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CNN)The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated this week by Florida's governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern segregationists 60 years ago. In 1962, a group of conservatives, intent on retaliating against desegregation efforts during the civil rights movement, funded one-way trips to the north for Black citizens, in what they called "Reverse Freedom Rides." Hundreds of Black Americans were transported to cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, recruited by members of a segregationist group called the White Citizens' Council, with false promises of jobs and housi

The cult group’s believers peel vegetables at the farmhouse.Scores of parents in Cambodia have urged the government to help bring back their children camping at a farmhouse owned by a politician-turned-doomsday prophet amid concerns they had been indoctrinated. Khem Veasna, head of the League for Democracy Party (LDP), claimed a devastating flood could wipe out humanity on Aug 30, and called on his supporters to take refuge at his mountainside plantation in Siem Reap province. More than 20,000 followers, including teenagers and Cambodians working in Thailand and Japan, returned to Cambodia and flocked to the estate to escape the impending...

[Catholic Caucus] Large Crowds March for Latin Mass in Washington DCAs many cities across the globe reel from the self harm of Latin Mass crackdowns, a group of Catholics in the Arlington and Washington DC took to the streets today to express their wish to see it restored. Carrying banners stating ‘What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred’ and ‘Save the Traditional Mass’, the Summorum Pontificum event was intended to petition for ‘The Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass’. Those marching said Rosaries on their route from one suppressed church to another. Speakers at the event decried the ‘rupture’...

Globally beloved but difficult to define, curry is a testament to the creativity and resilience of the human spirit, drawing its spices and aromatics from a worldwide pantry. By Published on "I paid a lot of bribes to learn, to be honest with you," Chintan Pandya, chef and partner of several excellent Indian restaurants in New York City, tells me with a look of bemusement. We're in the kitchen at Dhamaka, his restaurant of provincial cuisine dubbed "unapologetic Indian," which looks out on bustling Delancey Street in the Lower East Side. The chef drops a handful of curry leaves in...

The campaign of Uncle Fester-ish, ne’er do well goon running for United Staes Senator in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, seems to have had a sudden attack of the yips this weekend. They’ve sent out a terse little memo, warning of increased Republican ad spending, and that they can’t match the money.PHILADELPHIA — John Fetterman continues to lead Mehmet Oz in the polls, but the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign is privately sounding the alarm that things could change if he continues getting outspent on TV....For all the regular guy act, Fetterman has significant problems, and those are starting to surface as liabilities....

Recent research has demonstrated that as many as 200 million people in the Americas and Europe have Jewish ancestry who were forcibly converted. …The process for certification begins with filling out a relatively short questionnaire about a person’s background, clues about their Jewish heritage, like customs, family trees or items with a Jewish connection, and their reasons for believing they have Sephardi ancestry. This information will then be assessed by a team of experts and researchers who will determine if the applicant has enough information to be awarded the certificate... …While the certificate will have no legal status, it is...

Hopes that the Covid-19 pandemic could be over soon have risen online in China with a UN agency's assessment that the end is "in sight" but there is no sign in the country that strict controls will be abandoned. Nevertheless, Chinese state media have denied suggestions that the country's "dynamic zero-Covid" approach will become permanent government policy. Expectations of a potential end to restrictions in China were raised on Wednesday (Sept 14) when the United Nations posted a message on its WeChat account that next week's UN General Assembly session would include a meeting to discuss "ending the Covid-19 pandemic"....

Two Covid-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as Omicron and the variant's latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete. The two therapies - which are designed to work by binding to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralise the virus' ability to infect cells - were some of the first medicines developed early in the pandemic. The virus has since evolved, and mounting evidence from lab tests suggests the two therapies - sotrovimab, as well as casirivimab-imdevimab - have limited clinical activity against the latest iterations of the virus.

An accused jilted madman who flew into an ax-wielding rage at a Lower East Side McDonald’s was released without bail at his arraignment, authorities said Sunday. Michael Palacios, 31, who allegedly grabbed an ax and trashed the Delancey Street fast-food joint in a fit early Friday, was arraigned on fourth-degree criminal-mischief and possession-of-weapons charges hours later and freed, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said. Neither charge is eligible for bail under the state’s lenient criminal-justice reforms. According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, Palacios slammed two tables and a plate-glass partition during the early-morning rampage. Palacios also told...

