HONG KONG — An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government‘s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub. “Glory to Hong Kong” was often sung by demonstrators during huge anti-government protests in 2019. The song […]
HONG KONG (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government‘s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub. “Glory to Hong Kong” was often sung by demonstrators during huge anti-government protests in 2019. The […]
The latest slogan at the college protests is particularly disturbing: “Glory to Our Martyrs.” It seems that there has been an Islamist turn on college campuses. I started noting this a few days ago, as videos of Muslim prayers and chants in Arabic began circulating, as well as of “instructors” teaching Hamas slogans to students […]
Americans of a certain age may be shocked to realize that the Kent State University shootings happened 54 years ago next month, on May 4, 1970. On that day, in the midst of violent campus protests, National Guardsmen killed four students, igniting a firestorm in a country that was already a powder keg. […]
This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 11:1–10: When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no […]
The family behind an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as the centerpiece of a billion-dollar development honoring veterans in rural Down East Maine is abandoning the idea, an attorney said Friday. The Worcester family won’t pursue the flagpole project in Washington County or elsewhere for the time being and will look instead […]
San Francisco was down 17 points at halftime against a Detroit Lions team that had the 49ers contained. But the 49ers came back from the 24-7 halftime score, riding quarterback Brock Purdy’s scrambling and passing to become the NFC champions with a 34-31 victory over the Lions, according to ESPN. After the game, Purdy was […]
BEDFORD, Pa. — For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department No. 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn’t for the old Bedford Springs Hotel — a primarily wooden structure built when Thomas Jefferson was president that was sitting abandoned just a mile […]
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