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https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220329/Kyiv-Odesa-and-what-s-in-a-name | Odessa or Odesa? The Donbass or the Donbas?
Newsrooms have been busy debating the spelling of Ukrainian place names. Many of us in the media have long used Russian transliterations for some places, such as Odessa, while using Ukrainian ones for others, like Kyiv.
Starting this week, the Monitor has shifted entirely to ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220330/Leap-of-faith-How-an-interpreter-found-shelter-for-a-Ukrainian-family | Three weeks ago, Ali Willis got a phone call, and knew she had to go. Russian-speaking friends had gone to a Polish border town to help humanitarian workers with refugees, and more help was needed. Ukrainians, who generally know Russian but not Polish, were pouring in. Soon Ms. Willis, a communications professional in ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author-Q-As/2022/0331/Andrey-Kurkov-wrote-about-Ukrainians-caught-up-in-war.-Now-he-is-one | Loading...
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On the second day of the war, Andrey Kurkov, one of Ukraine’s most celebrated authors, left Kyiv. It took 22 hours to drive 260 miles to Lviv. He was safely ensconced in western Ukraine, but couldn’t keep writing the novel he had been working on. Instead, he’s taken it upon himself... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0331/Restoring-trust-in-US-elections | Loading...
One characteristic of countries with high voter confidence in the integrity of elections is public trust in the people who run elections. When that trust breaks down, as it has in much of the United States, restoring it can lead to hard questions – about the technology for ballot counting, as an example, or ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2022/0331/Quest-for-nuclear-fusion-is-advancing-powered-by-scientific-grit | Loading...
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For decades, scientists have aspired to create nuclear fusion – a carbon-free, potentially limitless power source. The path has been long, winding, and full of frustration.
But with an eye on the vital role that energy plays in humanity’s future, researchers are continuing to come ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2022/0331/Snapshot-in-amber-of-the-past-Astronomers-spot-farthest-star | Loading...
Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
But this luminous blue star is long gone, so massive that it almost certainly exploded into bits just a few million years after emerging. Its swift demise make... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2022/0331/Kid-in-space-Apollo-101-2-is-a-fanciful-take-on-youth | Loading...
Richard Linklater is a nostalgist in the best sense, and never more so than in his terrific new film, “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.” As a writer-director, he draws on his memories of the past in order to enhance his apprehension of the present. Best of all, he does so without the usual sentimentalizing... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2022/0331/In-Alabama-the-push-to-form-Amazon-labor-union-resumes | Loading...
For union organizers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, the second time could be a charm – or not.
After a crushing defeat last year, when a majority of workers voted against forming a union, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is hoping for a different outcome in a do-over ele... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0331/Arizona-Oklahoma-join-wave-of-transgender-sports-bans | Loading...
Republican governors in Oklahoma and Arizona both signed bills into law on Wednesday that prevent transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams, joining more than a dozen other states with similar laws.
Flanked by more than two dozen young female athletes, including his 14-year-old daught... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0331/Collins-to-back-Jackson-giving-Supreme-Court-nominee-GOP-support | Loading...
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Wednesday she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but ensuring that Judge Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Senator Collins met with Judge Jackson a second time this week after four... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0331/Election-year-wild-card-Blue-state-gerrymandering | Loading...
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If Democrats manage to hang on to their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after this fall’s midterm elections, it will be because of places like Glens Falls, New York.
For years it has been a small spot of blue in a mostly red Adirondack district. But it may beco... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0331/How-war-crimes-investigators-do-their-jobs-in-evidence-rich-Ukraine | Loading...
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The war in Ukraine, more than any conflict before, is on the record. With 70% of the country online, anyone connected can watch the war through civilian smartphones. Anyone, including war crime investigators.
A coalition of international investigators has come to document alleged w... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0331/Scum-and-traitors-Hostile-environs-for-Russia-s-anti-war-activists | Loading...
