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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a hearing. | AFP via Getty Images
Russia’s year-long detention of Evan Gershkovich is one part of a very grim picture for journalism.
This morning, Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War, woke up to his second year in prison.
After five years of covering Russia, he was arrested in March 2023. It came as a shock: Though Russian journalists have long faced increasing repression and even ..read more
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pre-trial detention, at the Moscow City Court on February 20, 2024. | Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images
Evan Gershkovich’s case isn’t just about press freedom. It’s about geopolitics.
Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on charges of spying, just had three months added to his jail time — and he hasn’t even gone to trial yet.
It’s been a year since Gershkovich, who had covered the country for five years at ..read more
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Netanyahu addresses supporters on March 24, 2021. | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
Netanyahu has till Sunday evening to present a fix to Israel’s controversial conscription law. If he fails, his government likely fails with him.
This Sunday, Israel is scheduled for a political crisis.
At midnight Israel time on April 1, the government will hit a deadline for changing its policy on the military draft. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will then be required to send conscription notices to roughly 66,000 ultra-Orthodox men, who had been previously exempted by a law carving out special privileges ..read more
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Should we take current polls seriously? Or are there good reasons to expect a Biden comeback?
Is Joe Biden in deep reelection trouble, or is there good reason to think he’s headed for a comeback? The question has divided the political world for months.
The case that Biden’s on track for defeat is pretty simple: He’s trailed Trump in a large majority of the national and swing state polls conducted since last September.
That means it’s been six months with very little good polling news for Biden. If you take the polls seriously, he’s in trouble — and those who fear Trump’s ..read more
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The oil tanker Nobel waiting to transfer crude oil from Russia, on March 5, 2023, near Ceuta, Spain. | Antonio Sempere/Europa Press via Getty Images
The world’s next big maritime catastrophe could involve sanctions-dodging rustbuckets.
On March 2, just as it was rounding the northern tip of Denmark, an oil tanker called the Andromeda Star collided with another ship. Thankfully, the 700,000-barrel capacity Andromeda Star was empty at the time, as it was making its way to Russia to pick up oil for export. If it had been on its way back, its cargo hold full of crude, a little-noticed maritime inc ..read more
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Venezuelan migrants, Lenin Diaz, 11, left, Maria Inojosa, 43, and Diaz’s mother Euglimar Ramos, 30, walk outside a shelter on December 19, 2023, in Chicago. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images
They point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy.
Chicago’s decision to move forward with a controversial migrant eviction proposal is underscoring ongoing gaps in immigration policy that continue to exist across the country — and the inhumane quick fixes that are being used in the meantime.
Earlier this month, Chicago began evicting migrants from homeless shelt ..read more
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The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
From drought in the Panama Canal to the Houthis in the Suez to pirates off Somalia, we’re all paying the price.
Baltimore woke up yesterday to horrific images of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing into the harbor after the cargo ship Dali lost power and collided with a support column.
It’s a horrible tragedy — six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time are missing and presumed dead — and one that will likely take at least several billion dol ..read more
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From search efforts to how a ship can knock down a bridge, here’s what you need to know.
The shocking collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning has the region reeling as authorities continue to search for survivors who may have fallen into the Patapsco River.
Thus far, two people who were working on the bridge have been rescued and six are presumed dead by their employer, Brawner Builders, given the temperature of the water and the time that has passed since the accident, the Associated Press re ..read more
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and producer Eric B. at The Gentleman’s Factory on February 18, 2024, in New York City. | John Nacion/Getty Images
The Kennedy conspiracy theorist and his potential to upend the 2024 presidential election, explained.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to name Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate in his 2024 independent presidential bid.
Shanahan does not have political experience, but she has previously donated to Democrats, including President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign ..read more
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Displaced Palestinians collect food donated by a charity before an iftar meal, the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on March 22, 2024. | Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable.
Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine.
Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks, every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity — defined as hou ..read more