U.N. Gets OK to Aid Crippled Yemen Tanker After Months of Waiting


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Happy Thanksgiving to All Those Who Told the Truth in This Election


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No, President Trump Did Not Pardon Himself


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No, Trump cannot win Georgia’s electoral votes through a write-in Senate campaign.


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Mexican cartel boss arrested over Mormon massacre in which nine died

  • Roberto González Montes and two others detained late Monday
  • Outcry after three women and six children killed in 2019 attack

Mexican security forces have arrested a local drug cartel boss implicated in the Nov 2019 murder of nine women and children from an isolated Mormon community, raising hopes among victims’ relatives it might lead to an explanation for the attack.

Even in a country long used to violence, the 4 November massacre of three women and six children as they travelled a lonely road through the Sierra Madre Mountains shocked many Mexicans – not least because there seemed no explanation for the bloodshed.

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Lame duck pardons turkey: Trump confronts reality at muted Thanksgiving event

At a much diminished White House ceremony, the president seemed to realise that his star has already begun to wane

It was a sad spectacle. Here was an ageing comic confronted by a shrinking audience, his jokes landing with a thud, his star beginning to fade.

Donald Trump suddenly finds himself where he has never been: a secondary story, overshadowed by Joe Biden, dominating the news cycle no more.

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We Are Who We Are review – Luca Guadagnino's teen drama burns slowly

The Call Me By Your Name director’s debut TV outing is beautifully shot and languorously paced, but it might need an energy boost if we are to stick with its angsty protagonist

Only one of the eight episodes of We Are Who We Are (BBC Three), award-winning film director Luca Guadagnino’s first television outing, was available for preview. This seems a mistake, given that the coming-of-age story of a group of teenagers on an American airbase in Italy is so clearly a slow burner. It has been described by those in the US as exquisite, lyrical, poetic and in many other terms that loosely translate as “admirable, a talent showcase and yet ever so slightly boring at first sight”. Allowing for that handicap, then, let us sally forth and, like protagonist Fraser – roaming round the new home his US colonel mother, Sarah (Chloë Sevigny), and her wife, Maggie (a mere major, played by Alice Braga), have brought him to – see what there is for us.

At 14, Fraser (brilliantly played by Jack Dylan Grazer) is an unlovely piece of work. Face (complete with bumfluff moustache) set in a permanent sneer, headphones plugged as permanently into his ears, he is a self-indulgent mass of hormones and attitude. He is full of contempt for humanity and resentment of Sarah, who has brought the family to the Venuto military base so that she can take over from the outgoing commander. During one extended sequence of Frazer’s explorations of his new territory, my notes record that “he’s even annoying riding a bike”.

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