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In the second month of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russia’s social and political atmosphere – never very receptive to dissenting opinions – is rapidly chilling. For many Russians trying to feel their way through frightening political restrictions, the dangers remai... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2022/0401/Jury-awarded-14M-to-George-Floyd-protesters-in-Denver.-What-s-next?icid=rss | Loading...
A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits.
The jury found police used excessive force... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0401/Washington-State-creates-alert-system-for-missing-Indigenous-people?icid=rss | Loading...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people, to help address a silent crisis that has plagued Indian Country in the state and nationwide.
The law sets up a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called si... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2022/0401/These-Levi-s-traveled-18-000-miles.-What-that-says-about-global-inequality?icid=rss | Loading...
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Early one Saturday morning, the vendor hung a pair of bluejeans on his stall in a Johannesburg township. They were a pair of secondhand Levi’s 550s made in Lesotho.
Rorisang Kamoli works in the factories that produce for Levi Strauss & Co. in Lesotho. Years of quality control work ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0401/Putin-s-friendship-has-hampered-Europe-s-right.-Not-Hungary-s-Orban?icid=rss | Loading...
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Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing his toughest election yet on April 3, against a united opposition led by a Christian conservative. But the war in Ukraine has pushed traditional hot-button issues into the background – and looks likely to boost Europe’s sel... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220331/Monitor-contributor-faces-two-years-in-prison | Four times in 40 days, Fahad Shah was close to coming home. The Monitor contributor was arrested as India has clamped down on dissent in Kashmir. But each time he made bail, he was rearrested on a new charge. Now, the government has jailed him under the designation of “preventive detention,” which can last up to two ye... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220401 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author-Q-As/2022/0401/Happiness-is-love.-Decades-of-research-yield-a-timeless-truth | Loading...
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Arthur C. Brooks has spent years studying happiness. He teaches a class on happiness and leadership at Harvard Business School, worked closely with the Dalai Lama, and walked the Camino de Santiago – a 100-mile Roman Catholic meditation trail.
He has also turned a trove of personal... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2022/0401/A-million-barrels-a-day-Biden-to-release-oil-from-reserve | Loading...
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months, a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The presiden... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0401/A-light-of-impartial-justice | Loading...
In one of the world’s most unstable regions, the global drift toward authoritarianism has hit a wall, one draped in the red and black of judicial robes. Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled this week against President Uhuru Kenyatta, who had proposed constitutional changes that might have enabled him to remain influe... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2022/0401/Ice-shelf-collapse-Unknown-Antarctica-still-holds-surprises | Loading...
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In mid-March, a New York City-size mass called the Conger ice shelf collapsed completely – the first time in recorded history that this had happened in East Antarctica. This came at the tail end of a stunning heat wave in the region with temperatures that, while still cold, reached... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2022/0401/Jury-awarded-14M-to-George-Floyd-protesters-in-Denver.-What-s-next | Loading...
A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits.
The jury found police used excessive force... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0401/Washington-State-creates-alert-system-for-missing-Indigenous-people | Loading...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people, to help address a silent crisis that has plagued Indian Country in the state and nationwide.
The law sets up a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called si... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2022/0401/These-Levi-s-traveled-18-000-miles.-What-that-says-about-global-inequality | Loading...
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Early one Saturday morning, the vendor hung a pair of bluejeans on his stall in a Johannesburg township. They were a pair of secondhand Levi’s 550s made in Lesotho.
Rorisang Kamoli works in the factories that produce for Levi Strauss & Co. in Lesotho. Years of quality control work ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0401/Putin-s-friendship-has-hampered-Europe-s-right.-Not-Hungary-s-Orban | Loading...
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Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing his toughest election yet on April 3, against a united opposition led by a Christian conservative. But the war in Ukraine has pushed traditional hot-button issues into the background – and looks likely to boost Europe’s sel... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220402 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0403/As-Russia-retreats-from-Kyiv-signs-of-war-crimes-in-Bucha-Ukraine?icid=rss | Loading...
