Author: Reporter

The first sign of discontent regarding Craig Counsell’s decision to leave the Milwaukee Brewers to manage the Chicago Cubs appeared in his hometown at the Little League field that bears his name. The word “ass” was spray-painted across Counsell’s name on the sign outside the ballpark at Whitefish Bay, the Milwaukee suburb where Counsell grew up and still lives. The sign was covered up on November 7, one day after the Cubs landed Counsell with a five-year deal worth over $40 million. The Brewers now must try to keep winning in Major League Baseball’s smallest market without the manager...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on November 8 for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down. Blinken’s outline of what Americans think should come next for Gaza also serves as a check on the postwar scenarios floated by officials of Israel’s hard-right government and its supporters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on November 6 that Israel’s military...

Making the posters, they said, came out of a desire to feel connected, and to do something to help. Artists Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid would normally have been at home in Tel Aviv with family and friends, but were instead in New York City to take part in an art program when Hamas fighters massacred more than 1,400 people in Israel on October 7. They channeled their anguish into creating posters bearing the names and faces of the more than 200 people taken hostage during the attack, each page blaring “KIDNAPPED” across the top. The goal was to...

Over a two-week period at the end of September and beginning of October, a criminally indicted Donald Trump said shoplifters should be immediately shot, suggested the United States’ top general be executed, and mocked a political opponent’s husband who was beaten with a hammer. The disgraced ex-president and current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination also recently encouraged the impeachment of Democratic President Joe Biden because the “lowlifes Impeached me TWICE,” urged his party to shut down the U.S. government with the hope it would stall some of the criminal cases he faces, and said that, if elected to...