The International Criminal Court (ICC) is preparing to initiate a full investigation into potential war crimes in Afghanistan, including those committed by U.S. military personnel, Foreign Policy exclusively reported Tuesday. The magazine writes: Multiple sources have indicated that the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, will seek to initiate an investigation in the coming weeks, likely after […]
Scully has spent the past two decades calling out Mulder on his nonsense, and now, Gillian Anderson is doing the same to her show. After news broke earlier this week that the upcoming 11th season of The X-Files had reportedly hired an all-male team of writers, fans criticized the move on social media. Now, Anderson […]
Idris Elba fans, prepare to lose whatever’s left of your hearts. The 44-year-old actor brought down the house Monday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon while promoting his latest film, The Dark Tower. In an epic round of Google Translate Songs, Elba graciously showed off his singing skills with a rendition of “Baby Got Back” by […]
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has just published its annual report, which confirms that the Southern Cone of Latin America is the region of the world producing the largest quantity of GMOs and having the largest land area under a single monoculture (over 54 million hectares of GM soy in […]
It’s been a major week for Demi Lovato, and now the star wants to remind her fans that she’s feeling as sexy and as confident as ever. On Thursday, the singer and actress took to Instagram to post a bold shot of herself topless in front of the mirror. Shared without a caption or accompanying […]
As the March of Great Return continued in Gaza for the fifth straight Friday—and Israeli forces killed least four Palestinians and injured more than 800—human rights advocates demanded an immediate worldwide arms embargo in response to Israel’s “unlawful” use of force. International outrage has grown over the past five weeks, as snipers with the Israeli […]
Last year, Demi Lovato came out as a strong and vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton during the presidential election, even going as far as to work for her campaign directly. Now, almost a year after the fact, the singer is giving us a peek into what the experience was like—including on election night. “I actually was with […]
A suicide bomber inflicts hell at a concert hall in Manchester, England that’s full of children, as though that was the point — to murder children. The horror of war . . . well, terrorism . . . doesn’t get any worse. And the media, as they focus on the spectacle of what happened, as […]
The deadly truck bombing that struck the diplomatic area Afghanistan’s capital during rush hour on Wednesday is a grim reminder of the ongoing horrors of war felt by Afghan civilians, says one expert. CNN noted that the “streets were packed with commuters, women shopping, and children going to school.” The New York Times writes that […]
Any truthful way to say it will sound worse than ghastly: We live in a world where one person could decide to begin a nuclear war—quickly killing several hundred million people and condemning vast numbers of others to slower painful deaths. Given the macabre insanity of this ongoing situation, most people don’t like to talk […]