Ukraine and its Western allies reported mounting evidence this weekend of Russia withdrawing its forces from around Kyiv. But they also saw evidence of torture and executions, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city n... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220403 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0403/Why-Hungarian-voters-embrace-right-wing-leadership-again?icid=rss | Loading...
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in Sunday's national elections, claiming a mandate for a fourth term as a still incomplete vote count showed a strong lead for his right-wing party.
In a 10-minute speech to Fidesz party officials and supporters at an election night event in ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220403 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0403/As-Russia-retreats-from-Kyiv-signs-of-war-crimes-in-Bucha-Ukraine | Loading...
Ukraine and its Western allies reported mounting evidence this weekend of Russia withdrawing its forces from around Kyiv. But they also saw evidence of torture and executions, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.
As images of the bodies — of people whom residents sa... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0403/Why-Hungarian-voters-embrace-right-wing-leadership-again | Loading...
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in Sunday's national elections, claiming a mandate for a fourth term as a still incomplete vote count showed a strong lead for his right-wing party.
In a 10-minute speech to Fidesz party officials and supporters at an election night event in ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2022/0404/Costa-Rica-picks-a-new-president.-Can-he-restore-public-trust?icid=rss | Loading...
A former finance minister who surprised many by making it into Costa Rica’s presidential runoff has easily won the election and is to become the Central American country’s new leader next month while still fending off accusations of sexual harassment when he worked at the World Bank.
With nearly all polling ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2022/0404/Hong-Kong-s-Chief-Executive-Lam-to-retire-with-Beijing-in-control?icid=rss | Loading...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she wouldn’t seek a second term after a rocky five years marked by huge protests calling for her resignation, a security crackdown that has quashed dissent, and most recently a COVID-19 wave that overwhelmed the health system.
Her successor will be picked in May, with ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0404/Pakistan-PM-blocks-no-confidence-vote-sparks-political-turmoil?icid=rss | Loading...
Pakistan’s prime minister threw the country into political limbo on Sunday, accusing the United States of attempting to oust him and cancelling a no-confidence vote he was poised to lose. He then ordered the National Assembly dissolved so new elections can be held.
The moves by Imran Khan appeared to trigger... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0404/Sri-Lanka-in-turmoil-Cabinet-members-submit-mass-resignations?icid=rss | Loading...
Sri Lanka’s sports minister and the president’s nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, has resigned from his position amid growing public outrage over the country’s economic crisis and shortages of food, fuel, and medicines.
All 26 Cabinet ministers also handed in their resignations Sunday night to Prime Minister Mahinda ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2022/0404/Home-again-Bison-in-Oklahoma-and-anteaters-in-Argentina?icid=rss | Loading...
Success in bringing back populations of one species can also spawn attempts to boost others, using similar methods. Also on the environment, batteries are being recycled into fertilizer. And in human rights news, Latvia pays compensation to communities for the Holocaust, and Kuwait overturns an anti-transgen... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2022/0404/Schedulers-stumble-over-what-next-week-means | Loading...
If today is Monday, when is next Sunday? What about if today is Friday, or also a Sunday? Many appointments have been missed and many planners have been frustrated because the answer is not always the same, though theoretically, it should be. Next means “immediately adjacent (as in place, rank, or time),” as... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2022/0404/After-gloomy-Oscars-Grammys-and-Batiste-shine | Loading...
Jon Batiste had the most Grammy Award nominations and his five wins outpaced everyone, yet he somehow seemed the biggest surprise on a joyous night for music that washed away some of the bad taste left by the Oscars a week earlier.
Mr. Batiste’s “We Are” won the prestigious album of the year award Sunday ove... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2022/0404/Costa-Rica-picks-a-new-president.-Can-he-restore-public-trust | Loading...
