President Donald Trump suggested to a crowd at a rally in Florida that he may fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, after the election. CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen weighs in on the possibility.
Category: November 2020
On the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, a patch of grass a few kilometres from the White House portrays the human toll of America’s pandemic, which is laid out in long lines of fluttering white flags.
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The Electoral College, explained
Why some Americans’ votes count more than others.
Did Carl Sagan see 2020 coming 25 years ago? Here’s why some people think he did. A certain excerpt from The Demon Haunted World has gone viral countless times in the last few years, often being called prophetic and frightening. What does it really mean, though? Did Carl Sagan predict the future? Science denial, conspiracy theories, power disparities, media influence, and authoritarianism were all things he showed great concern over, but did he have sufficient reason for concern in his own time?
Some who worked in the Allied intelligence apparatus kept their vows of secrecy long after the end of the Second World War. Here are some of their stories.
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Milarepa Cave
Above the ancient village of Braga Under the Annapurna mountains is a place where Tibetan Jogin Milarepa lived, the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet’s greatest saint.