4 d. ago ‘Society needs monsters’: why are Americans so obsessed with the idea of serial killers?

Experts say there has been an 80% drop-off since serial killing peaked in the US in the 1970s – but that hasn’t stopped social media speculationFor the past two years, rumors of a serial killer have preoccupied residents of Austin, Texas, and beyond as body upon body kept turning up at a lake in the city. The killer was even given a name: the Rainey Street Ripper.But authorities now say some 36 drownings in the lake, near Rainey Street neighborhood, were probably related to alcohol and drug consumption and the reservoir’s proximity to the city’s famous bar scene. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Freeze and frost warnings hit more than 50 million Americans as temperatures drop

Thousands of Americans are killed by extreme cold and icy roads each year

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5 d. ago Trump declares trade war with Canada after 'fake' advert put out warning against him

US President Donald Trump hit out following an advert in Canada, which featured the voice of Ronald Reagan, warned Americans that tariffs could kill their jobs.

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6 d. ago Trump won’t go to Congress over war with drug cartels: ‘They’re gonna be, like, dead’

President says US is ‘just going to kill people’ as military accelerates campaign against South American regimes

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7 d. ago Trump says deadly strikes on suspected ‘narco boats’ are justified since 300,000 Americans were killed by drugs. He’s not even close

Critics have pointed out that Trump’s math on the number of drug deaths in the U.S. doesn’t add up

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3 w. ago Netflix star defends controversial Monster: The Ed Gein Story as series hit with backlash

Netflix's drama has come under fire for 'romanticising' a notorious American serial killer

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3 w. ago The 5 big Rangers next manager candidates rated and slated as board face one key question

The Ibrox club find themselves in the familiar position of searching for a new boss and our man Scott McDermott assesses those in the running

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3 w. ago ‘A club nobody wanted to be a part of’: Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice

Dozens of American citizens have been killed by Hamas and Israel – but the US government has taken a very different approach to the latterWithin hours after they were told that Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had been killed by an Israeli sniper while at a protest in the West Bank last year, her family was on a phone call with the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza more than two decades ago.The families were introduced by a mutual contact in Washington state, where both Corrie and 26-year-old Eygi had lived. There were other parallels in their stories: Corrie was protesting against the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Rafah when a soldier drove over her; Eygi was at a protest against settlement expansion near Nablus. Both had traveled to the region with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that for years has brought foreign activists to stand with Palestinians against Israel’s occupation. An Israeli ...

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4 w. ago As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

American attacks have killed more than 14 people they claim were drug traffickers in our waters. Now our islands are at risk of being dragged into a manufactured conflict we are ill-equipped to endureFor decades, the Caribbean has been caught in the slipstream of other people’s wars – from cold war proxy battles to Washington’s “war on drugs” and “war on terror”. Our islands have too often been turned into the frontlines for policies scripted elsewhere but fought in our waters, our communities, and on the backs of our most vulnerable.The recent US naval strikes against alleged “drug boats” leaving Venezuela, and the decision of Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to grant access to territorial waters without first consulting the Caribbean collective of developing countries, Caricom, risk dragging our islands into yet another manufactured storm. Continue reading...

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