A former finance minister who surprised many by making it into Costa Rica’s presidential runoff has easily won the election and is to become the Central American country’s new leader next month while still fending off accusations of sexual harassment when he worked at the World Bank.
With nearly all polling ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2022/0404/Hong-Kong-s-Chief-Executive-Lam-to-retire-with-Beijing-in-control | Loading...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she wouldn’t seek a second term after a rocky five years marked by huge protests calling for her resignation, a security crackdown that has quashed dissent, and most recently a COVID-19 wave that overwhelmed the health system.
Her successor will be picked in May, with ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0404/Pakistan-PM-blocks-no-confidence-vote-sparks-political-turmoil | Loading...
Pakistan’s prime minister threw the country into political limbo on Sunday, accusing the United States of attempting to oust him and cancelling a no-confidence vote he was poised to lose. He then ordered the National Assembly dissolved so new elections can be held.
The moves by Imran Khan appeared to trigger... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0404/Sri-Lanka-in-turmoil-Cabinet-members-submit-mass-resignations | Loading...
Sri Lanka’s sports minister and the president’s nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, has resigned from his position amid growing public outrage over the country’s economic crisis and shortages of food, fuel, and medicines.
All 26 Cabinet ministers also handed in their resignations Sunday night to Prime Minister Mahinda ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2022/0404/Home-again-Bison-in-Oklahoma-and-anteaters-in-Argentina | Loading...
Success in bringing back populations of one species can also spawn attempts to boost others, using similar methods. Also on the environment, batteries are being recycled into fertilizer. And in human rights news, Latvia pays compensation to communities for the Holocaust, and Kuwait overturns an anti-transgen... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0404/Rage-from-the-right-Threats-against-lawmakers-rise-for-the-GOP-too?icid=rss | Loading...
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Threats of violence against U.S. lawmakers hit a new high in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat and his subsequent impeachment over the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The number of threats doubled last year to roughly 9,600, according to the Capitol Polic... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0404/Traitor-or-scapegoat-How-one-cop-became-the-face-of-Jan.-6?icid=rss | Loading...
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As the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 continues to interview key witnesses, the Department of Justice is prosecuting individuals who participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. More than 775 defendants have been arrested so far; 244 have pleaded guilty, while two h... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220404 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0404/China-s-shift-on-transparent-audits | Loading...
On Saturday, China seemed to adopt a set of values that has kept the global economy humming. Its top securities watchdog proposed to modify secrecy rules and grant foreign regulators access to the auditing reports of Chinese firms listed on overseas exchanges.
This could be a big win for more honesty and tra... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0404/Rage-from-the-right-Threats-against-lawmakers-rise-for-the-GOP-too | Loading...
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Threats of violence against U.S. lawmakers hit a new high in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat and his subsequent impeachment over the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The number of threats doubled last year to roughly 9,600, according to the Capitol Polic... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0404/Traitor-or-scapegoat-How-one-cop-became-the-face-of-Jan.-6 | Loading...
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As the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 continues to interview key witnesses, the Department of Justice is prosecuting individuals who participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. More than 775 defendants have been arrested so far; 244 have pleaded guilty, while two h... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0405/How-much-will-Europeans-sacrifice-to-save-Ukraine?icid=rss | Loading...
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Ukraine has resisted Russia’s invasion more successfully than most people had expected. But now its future hinges on a simple question: how long Kyiv’s Western allies can maintain their unity.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping to defeat the assault as quickly as possible. But... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0405/Judge-Jackson-secures-three-GOP-votes-before-Senate-confirmation?icid=rss | Loading...
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she’ll become the first Black female justice.
The senators from Alaska a... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220401/For-Ukrainian-refugee-children-add-another-necessity-Books | When you think about the basic needs of Ukrainian refugee children, books would seem to occupy a place much farther down the list than food, clothing, and shelter. But for Maria Deskur, CEO of Poland’s Universal Reading Foundation, the idea of giving books to children is nearly as urgent.
