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People load merchandise into a car near a looted Best Buy store after parts of the city had widespread looting and vandalism, on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Police made several arrests during the night of unrest and recovered at least one firearm. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) … [Read more...] about Nolte: Magnificent Mile Riots, Looting Hit Democrat-Run Chicago

A "major incident" has been declared in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, after dozens of homes were evacuated Residents from 28 properties in Mansfield have been told it is still unsafe for them to return home after a mudslide on Thursday Every time there's serious flooding, questions are asked about why it was allowed to happen. … [Read more...] about England flooding: Woman dies after being swept away in Derbyshire

While the crowd dissipated, police later noticed “several social media posts” prompting a planned looting along the Magnificent Mile, the 13-block stretch of high-end shopping outlets along North Michigan Avenue that runs to Lake Michigan. Brown said about 400 officers were deployed to the area, just as the first looting incident took place, and crowds of people began to smash windows and rush into storefronts on 87th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway. Soon, Brown said, “car caravans were headed into the Loop” and began mass looting.  … [Read more...] about Chicago Is in Shock After Hundreds of Looters Overrun Luxury Shops in ‘Assault on the City’

Remember your first experience of drinking hard liquor or smoking. As a rule, it was a slightly older peer who told you, in secret, I’ve got some whisky, cigarettes, and then you try it, and you must admit, your first reaction is it’s horrible! It’s horrible! Then you learn to enjoy it. It begins as distaste. If you want pleasurable drinks you drink milk or fruit juices. All other, higher pleasures like whisky [are] an acquired taste. But let me go on now, into more serious domain. A similar lesson can be learned from swearing, talking dirty. It may appear that in the middle of a polite conversation you get really mad, you cannot hold back anymore. You are totally frustrated, so you explode into it. I claim this is not how it is. I claim that precisely when apparently you lose your nerves and explode – at that point you follow the ritual, the formal cliché, totally. I noticed how – maybe I’m a madman here – but I have a ritual with my good … [Read more...] about Truth Is a Feeling: An Oral History of

The woman, who was in her 30s and has been named locally as Danni, was pulled from the water after being caught out by the strong current. Horrified onlookers tried in vain to resuscitate her before paramedics took over, but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. … [Read more...] about Flash floods leave town underwater with torrential rain and thunderstorms sweeping Britain ahead of another once-rare 68F ‘Tropical night’ after temperatures soared close to 100F