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1. Cuba libre? President Raul Castro has granted Cubans more religious freedom in recent months, and even said that Pope Francis has inspired him to consider joining the Catholic Church. Castro is expected to attend the Pope’s public Masses in Cuba, and Vatican officials have hinted that Francis may meet […]

Dabiq’s few remaining men worked on the odd building project: a half-finished mosque, a humble house for one local who had just returned after 10 years labouring in Lebanon, or a fence for the shrine that was the town’s only showpiece – the tomb of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. The […]

#CIA #ZeroDarkThity Osama bin Laden Sony / Columbia Pictures "Zero Dark Thirty" has always been controversial. The movie depicted the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden and the eventual Navy SEAL raid that killed him. Even before it was released in December 2012, the movie had kicked off a firestorm […]

September 11, 2001 #9/11 #9/10: The Day Before #HappeningNow This essay was originally published inGear in 2002. It has been republished here with permission from publisher Bob Guccione Jr. On Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer was talking about the deluge of reality TV on the fall schedules. The news was […]

#VenusWilliams vs. #SerenaWilliams making history at U.S. Open #HappeningNow “I don’t really feel like if I win this tournament it’s going to make or break my career,” Serena, 33, said in her post-match news conference Sunday after defeating Madison Keys. “I look at it that way.” Any way you look […]