Sun, Mar 7 2021

The Guardian

For an agency devoted to secrecy and surveillance, it is an embarrassing slip-up. An inadvertent disclosure on a university document has revealed that MI5 is partly behind what was meant to be a covert bug and drone research project. Ostensibly…

This report was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez. One of the most enduring parables in American culture is about “going Washington” — the one about the earnest do-gooder deciding to run for office on a pledge to be a…

Kanwalroop Singh had just finished presenting at the 2018 Students for Justice in Palestine conference at the University of California, Los Angeles when a student journalist asked her for an interview. Singh, a Sikh American who at the time was a…

The Sunday Times – Tim Shipman and Tim Ripley – Mar 6, 4:01 PM

Boris Johnson is building a White House-style situation room, costing more than £9 million, to be the government's command bunker for emergencies such as terrorist strikes and pandemics. The Situation Centre — or SitCen — is…

The Washington Post – Amy Brittain, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Tracy Jan – Mar 6, 5:30 PM

Two male aides who worked for Cuomo in the New York governor's office say he routinely berated them with explicit language, making comments such as calling them “pussies” and saying, “You have no balls.” And three women…