Ex-police chief serving time for murder and rape escapes Arkansas prison

Artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s work Rage is a Machine in Times of Senselessness, which appeared on this year’s Venice Biennale The artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s Jewish grandfather fled Nazi Germany to escape the Holocaust and settled in Mexico. That is where she was born in 1988 and grew up. Toranzo… Read Details ⇢

Kawéni shantytown, Mayotte, December 19, 2024. MORGAN FACHE FOR LE MONDE How many people will France mourn on Monday, December 23, the day of national mourning decreed by the president on Thursday during his visit to the French archipelago? The authorities have refused to comment. A number is eagerly awaited, but… Read Details ⇢

The Senate’s top DOGE Republican will send 24 letters – one to each major federal agency head – demanding a halt to last-minute work-from-home negotiations before President Biden returns to Delaware. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, made the demand days after crafting legislation for… Read Details ⇢

The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee. More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, bringing them safely to port. The 102 people,… Read Details ⇢

The past few weeks have shown us how digital landscapes shape our social, political, and economic lives. This has been using misinformation and disinformation to stir up and generate a real-world response. As a result of the digital world’s impact, the rise of hacktivism has become an influential force in… Read Details ⇢

The Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) conduct a work at a mass grave, where remains of bodies believed to be those of civilians killed by the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad were found, in the Baghdad Bridge area outside the capital Damascus, Syria on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Emin… Read Details ⇢

The exhibition ‘The Soul Trembles,’ by Chiharu Shiota, at the Grand Palais in Paris on December 2024. GRAND PALAIS RMN 2024/DIDIER PLOWY/ADAGP, PARIS 2024 Dynamic plumes of red thread spring from boats on land and fill the space. A dense network of black wires encloses charred chairs and a piano… Read Details ⇢

Cate Blanchett is one of the many actors expressing fears about artificial intelligence. In a recent interview with the BBC, the Oscar winner said the technology “deeply concerned” her. “I’m looking at these robots and driverless cars and I don’t really know what that’s bringing anybody,” she told the outlet. … Read Details ⇢

Islamabad, Pakistan – When Hassan Ali fell into the icy waters of the Mediterranean Sea, he thought of his two children – of their smiles, their hugs and his hopes for their future. Then he remembered the others from his small village in Pakistan’s Punjab province who had dreamed of… Read Details ⇢