British band Enter Shikari, formed in 2003, recently released their fifth album, The Spark. The radical and raucous rhetorical element of the band’s previous work is still there, but the music has in addition something more introspective, escapist and pessimistic about it—reflected in a less frenetic, more mellow sound. With the new album the band […]

US animal rights activist Kevin Johnson was jailed for releasing thousands of animals from a fur factory.

Los Angeles police are investigating almost two dozen cases of alleged criminal sexual misconduct connected to multiple people within the entertainment industry, a senior department official told NBC News. The cases involve individuals who are known publicly as well as others who have not yet been identified, the official said Friday. Allegations span from misdemeanor […]

A “free speech” rally took place on Boston Common on Saturday under heavy police scrutiny. As with an earlier rally in August, those in attendance were heavily outnumbered by counter-protesters, including black-and-red clad “antifa.” The Rally for the Republic, organized on Facebook by the groups Resist Marxism and Boston Free Speech, was denied a permit […]

During the early morning hours of September 21, nine young activists — all in their twenties — hauled a coffin toward a police station in the northern city of Lira. The coffin was draped with posters of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni and a number of his other allies in government. Written across the coffin on […]

A decorated World War II veteran died gasping for breath while staff at his nursing home laughed in front of him, according to hidden camera video revealed in a lawsuit against the facility. James Dempsey, 89, of Woodstock, Ga., called for help six times Feb. 27, 2014, before becoming unconscious while gasping for air, according to the […]

Nearly 30 years ago, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Albert Shanker gave a speech at the National Press Club in which he outlined his pedagogical ideal: Small, independently managed schools that championed innovation and served as “educational laboratories.” He called them charter schools. As Shanker envisioned it, unionized charters would test a variety of classroom […]

Lawmakers in Russia’s lower house of parliament have voted in favour of forcing media outlets, which are funded from abroad, to register as foreign agents.

A 21st century McCarthyism has emerged in recent months, in the form of a frenzied campaign spearheaded by the Democratic Party alleging that “Russian meddling” is responsible, not only for the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, but also for instigating or deepening social, racial and political divisions in the US. The language […]

How did one of Italy’s most wanted mafia bosses register a company at 10 Downing Street without anyone noticing? Because a group of Italian journalists wanted to expose Britain’s flawed corporate registration system. It took just a few clicks to make Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who has been on the run for the […]