Video intervista del 2008 all’alpinista austriaco Hansjörg Auer, un anno dopo la straordinaria arrampicata free solo della Via del Pesce sulla parete Sud della Marmolada in Dolomiti, effettuata il 29 aprile 2007. Aprile 2008. Trento Film Festival. Questo è quello che Hansjörg Auer ci raccontò sulla sua incredibile salita senza corda della Via Attraverso il […]
Lo svizzero Cédric Lachat ha ripetuto Yeah Man, una difficile via di più tiri sulla cima Gran Pfad nel gruppo montuoso del Gastlosen, in Svizzera. Il climber svizzero Cédric Lachat ha iniziato il suo tour estivo all’inseguimento di alcune delle vie lunghe più dure delle Alpi ripetendo Yeah Man, una via di 300 metri sulla […]
The Los Angeles Times editorial board acknowledged President Donald Trump’s condemnation of racism, bigotry and white supremacy following the weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. “But the president should start with himself,” the newspaper’s board wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday, in which it blamed Trump’s divisive statements for creating a culture in […]
An Ohio woman sentenced to jail time for feeding stray cats has had her sentence suspended after the case drew national attention. Nancy Segula, who is in her late 70s, must instead attend mental health counseling and make alterations to her property to deter stray cats, news station WOIO reports. “Even though I love cats, […]
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explained in his latest column for The New York Times why he believes the GOP has become “a systematic enabler of terrorism.” “Don’t pretend to be shocked,” wrote Krugman. Krugman noted how prominent Republicans had failed to link President Donald Trump’s incitements to violence to a rise in hate crimes following the […]
Ivanka Trump took a leaf out of her father’s book on Tuesday, firing off a tweet without seeming to first perform a quick check of her basic facts. After Chicago’s deadliest weekend of the year ― which left seven people dead and 55 injured from gunshots ― Trump told her 6.8 million Twitter followers: While there […]
Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump about how he should talk about white supremacist terrorists. The host of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” said Trump should criticize right-wing extremists in the same way he does Muslim terrorists. “Don’t be that ugly, but be that specific,” said Cuomo. “Because they’re […]
The New York Times may have caused controversy for the soft-touch way in which it framed President Donald Trump’s comments about the weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The New York Daily News, however, cut straight to the chase. Trump’s hometown tabloid used its Tuesday cover to hammer the president for […]
Nineteen Democratic presidential candidates came to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Forum on Public Service at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Saturday to present their platforms on unions and other issues in the 2020 presidential race. The forum was moderated by HuffPost’s Amanda Terkel and the Nevada Independent’s […]
A food festival in Gilroy, California. A busy Walmart in El Paso, Texas. A popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio. All three were sites of deadly mass shootings in the past week. At least 32 innocent people are dead. Two shooters were killed and one is in custody. The carnage never seems to end and […]