“The help for kids here is cru... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220404/A-Monitor-guest-Ukrainian-Ambassador-Oksana-Markarova | Oksana Markarova became Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States just a year ago. Her job, an already challenging one amid rising concern about Russian aggression, soon took on monumental proportions. Russia invaded Ukraine – and Ambassador Markarova was charged with managing one of her country’s most crucial relation... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0405/Roads-broke-up-an-endangered-monkey-s-habitat.-Can-bridges-fix-it?icid=rss | Loading...
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High up the hill road leading to Malaysia’s Penang National Park, cars and motorbikes zip by the forest at great speeds. Some 40 feet above a particularly busy turn, almost invisible to the casual observer, hangs an aerial bridge made of rope and recycled fire hoses. It’s easy to m... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0405/Why-are-Indonesia-and-others-moving-their-capitals-Three-questions?icid=rss | Loading...
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Dozens of countries around the world have relocated their capitals over the past century, often to new cities designed specifically to serve as capitals, and established in relatively undeveloped areas. Just this year, Indonesia’s parliament greenlighted the move to ditch bustling ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2022/0405/Preserved-by-students-WWII-internment-camp-becomes-national-park?icid=rss | Loading...
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Last month, President Joe Biden designated Amache, a World War II Japanese American internment camp, as a national park. For years, camp survivors and descendants have visited the site, welcomed by a local educator in nearby Granada, Colorado.
Over almost 30 years, John Hopper, dea... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0405/How-Navajo-are-turning-on-taps-even-in-remote-dry-areas?icid=rss | Loading...
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About 1 in 3 residents of the arid expanse of the Navajo Nation – larger than the state of West Virginia – lack running water in their homes. When the pandemic hit, and health experts advised people to thoroughly wash their hands, the lack of that basic service began to receive wid... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220405 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2022/0405/Built-by-workers-Amazon-employees-win-their-first-union | Loading...
When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized vi... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0405/As-the-pandemic-ends-more-rulers-face-scrutiny | Loading...
There is a broad consensus among global observers that the pandemic has harmed democracy. Yet as the face masks come off and normal life resumes, another trend is emerging: By exacerbating the impact of corruption and economic mismanagement, the pandemic has sharpened a yearning for better governance, from C... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2022/0405/Earth-needs-climate-action-not-climate-doomism-scientists-say | Loading...
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way.
Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including Monday’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2022/0405/Elon-Musk-became-Twitter-s-biggest-shareholder.-What-s-next | Loading...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder while joining other critics in questioning the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment.
Mr. Musk’s ultimate aim in acquiring 73.5 million shares, worth about $3 billion, isn’t clear. Yet... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0405/Judge-Jackson-secures-three-GOP-votes-before-Senate-confirmation | Loading...
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she’ll become the first Black female justice.
The senators from Alaska a... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0405/How-Navajo-are-turning-on-taps-even-in-remote-dry-areas | Loading...
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About 1 in 3 residents of the arid expanse of the Navajo Nation – larger than the state of West Virginia – lack running water in their homes. When the pandemic hit, and health experts advised people to thoroughly wash their hands, the lack of that basic service began to receive wid... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0405/How-much-will-Europeans-sacrifice-to-save-Ukraine | Loading...
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Ukraine has resisted Russia’s invasion more successfully than most people had expected. But now its future hinges on a simple question: how long Kyiv’s Western allies can maintain their unity.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping to defeat the assault as quickly as possible. But... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0405/Roads-broke-up-an-endangered-monkey-s-habitat.-Can-bridges-fix-it | Loading...
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High up the hill road leading to Malaysia’s Penang National Park, cars and motorbikes zip by the forest at great speeds. Some 40 feet above a particularly busy turn, almost invisible to the casual observer, hangs an aerial bridge made of rope and recycled fire hoses. It’s easy to m... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0405/Why-are-Indonesia-and-others-moving-their-capitals-Three-questions | Loading...
