Journalists have been attacked all over the world while on the job covering protests for years, but never like they were this week in the United States during the George Floyd protests.At least half a dozen incidences of arrests and attacks were reported in protests across the United States this weekend. Some were high profile, like the and his crew Friday morning. Others got less attention, like Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske or the two Los Angeles Times photographers who were briefly taken into custody. WAVE-TV reporter Kaitlin Rust, who was covering protests in...…Journalists have been attacked all over the world while on the job covering protests for years, but never like they were this week in the United States during the George Floyd protests.At least half a dozen incidences of arrests and attacks were reported in protests across the United States this weekend. Some were high profile, like the and his crew Friday morning. Others got less attention, like Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske or the two Los Angeles Times photographers who were briefly taken into custody. WAVE-TV reporter Kaitlin Rust, who was covering protests in...WW…

The British Labour Party has admitted it defamed Jewish whistleblowers who spoke to the BBC Panorama program about anti-Semitism in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.The program featured a number of Jewish whistleblowers who condemned the party’s practices on anti-Semitic complaints under the direction of Corbyn, claiming that several high ranking officers in the party interfered with investigations into alleged perpetrators who were members of the party. Labour responded at the time by accusing those who participated in the program of just being “disaffected former staff” who...…The British Labour Party has admitted it defamed Jewish whistleblowers who spoke to the BBC Panorama program about anti-Semitism in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.The program featured a number of Jewish whistleblowers who condemned the party’s practices on anti-Semitic complaints under the direction of Corbyn, claiming that several high ranking officers in the party interfered with investigations into alleged perpetrators who were members of the party. Labour responded at the time by accusing those who participated in the program of just being “disaffected former staff” who...WW…

Barbie Latza Nadeau and Rob Picheta, CNN • Updated 22nd July 2020Up next(CNN) — A gondoliere opens a kiosk for people wanting to go for a gondola ride in May.Andrew Pattaro/AFP/Getty ImagesRelated content…Barbie Latza Nadeau and Rob Picheta, CNN • Updated 22nd July 2020Up next(CNN) — A gondoliere opens a kiosk for people wanting to go for a gondola ride in May.Andrew Pattaro/AFP/Getty ImagesRelated contentWW…

Authorities in Thailand have dropped all charges against the playboy grandson of the co-founder of Red Bull whose Ferrari fatally struck a police officer on a motorcycle on a Bangkok street in 2012. The oil from Vorayuth Yoovidhaya’s leaking engine, which was damaged from hitting the officer’s motorcycle, led investigators to his door after he fled the accident scene. Vorayuth, whose family is among the wealthiest in Thailand, admitted to being drunk when he hit the officer, but he was not immediately arrested and later paid the dead officer’s family nearly $100,000.During the lengthy,...…Authorities in Thailand have dropped all charges against the playboy grandson of the co-founder of Red Bull whose Ferrari fatally struck a police officer on a motorcycle on a Bangkok street in 2012. The oil from Vorayuth Yoovidhaya’s leaking engine, which was damaged from hitting the officer’s motorcycle, led investigators to his door after he fled the accident scene. Vorayuth, whose family is among the wealthiest in Thailand, admitted to being drunk when he hit the officer, but he was not immediately arrested and later paid the dead officer’s family nearly $100,000.During the lengthy,...WW…

ICONChris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same.he hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent and my friend and colleague for nearly 25 years, is not having him edit it. He would have invariably found a better way for me to clumsily try to express how truly inspirational he was to a whole generation of journalists he wanted only to see succeed. Or he would have surely wanted just a little bit more focus on his heroic past as a war correspondent, or to point out how...…ICONChris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same.he hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent and my friend and colleague for nearly 25 years, is not having him edit it. He would have invariably found a better way for me to clumsily try to express how truly inspirational he was to a whole generation of journalists he wanted only to see succeed. Or he would have surely wanted just a little bit more focus on his heroic past as a war correspondent, or to point out how...WW…

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWChinese authorities have temporarily banned the wild animal trade over coronavirus pandemic fears, but they are now offering tax incentives to export their edible exotic animals overseas. China’s National People’s Congress said in a statement when banning the trade, “The prominent problem of recklessly eating wild animals and its potential risk to public health have aroused wide public concern.” But a new report by the Wall Street Journal says they are now hoping to cash in on the multi-billion dollar animal product industry by offering...…CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWChinese authorities have temporarily banned the wild animal trade over coronavirus pandemic fears, but they are now offering tax incentives to export their edible exotic animals overseas. China’s National People’s Congress said in a statement when banning the trade, “The prominent problem of recklessly eating wild animals and its potential risk to public health have aroused wide public concern.” But a new report by the Wall Street Journal says they are now hoping to cash in on the multi-billion dollar animal product industry by offering...WW…

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWShortages of hand sanitizer, disinfectants, and other sterilization products that are crucial to keep people safe in the coronavirus pandemic are being exacerbated by Trump tariffs on Chinese imports, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing public filings by companies asking for exemptions. Some medical supply companies have asked the Trump administration to waive levies to allow the import of products like the disinfectant glutaraldehyde, now subject to the 25 percent tariffs. Among those filing complaints are Lubrizol Corp, owned...…CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWShortages of hand sanitizer, disinfectants, and other sterilization products that are crucial to keep people safe in the coronavirus pandemic are being exacerbated by Trump tariffs on Chinese imports, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing public filings by companies asking for exemptions. Some medical supply companies have asked the Trump administration to waive levies to allow the import of products like the disinfectant glutaraldehyde, now subject to the 25 percent tariffs. Among those filing complaints are Lubrizol Corp, owned...WW…

An American-owned cargo ship named after the president of the United States docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news source. The hangar in Lebanon only had 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which to the Lebanese capital. The ship docked in Ukraine, which was previously named Seabreeze before a Florida company registered as Pilin Fleet Management LLC purchased it in 2018, and renamed it Trump D, was registered by Marine Traffic tracking website in the...…An American-owned cargo ship named after the president of the United States docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news source. The hangar in Lebanon only had 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which to the Lebanese capital. The ship docked in Ukraine, which was previously named Seabreeze before a Florida company registered as Pilin Fleet Management LLC purchased it in 2018, and renamed it Trump D, was registered by Marine Traffic tracking website in the...WW…

Barbie Latza Nadeau, Livia Borghese and Rory Sullivan, CNN • Updated 7th August 2020Up next(CNN) — It's feared a section of 500,000 square meters of the Planpincieux glacier could detach.MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty ImagesRelated content…Barbie Latza Nadeau, Livia Borghese and Rory Sullivan, CNN • Updated 7th August 2020Up next(CNN) — It's feared a section of 500,000 square meters of the Planpincieux glacier could detach.MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty ImagesRelated contentWW…

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWDonald Trump used Twitter to thank the Secret Service for protecting the White House on Friday night against demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. He said the unit tasked with protecting him were “not only totally professional, but very cool” as they kept protesters, who were partly fired up by his own racially insensitive comments, at bay. “I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe,” he wrote before threatening that had protesters would “have been greeted with the...…CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWDonald Trump used Twitter to thank the Secret Service for protecting the White House on Friday night against demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. He said the unit tasked with protecting him were “not only totally professional, but very cool” as they kept protesters, who were partly fired up by his own racially insensitive comments, at bay. “I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe,” he wrote before threatening that had protesters would “have been greeted with the...WW…