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At first, the high school football players thought the woman waving the gun was joking. Then she started yelling and cursing, before forcing them to the ground. The four boys, aged 15 and 16, had spent the morning in their Arkansas town going door-to-door selling discount cards for their annual high school football team fundraiser.  We’ll …

“There he stood, the poet who had long been a literary icon, come to celebrate with me,” Ms. Marshall wrote in her memoir, “Triangular Road” (2009), adding that he was there “to beam at me like a paterfamilias whose offspring had done him proud.” In 1961, she earned a Guggenheim …

Astronomers have spotted strange, unexplained flashes coming out of our black hole. The huge swirling object at the centre of our galaxy – which is four million times the mass of the Sun, and known as Sagittarius A* – is sending out unusual blasts of radiation that are more powerful than …

The forthcoming Black Widow spin-off movie prevented a funeral scene for Scarlett Johansson’s character in Avengers: Endgame, the film’s directors have confirmed. Speaking during the DVD/Blu-Ray commentary for the Marvel finale movie, co-director Joe Russo said that there was a reason the death of Robert Downey Jr’s character Tony Stark …

“Bastards” I muttered when first I glimpsed my Volvo XC40 press car. “Sods”.   I really wasn’t ready for it, this Volvo. It was black – OK – but with a white roof, white door mirrors, and, may god have mercy on their souls, white alloy wheels. It was a funster …

How does a male black widow find a mate? Follow the other guys It’s a myth that female black widow spiders always kill and consume their mates. But courtship remains perilous for males, cannibalism or not. The terrain, navigated in the dark, is challenging. The female’s web releases come-hither pheromones, …

Nigel Tufnel, the dimwitted lead guitarist of the fictional band “Spinal Tap,” is Major League Baseball’s kind of guy. Upon seeing the all-black cover of a new album, Nigel decides that he loves it. “There’s something about this that’s so black, it’s like, how much more black could this be?” …

A Texas police chief has apologised after officers on horseback were spotted leading a black man through the streets by a rope. Photographs of the arrest in Galveston quickly spread online as social media users compared it to the era of slavery. “This is wrong!!!” wrote Erin Toberman, who was the first …

“I do think that using Trump imagery is triggering for black people,” Ms. Shropshire said. “We don’t use it in our advertising.” Democratic presidential candidates have not settled on how to deal with the man they all hope to replace. While five of the party’s 20 candidates called Mr. Trump …

Donald Trump has goaded black congressman Elijah Cummings about his home being burgled in Baltimore – the city the president described as “disgusting” and “rat and rodent infested”. In the latest in a spate of attacks on the Democratic politician, the president tweeted: “Really bad news! The Baltimore house of …