Author: Staff

From detective to apiculturist: Why Sherlock Holmes found solace in nature when he retired

Few fictional characters have captured and endured for so long in the public’s imagination as Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant English detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Presumed to have died in the 1893 story “The Final Problem,” Holmes would live on and appear in subsequent stories until retiring to literary obscurity as a beekeeper. The fictional Holmes resided at 221B Baker Street, London, where he solved complex cases with the assistance of his loyal friend, Dr. John Watson. His arch-nemesis was Professor Moriarty, a criminal mastermind. Holmes was featured in four novels and fifty-six short stories, and became...

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Chinese retailers and Trump allies race to profit from merchandise depicting Butler rally aftermath

Images of the moment have already been splashed across the world’s front pages and papered many corners of the internet, former President Donald Trump with his ear bleeding and his right hand clenched in a fist above the Secret Service agents surrounding him after he was shot. And now they are available on T-shirts for as little as $4 on China’s e-commerce platforms. Over the weekend, Chinese retailers leaped into action on Taobao and JD.com, the country’s two biggest e-commerce platforms, to profit from the images after an assassination attempt on Trump at a rally on July 13. “Make...

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Milwaukee weighs costs and benefits of hosting the RNC after seeing an underwhelming economic reward

Downtown Milwaukee turned red for the week of July 15 as thousands of Republican National Convention delegates and other party stalwarts gathered in Wisconsin’s largest Democratic stronghold to formally rally behind convicted felon Donald Trump as their candidate for president in the pivotal swing state. Outside the security zone where the convention took place, residents grumbled, ignored, or shrugged their way through the event that served to galvanize the GOP and give Trump momentum. Milwaukee’s Democratic mayor, Cavalier Johnson, wasted no time in deeming the convention a success even though he will now turn his focus toward making sure...

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Conservative group hosts policy event outside RNC to defend its authoritarian Project 2025 guidebook

At the edge of the cordoned-off perimeter around the Republican National Convention on July 15, hundreds of conservatives filed into the ornate home of the Milwaukee Symphony to hear a parade of fascist luminaries talk about authoritarian policies and Project 2025 once Trump is re-elected. Project 2025 is the term for the Heritage Foundation’s nearly 1,000-page handbook for the next Republican administration, which has become a cudgel Democrats are wielding against former president and convicted felon Donald Trump, who on July 15 officially became the GOP’s presidential nominee. That is because the book proposes sweeping changes in the federal...

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Medical Silence: Health concerns follow Trump after withholding official info about his gunshot wound

For days after a registered Republican attempted to shoot former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment the Republican presidential nominee received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health. Trump’s campaign has refused to discuss the criminally convicted ex-president’s condition, release a medical report or records, or make the doctors who treated him available, leaving information to dribble out from Trump, his friends, and family. The first word on Trump’s condition came about half an hour after...

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January 6 curtain call: Takeaways from the third day of programming at Trump’s RNC pageant of fealty

Republicans were welcoming JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate on the same night devoted to blasting President Joe Biden’s leadership on the world stage. The 39-year-old Ohio senator accepted the vice presidential nomination on July 17. He was offered his exaggerated life story as a son of Appalachia, reaffirming Trump’s connections to Americans who align with Christian Nationalism and feel alienated socially, economically, and politically. But even as Republicans talked of Vance as a potential heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement, Day 3 programming at the Republican National Convention made clear that Trump – a convicted...

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