Did The Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria Happen? We Need A Different Question

There has been a lot of debate other whether the chemical weapons attacks in Syria "really happened". On the one side, you have the corporate media for the West, on the other side you have the corporate media for the Russians, as well as the conspiracy-oriented fringe in the U.S. Obviously one side is correct, and the truth does matter, but it really is the wrong question to be asking.

EXPLAINER-Trump says U.S. could rejoin TPP if deal improved. How hard would it be?

U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would reconsider joining the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, if it were a "substantially better" deal than the one offered to President Barack Obama. U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018.

Company owned by Carolyn Maloney once discriminated against kids

A company that Rep. Carolyn Maloney and her siblings owned was once found to have discriminated against children over age 5 at its Virginia Beach property, according to court records. Maloney and her siblings jointly owned the land through Sea Bay Development Corp. Her sister Virginia Bosher and brother-in-law Phil Upton owned Holiday Trav-L-Park, a company that leased the Sea Bay property to run a campground and rent space to RVs and trailers.

Mark O’Donnell’s Last Opening

When her phone rang that day, Leah Nanako Winkler was broke. She'd come to New York on a bus, a decade earlier, with forty-five hundred dollars that she'd earned by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic, and now she was thinking about taking a part-time job as a dog groomer because she couldn't afford to both pay her rent and do the only work she wanted to do: write plays.

David Hockney’s “The Road”

Hockney, who celebrated his eightieth birthday last year with a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, remains a restless stylist. He spent several years drawing on an iPad-a phase that yielded a handful of New Yorker covers-and his more recent work plays with photography, collage, and hexagonal canvases.

Sarah Jessica Parker Helps Dolce & Gabbana Bring Luxe to the Library

For the past six years, the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have staged biannual presentations of their haute-couture, or Alta Moda, collections. The extravagant events, in which the designers show custom-made, one-of-a-kind pieces for both women and men, have until now taken place largely in Italian resort towns.

McCain undergoes surgery for intestinal infection

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who has has been undergoing treatment for a brain cancer diagnosis in his home state since late last year, is hospitalized in stable condition after undergoing surgery for an intestinal infection, his office said Monday. In a statement, his office said, "On Sunday, Senator McCain was admitted to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and underwent surgery to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis."

Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Campaign escalates into War of Missiles

As Mohammed Bin Salman's global tour continues in a bid to stabilise Riyadh's economy, his foreign policy needs revising to ensure political and security risks aren't deepening. After three years fighting in Yemen's civil war, the Houthis have stepped-up their strategy and are going after Saudi Arabia's economic enterprises.