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Dozens of countries around the world have relocated their capitals over the past century, often to new cities designed specifically to serve as capitals, and established in relatively undeveloped areas. Just this year, Indonesia’s parliament greenlighted the move to ditch bustling ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2022/0405/Preserved-by-students-WWII-internment-camp-becomes-national-park | Loading...
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Last month, President Joe Biden designated Amache, a World War II Japanese American internment camp, as a national park. For years, camp survivors and descendants have visited the site, welcomed by a local educator in nearby Granada, Colorado.
Over almost 30 years, John Hopper, dea... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2022/0406/Jefferson-s-travel-advice-inspires-a-trip-and-a-reckoning | Loading...
Derek Baxter says that Thomas Jefferson has long been his hero, and he has the proof: He began visiting the Founding Father’s home, Monticello, as a child; starred as Jefferson in a fourth-grade play; took his prom date to the Jefferson Memorial; and majored in history at the Jefferson-founded University of ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2022/0406/Why-did-you-make-that-decision-AI-systems-learn-to-explain | Loading...
Microsoft Corp’s LinkedIn boosted subscription revenue by 8% after arming its sales team with artificial intelligence software that not only predicts clients at risk of canceling, but also explains how it arrived at its conclusion.
The system, introduced last July and to be described in a LinkedIn blog post ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2022/0406/I-have-two-adopted-sons-One-Russian-one-Ukrainian | Loading...
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As I watch tragic scenes in Ukraine, I cannot help reflecting on the light they throw on my family. I am the father of two adopted boys, one from Russia and the other from Ukraine.
Young men now, they still carry a strong sense of their origins, although Alyosha less so than Anton.... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2022/0406/Gratitude-and-grief-mark-Afghan-refugees-first-US-Ramadan | Loading...
Sitting cross-legged on the floor as his wife and six children laid plates of fruit on a red cloth in front of him, Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watched through the open balcony door for the sliver of new moon to appear in the cloudless New Mexico sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain.
Then, munching ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0406/Biden-administration-to-extend-freeze-on-student-loan-payments | Loading...
The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House’s decision-making.
Student loan pay... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0406/From-rural-France-warning-signs-for-Macron-s-election-bid | Loading...
Health worker Josiane Comtesse is almost certain she will vote for President Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s presidential election, but then she reflects on his plan to make the French work longer and her perception that he is arrogant, and she thinks again.
Like many in the rural Normandy town of Vire, for deca... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2022/0406/Gratitude-and-grief-mark-Afghan-refugees-first-US-Ramadan?icid=rss | Loading...
Sitting cross-legged on the floor as his wife and six children laid plates of fruit on a red cloth in front of him, Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watched through the open balcony door for the sliver of new moon to appear in the cloudless New Mexico sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain.
Then, munching ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0406/Biden-administration-to-extend-freeze-on-student-loan-payments?icid=rss | Loading...
The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House’s decision-making.
Student loan pay... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0406/From-rural-France-warning-signs-for-Macron-s-election-bid?icid=rss | Loading...
Health worker Josiane Comtesse is almost certain she will vote for President Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s presidential election, but then she reflects on his plan to make the French work longer and her perception that he is arrogant, and she thinks again.
Like many in the rural Normandy town of Vire, for deca... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0406/Does-rape-within-marriage-count-To-India-s-courts-no?icid=rss | Loading...
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In one of Mumbai’s sprawling informal settlements, Amina faced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse from her spouse for nearly 20 years. “I always felt like what was happening to me was wrong,” says Amina, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, “but then I’d think, h... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2022/0406/The-West-has-united-against-Putin-s-war.-Not-Africa?icid=rss | Loading...
