Nate Berkus is firmly anti-trend, and instead of piling on new decor, he’s focused on editing, refining, and investing in pieces that actually last. The interior design icon has clued us in to the home pieces you’ll use for the rest of your life, including a quality sofa, candlestick holders, a gilded mirror, and the…
Two members of a Southern California street gang operating under a branch of the Mexican Mafia prison gang were found guilty by a jury today of murdering a man outside his home while trying to rob him. Ysrael Jacob Cordova, 41, also known as “Trips,” and “Tripper,” of Placentia, California, and Ricardo Valenzuela, 44, also…
(RNS) — A controversial Tennessee pastor has claimed federal officials broke down his door and raided his house after former members of his church accused him of financial impropriety. The Rev. Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, said he was lying in bed about three weeks ago and heard a…
President Donald Trump unexpectedly left Turkey on Wednesday aboard an older Air Force One rather than the newly renovated Qatari-donated jet that brought him there, but later boarded the new plane in Britain for the flight to Washington. The trip to Turkey for the NATO summit, the first international travel for the new plane, took…
Holly, my hyperactive mad hatter of a beagle, was a gift from my well-meaning sister. She was born into a beagle pack who were kennelled in a dog food factory in the Irish town of Edgeworthstown in County Longford. She bounded into my life one sunny evening, a bouncing, dribbling, velvet-eared bundle of puppy energy….
Prolonged exposure to high indoor temperatures is linked to heat exhaustion and heat stroke, cardiovascular issues, sleep disturbance and mental health problems. Finding an air conditioned space during the heatwave has been a topic of conversation for many people. Churches, community centres, museums and libraries have been providing free ‘cool spaces’, helping people to take…
A row has broken out between Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the future of the Immigration Minister Mike Tapp. Tapp had written for the Times newspaper, external calling for foreign care workers to be exempt from Mahmood’s plans to change visa rules for migrants already living in the UK….
A Minnesota home seller and financier has been found liable for violating state laws in a scheme that targeted East African Muslims with deceptive real estate deals marketed as “sharia compliant.” After a two-week trial in downtown Minneapolis, a jury sided with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office Monday afternoon in a civil case alleging…
A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas on Friday night and killed a woman inside, the authorities said. The driver, Michael Butler, was in a Tesla Model 3 about 8 p.m. local time and operating the car “with an automated driving assistance system,”…
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. Shakespeare’s villains used it at the Globe, walking toward the groundlings to whisper their twisted truths. Since then, it’s been supersized. At big moments in musicals like “A Chorus Line” and “Ragtime,” the cast storms the footlights as if to mow them down — and then…
