda were attracted to his money. Blade actor Snipes, …

One travelled two hours to attack a black church, the other drove ten hours to open fire in a supermarket he knew he would be full of hispanics and Mexicans. One used a semi-automatic pistol, the other a semi-automatic rifle. Both posted racist screeds online, claiming people of colour were …

Lana Del Rey has released a new song in response to the spate of mass shootings in the US. On Saturday, 20 people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in El Paso. Early the next morning, nine people were gunned down outside a popular Dayton bar. The suspects were identified …

Good Monday. (Want this by email? Sign up here.) Business reckons with the latest mass shootings Two shootings that killed nearly 30 people in the U.S. over the weekend have again prompted political outrage — and forced some businesses to consider their role in promoting gun violence. The attacks, in …

John Legend has embarked on a fiery condemnation of Donald Trump, referring to the US President as “a flaming racist” and “an evil f***ing canker sore on America’s whole landscape” following his racist Twitter rant about Baltimore. Speaking to paparazzi photographers from the gossip site TMZ, Legend declared Trump “a …

STOCKHOLM — To some cheers and an equal amount of mockery, President Trump has treated the ASAP Rocky assault case as something akin to an international hostage crisis. So when Rocky went on trial here on Tuesday along with two members of his entourage, few were very surprised when Robert …