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When the United Nations General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority last month to call for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, half of the 35 countries that abstained – refusing to condemn Moscow – were from Africa, and another seven African representatives did not sh... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2022/0406/Biden-adviser-Sanctions-on-Russia-are-working-and-getting-tougher?icid=rss | Loading...
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Sometimes, it seems, Americans are living in two economies. There’s the one that’s undergoing an extraordinary recovery from the pandemic shock, with 11 straight months of job gains topping 400,000, unemployment down to 3.6%, and rising wages.
Then there’s the economy of high energ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0406/Tear-gas-arrogance-and-resistance-Life-in-Russia-occupied-Kherson?icid=rss | Loading...
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Evidence of the cruelty the Russian military is capable of inflicting upon civilians is being revealed now in Bucha, Ukraine, northwest of the capital, Kyiv. Yet even in Kherson, near the Black Sea, where Russia may want to win over citizens to create a pro-Russian statelet, the oc... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220406 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2022/0406/How-Julia-Morgan-became-an-architectural-pioneer-in-a-man-s-world | Loading...
On her first visit to Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, author Victoria Kastner heard the tour guide explain that “an architect named Julia Morgan built this entire estate” – complete with interior design and landscaping – “but we don’t know anything about her.” Kastner’s curiosity was piqued, and she... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0406/Why-this-UN-climate-report-is-different | Loading...
The latest United Nations climate report, released Monday at some 3,000 pages, came with at least one surprise. It agreed with a few big oil exporters, such as Saudi Arabia, that the goal of halting global heating will require the capture of carbon pollutants and either burying or reusing them. Carbon remova... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2022/0406/Biden-adviser-Sanctions-on-Russia-are-working-and-getting-tougher | Loading...
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Sometimes, it seems, Americans are living in two economies. There’s the one that’s undergoing an extraordinary recovery from the pandemic shock, with 11 straight months of job gains topping 400,000, unemployment down to 3.6%, and rising wages.
Then there’s the economy of high energ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2022/0406/The-West-has-united-against-Putin-s-war.-Not-Africa | Loading...
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When the United Nations General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority last month to call for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, half of the 35 countries that abstained – refusing to condemn Moscow – were from Africa, and another seven African representatives did not sh... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0406/Does-rape-within-marriage-count-To-India-s-courts-no | Loading...
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In one of Mumbai’s sprawling informal settlements, Amina faced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse from her spouse for nearly 20 years. “I always felt like what was happening to me was wrong,” says Amina, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, “but then I’d think, h... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0406/Tear-gas-arrogance-and-resistance-Life-in-Russia-occupied-Kherson | Loading...
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Evidence of the cruelty the Russian military is capable of inflicting upon civilians is being revealed now in Bucha, Ukraine, northwest of the capital, Kyiv. Yet even in Kherson, near the Black Sea, where Russia may want to win over citizens to create a pro-Russian statelet, the oc... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220405/Reporters-on-the-job-The-moment-I-will-never-forget | I didn’t expect laughter.
But then, having spent my life surrounded by people with running water at home (including my home), I had no idea how a person would react to getting it for the first time.
This wasn’t my first time interviewing someone without this basic service. In South Texas in 2018, I’d been struck by how... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0407/Reviving-Navajo-identity-one-sheep-at-a-time?icid=rss | Loading...
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The Navajo, who refer to themselves as Diné, have long been a pastoral society. Sheep are prominent in their creation myths, and after Spanish colonists first brought the churro sheep to the Southwest, the hardy, adaptable breed became, over centuries, the heart of a self-sufficien... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0407/US-to-follow-Canada-confront-Native-boarding-school-past?icid=rss | Loading...
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.
Church schools are likely to feature prominently in ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2022/0407/Giving-back-is-a-universal-form-of-faith.-Can-Tunisia-revive-unused-trusts?icid=rss | Loading...
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In Tunisia, as the economy falters, unemployment soars, and the ranks of vulnerable people swell, activists are seeking to give new life to a centuries-old social safety net.