"Hashtag, 50 is the new 30," says Tiat Lim when asked about his age. And for Tiat, who turned half-a-century old early this year, the statement isn't a hollow one by a mid-lifer in denial either. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. After all, the man has been found to have successfully reversed his biological age by more than 20 years. The "de-ageing" process to turn back the clock took him about six years, from around the time he and his sister opened their gym, Bespoke Fitness, in 2016. The...

Hurricane Fiona is striking Puerto Rico. Forbes reports that the island's entire electrical grid ...

Bill Clinton, 76, said that Republicans are only able to 'close' in midterm elections because 'they scare people' into thinking they need to vote in right-leaning politicians. The former Democratic president said that his party could hold onto the House and Senate in November's election if they 'say the right things' – suggesting that Republicans are better at embellishing to make their cause seem more dire. While early predictions pointed to a Republican bloodbath in the 2022 midterms, more recent polling has shown Democrats and the GOP at a tie or close to one when asked which party likely voters...

Since the marijuana legalization era began in 2012, the federal government has operated under an unwritten understanding that it would not enforce marijuana laws in states where the drug is legal. So, how is that working out? The Los Angeles Times looked for answers in rural California and published the results in a new series this month. California legalized the recreational use of marijuana by referendum in 2016. Proponents promised that a taxable and orderly marijuana trade would be the result, a clear improvement over the violent black market trade that had preceded legalization. They promised that the legal marijuana...

Tricked by segregationists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing. Sound familiar? Eliza Davis was bewildered the day she arrived in a wealthy tourist town on Cape Cod. An agricultural worker, she had been promised work and housing if she took a free trip to another state. Days later, disembarking with her eight children, she had little idea where she was, that a president had a family compound down the road, or that she was a “pawn,” as locals told the New York Times, in a political stunt. Davis, 36, was not...

A new NBC News poll shows Donald Trump's favorability rating as 34 percent. Meanwhile President Joe Biden's job approval rating ticked up to 45 percent. Donald Trump's approval rating has sunk to its lowest point since April 2021, a new poll suggests on Sunday, just days after the ex-president announced two new campaign events for candidates he's endorsed in the midterms. The tides appear to be shifting there too, the NBC News survey suggests, with Republicans and Democrats now deadlocked in Congressional preferences after months of GOP dominance. Trump is fresh off of one of his signature Make America Great...

Governor Newsom has developed a multifaceted plan to solve California's growing energy problem. The Governor's plan, coupled with the demonic supermajority in the Legislature, promises a successful outcome. First, the Governor will propose, and have passed in the Legislature, laws which will demonize and eventually drive 5 - 10 million California residents out of the state. This alone will dramatically decrease energy use. Secondly, the total adoption of the Green Renewable Energy initiative will cause the cost of energy to sky rocket and severely limit its availability. Only the very wealthy will be able to afford the high cost of...

Yesterday was the 235th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States. It's one of the most influential documents in history and the world's oldest active codified constitution. Yet you would have never known, given the deafening silence on the social media accounts of our country's resident and vice resident. While they often pander to crowds, touting the importance of the Constitution, neither resident Joe Biden nor Vice resident Kamala Harris appeared to acknowledge Constitution Day on their social media accounts. The Constitution is one of the greatest documents in the history of the world, so it is a little...

Jordan Peterson and a student have an intelligent debate about hate speech laws and how it leads to authoritarianism. See video at link.

A teaser for the forthcoming live action remake of The Little Mermaid has been released. There’s a brief glimpse of the underwater kingdom — fish, coral and the wreckage of a ship — then a swish of red hair and a glimmering green tail as we hear a snippet of Halle Bailey’s glorious rendition of Part of Your World. Social media has been flooded with videos of parents showing the trailer to their young black children, capturing their reactions when they realise this version of Ariel looks a lot more like them than in the original Disney movie. “That’s Ariel?”...

NEW YORK - New York City is eyeing legal action to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from sending more buses full of asylum seekers to the city, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday. As at least six more buses from Texas arrived in the city Sunday morning, Adams also floated the idea of using cruise ships to house migrants who have been entering city homeless shelters by the thousands. “Our legal team is looking at legal challenges we could do with Texas,” Adams said in an appearance on CBS 2. “We believe there are some options we have, because when you...