By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/3/2024 8:25 AM
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is bracing for a no-confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday in which parties from the left and the right are expected to join forces to oust him after he forced through his budget. ... Read full Story
Police say the name and any further information about the Canadian won't be provided until they're sure family notifications have been carried out. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/3/2024 3:29 AM
A Vietnamese appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for wealthy real estate entrepreneur Truong My Lan, local media reported. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 5:57 PM
The Oxford University Press -- the publishing house of the University of Oxford -- announced that "brain rot" is the 2024 Word of the Year after more than 37,000 votes and an analysis of its use, particularly online. ... Read full Story
The ads are part of a broader shift in tone by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on immigration and an effort to clamp down on refugee claims. ... Read full Story
There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 2:30 PM
Hezbollah fired Monday evening at an Israeli Army post in a south Lebanon border area in a first such response to alleged repeated Israeli violations of a cease-fire agreement achieved last week. ... Read full Story
The Iran-backed group, officially known as Ansarallah, has contributed to unrest in the Middle East by attacking commercial and naval vessels in the Red Sea for over a year. ... Read full Story
'Brain rot' is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially due to overconsumption of "trivial or unchallenging" material. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 1:04 PM
The Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned three individuals for human trafficking and sexual violence against children at a state-run orphanage in Uzbekistan. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 12:39 PM
An Israeli Defense Forces soldier originally from Long Island, New York and previously thought to be held hostage by the militant group Hamas is dead, Israeli officials confirmed on Monday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 12:10 PM
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has avoided a death sentence and been unexpectedly set free from prison after nearly two years, according to his family. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 11:58 AM
Officials from almost 100 countries are at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, asking the court to issue an opinion on the responsibility of certain nations to protect the planet from climate change. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 10:40 AM
Norway's government reached an agreement with a small progressive party to not mine in the Arctic in exchange for it supporting its budget. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 10:01 AM
Demonstrators in the Georgian capital Tbilisi clashed with police for a fourth night of protests sparked by the ruling pro-Russia Georgia Dream Party's decision to suspend the country's bid to join the European Union. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 8:49 AM
Workers at nine of Volkswagen's care and component factories in Germany were on strike Monday amid a dispute over labor contract changes and factory closings. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 8:20 AM
At least 56 people were killed, including some children, in a stampede at a soccer match in southern Guinea after fans of the visiting team took exception to a series of calls by the referee. ... Read full Story
Fifty-six people were killed and several injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in southern Guinea, following clashes between fans, Guinea’s government said Monday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 12/2/2024 7:42 AM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Monday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country as he pledged continued support against Russia's invasion since 2022. ... Read full Story
“Scheduled work shifts [at Burning Man] were delayed and continually rearranged, causing confusion among campers as to how and when to contribute.... While some of us found ways to help, others took it as an opportunity to eschew their responsibilities. However, those of us who showed up united, and handled business, did so with aplomb...” — Morena Duwe, The Los Angeles Times, 9 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
Something to chew on: there’s no etymological relationship between the verbs chew and eschew. While the former comes from the Old English word cēowan, eschew comes instead from the Anglo-French verb eschiver and shares roots with the Old High German verb sciuhen, meaning “to frighten off.” In his famous dictionary of 1755, Samuel Johnson characterized eschew as “almost obsolete.” History has proven that the great lexicographer was wrong on that call, however. Today, following a boom in the word’s usage during the 19th and 20th centuries, English speakers and writers use eschew when something is avoided less for temperamental reasons than for moral or practical ones, even if misguidedly so, as when Barry Lopez wrote in his 2019 book Horizon of ill-fated Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, “with an attitude of cultural superiority, eschewing sled dogs for Manchurian ponies....”