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China Is Already Trying to Control Who the Next Dalai Lama Will Be
The Dalai Lama attends a prayer ceremony in dharamshala, India, in February —PTI/AP In early June, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was wheeled into an operating room at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi. Spiritually, His Holiness is an emanation, or tulku, of the bodhisattva Chenrezig, who renounced nirvana to help mankind. But his corporeal…
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Nirav Shah, governor primary runner-up, jumps into race to replace Platner
Nirav Shah, the former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention director who recently lost in the Democratic primary for governor, officially threw his name into the race to succeed Graham Platner on Thursday morning. Like many other Democrats who are jumping in officially following Platner’s exit Wednesday evening, Shah was essentially already in the…
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Nearly 100 dementia patients are being evicted from their Redondo Beach home. Why it’s sparking outrage
Jennifer Aust’s heart is breaking. Her whole life, she watched her dad, Pat, give back to the South Bay community he was raised in. He joined the Redondo Beach Fire Department in 1970 and held nearly every rank inside the department — including chief — before retiring in 2002. Then came eight years as a…
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US and Iran exchange intensifying fire across the Mideast, threatening the interim deal to end war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East. Back-and-forth attacks, including a day earlier, have repeatedly threatened the ceasefire, but Thursday’s appeared…
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Nightmare scenario unlocked by Trump as hero nurse fears losing her toddler
A Haitian nurse heralded as a hero during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is living in fear in Florida as she waits to hear if she will get another work authorization extension to remain with her terminally ill mother and 17-month-old son in the United States — her home for more than 30 years.…
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Developer of buckling NYC building facing $376M claims for ‘life-threatening’ shortcuts at celeb enclave
MetroLoft, the developer behind the Manhattan high rise that suddenly buckled on Tuesday, is facing a $350 million-plus lawsuit at star-studded 443 Greenwich St., home to names including Rebel Wilson, Harry Styles and Meg Ryan over the last decade. A construction defect case, alleging a number of structural flaws, initially included $250 million in compensation…
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After her son’s death, she found a new purpose. ‘He’s whispering, ‘Mom, this is your path’
It was after the death of her son, Laith, that Esme Saleh decided to become a folk artist. She had always been creative, experimenting with watercolors and learning to sew and embroider at a young age. “I had a creative inkling,” she said, “but I never pursued it.” Everything changed on Aug. 17, 2013. When…
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‘Ticked off all his grievances’: NYT reveals ‘odd’ irony behind Trump’s NATO antics
President Donald Trump’s behavior at the NATO summit in Turkey effectively split the conference in two, a New York Times analysis argued Thursday, creating a pair of completely different political tracks for world affairs. The U.S. president, wrote Steven Erlanger, “dominated the news cycle with a steady stream of complaints, grievances and insults aimed at…
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Who Can Hold ICE Accountable?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts On Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an attempted arrest in Houston. The agency immediately issued a statement explaining the officer’s use of lethal force, providing nearly the same description of events that it used when Renee…
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A Gaza father’s desperate search for his son’s body
GAZA CITY — Yusef al-Zaharnah’s eyes were transfixed on the excavator’s bucket as its claws scooped into the rubble, hoping its fresh load would end nine grueling months of uncertainty and allow him to fully grieve. Once it disgorged its haul, Al-Zaharnah, a burly, weary-looking 56-year-old, climbed over the detritus and bent low for a closer…