Seven decades after the country cast off the vestiges of the traditional Islamic welfare system known regio... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2022/0407/Turkey-hands-Khashoggi-case-over-to-Saudi-Arabia-sparking-outcry?icid=rss | Loading...
A Turkish court decided Thursday to transfer the trial of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, raising fears that those responsible for the death of the Washington Post columnist won’t be brought to justice for a crime that drew international outrage.
The decision, wh... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0407/Brain-gain-Universities-worldwide-step-up-to-help-Ukrainian-scholars?icid=rss | Loading...
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Members of the global higher education community are rallying to help scholars who have left Ukraine or who are internally displaced after Russia invaded six weeks ago. Their assistance offers a lifeline to fleeing residents, but also promises less interruption to Ukrainian scholar... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0407/Preemptive-suit-Michigan-governor-sues-to-protect-abortion-rights?icid=rss | Loading...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sued Thursday to protect abortion rights, asking a Michigan court to recognize a right to abortion under the state constitution and to overturn a 176-year-old ban in the state that may take effect if the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling is vacated.
The Democratic governor’s preemptive lawsui... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2022/0407/Pakistan-s-victory-for-rule-of-law | Loading...
After a tense five-day political standoff that left Pakistan without a government, the Supreme Court ruled on April 7 that Prime Minister Imran Khan “was not within his rights” when he dissolved Parliament to thwart a vote to remove him from power.
The high court’s decision did more than affirm the constitut... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0407/Brain-gain-Universities-worldwide-step-up-to-help-Ukrainian-scholars | Loading...
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Members of the global higher education community are rallying to help scholars who have left Ukraine or who are internally displaced after Russia invaded six weeks ago. Their assistance offers a lifeline to fleeing residents, but also promises less interruption to Ukrainian scholar... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0407/Jackson-headed-to-Supreme-Court.-Why-was-it-such-a-nailbiter | Loading...
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In a historic vote today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court. The 53-47 vote was split largely along party lines, with three Republicans supporting her.
Over the past several decades, the Senate has gone fro... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0407/Preemptive-suit-Michigan-governor-sues-to-protect-abortion-rights | Loading...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sued Thursday to protect abortion rights, asking a Michigan court to recognize a right to abortion under the state constitution and to overturn a 176-year-old ban in the state that may take effect if the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling is vacated.
The Democratic governor’s preemptive lawsui... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0407/Reviving-Navajo-identity-one-sheep-at-a-time | Loading...
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The Navajo, who refer to themselves as Diné, have long been a pastoral society. Sheep are prominent in their creation myths, and after Spanish colonists first brought the churro sheep to the Southwest, the hardy, adaptable breed became, over centuries, the heart of a self-sufficien... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0407/US-to-follow-Canada-confront-Native-boarding-school-past | Loading...
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.
Church schools are likely to feature prominently in ... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0407/Retreat-not-defeat-What-Ukraine-war-means-for-globalization | Loading...
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Russian consumers of luxury European goods and American fast food are learning the lessons of what economists describe as the “deglobalizing” effects of the Ukraine war. So are families in developing countries dependent on Ukrainian wheat, and even German automakers whose supply ch... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2022/0407/Giving-back-is-a-universal-form-of-faith.-Can-Tunisia-revive-unused-trusts | Loading...
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In Tunisia, as the economy falters, unemployment soars, and the ranks of vulnerable people swell, activists are seeking to give new life to a centuries-old social safety net.
Seven decades after the country cast off the vestiges of the traditional Islamic welfare system known regio... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2022/0407/Turkey-hands-Khashoggi-case-over-to-Saudi-Arabia-sparking-outcry | Loading...
A Turkish court decided Thursday to transfer the trial of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, raising fears that those responsible for the death of the Washington Post columnist won’t be brought to justice for a crime that drew international outrage.
The decision, wh... | true | true | both | www.csmonitor | 20220407 |
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