• 17 Indian Authors Whose Works are Entering Public Domain in 2021 https://pothi.com/blog/2021/01/01/india-public-domain-2021-indian-authors-outofcopyright/ 6 comments 4/1/2021 books
• Authorities on Tuesday identified the suspect in the shooting deaths of 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, whose brother said he was deeply disturbed. https://news.yahoo.com/cops-identify-suspect-boulder-supermarket-150041598.html 2 comments 23/3/2021 wikileaks
• Code Shelter: collective to help maintain popular OSS whose authors need a hand or don't have the time any more https://www.codeshelter.co/ 24 comments 3/1/2021 linux
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to make it legal to shoot protesters | Citizens would be authorized to use force against those whose actions result in the "interruption or impairment" of businesses https://www.mic.com/p/florida-gov-ron-desantis-wants-to-make-it-legal-to-shoot-protesters-42933472 111 comments 11/11/2020 politics
• Belarus authorities strip accreditation from foreign journalists - BBC journalists among those whose accreditation is revoked before fresh protests against election results https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/29/belarus-authorities-strip-accreditation-from-foreign-journalists 17 comments 29/8/2020 worldnews
• Whose alpha male is this? Donald Trump and America's sad, failed model of masculinity. As author Tom Digby explains, Trump's "cartoon masculinity" is a desperate attempt to cling to a fading ideal https://www.salon.com/2020/08/22/whose-alpha-male-is-this-donald-trump-and-americas-sad-failed-model-of-masculinity/ 156 comments 22/8/2020 politics
• Vietnam has detected its first locally transmitted case of coronavirus in nearly 100 days, authorities said on Saturday, in a country whose swift and full lockdown won praise for controlling the spread of the disease. https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1957399/vietnam-sees-first-covid-case-in-100-days 471 comments 25/7/2020 worldnews
• Amid Challenges to His Authority, Xi Appeals for Loyalty — Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whose authority has been badly dented due to his regime’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak, has urged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials to remain loyal to his leadership. https://theepochtimes.com/amid-challenges-to-his-authority-xi-appeals-for-loyalty_3326711.html 43 comments 26/4/2020 worldnews
• Hong Kong Edu Secretary Yeung has warned that school principals if local schools refuse to accept government requests to investigate teachers whose speech or act are related to recent protest, or if the principals themselves back the teachers’ actions, the govt has the full authority to sack them https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1500053-20191229.htm?sptabchangeable=0 11 comments 30/12/2019 worldnews
• Authorities in Paraguay have launched an investigation after human remains were found at a property once owned by the former rightwing dictator Alfredo Stroessner, during whose 35-year authoritarian rule at least 423 people were killed or forcibly disappeared. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/paraguay-alfredo-stroessner-human-remains 8 comments 8/9/2019 worldnews
• Why Is This Happening? How to impeach a president with Brenda Wineapple: podcast and transcript. Chris Hayes speaks to author Brenda Wineapple about Andrew Johnson, the white supremacist president whose impeachment reveals a wild truth about the history of this country. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/how-impeach-president-brenda-wineapple-podcast-transcript-ncna1019066 3 comments 25/6/2019 politics
• Nebraska governor refuses to sign proclamation honoring book whose author criticized Trump https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/424354-gop-nebraska-governor-refuses-to-sign-proclamation-honoring-author-who 27 comments 10/1/2019 books
• The Author Whose Work Ann Coulter Cited To Defend Family Separations Says Coulter Must Be Illiterate https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/ann-coulter-new-yorker-article-suketu-mehta-fact-check 3 comments 19/6/2018 politics
• Cauchy, Infinitesimals And Ghosts Of Departed Quantifiers [PDF]: "The historiography of mathematics as practiced by historians whose training was limited to a Weierstrassian framework falls short of the target when analyzing many of the great historical authors" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00226.pdf 4 comments 5/12/2017 math
• Food outlets in Muslim-majority Malaysia must rename hotdogs or risk being refused halal certification, a government religious authority said Tuesday. The ruling, which also includes other food items whose name includes the word "dog", has garnered much ridicule on social media. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hotdogs-set-name-change-muslim-malaysia-001006357.html 50 comments 18/10/2016 worldnews
• "Pope Francis has authorized the French church to start the preliminary sainthood investigation for the Rev. Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by Islamic militants as he celebrated Mass in July [2016]." http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9e24fbfdccd74c3281eb729891d10bda/pope-oks-start-sainthood-probe-slain-french-priest 3 comments 8/10/2016 italy
• The gunman whose rampage at a Munich mall left nine people dead was a depression-plagued teenager who avidly read books and articles about mass killings and apparently tried to lure young victims to their deaths through a faked Facebook posting, authorities said Saturday. http://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/police-searching-motive-munich-shooting-10-dead-40819245 43 comments 23/7/2016 worldnews
• Man Whose House Was Torched Apologizes for Criticism of Kadyrov - A man who saw his house burnt down after he criticized the authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic has publicly apologized for making the complaints http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/man-whose-house-was-torched-apologizes-for-criticism-of-kadyrov/571077.html 4 comments 25/6/2016 europe
• The Azerbaijani authorities have arrested a bus driver whose vehicle injured three teenage Austrian swimmers ahead of Baku's European Games. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33122334 3 comments 13/6/2015 worldnews
• I'm Tess Gerritsen, author of the Rizzoli and Isles crime series. In my new book DIE AGAIN, Detective Jane Rizzoli and M.E. Maura Isles hunt for a killer whose crimes span continents. The vital clue to his identity lies in a remote corner of Africa. AMA! http://www.tessgerritsen.com/ 66 comments 8/1/2015 books
• The Facebook Page Where Iran’s Women Are Unveiling Online: Meet the young Iranian exile whose stealth Facebook page—it allows women to post pictures of themselves without their hijabs—has outraged the authorities in Tehran. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/18/the-facebook-page-where-iran-s-women-are-unveiling-online.html 5 comments 18/5/2014 worldnews
• "[Russian] Bloggers will be obliged to declare their family name and initials and e-mail address. Those authors whose personal website or page in social networks has 3,000 visitors or more a day must have themselves registered on a special list and abide by restrictions applicable to the mass media. http://en.itar-tass.com/opinions/1750 5 comments 24/4/2014 technology
• Remembering Nelson Mandela, the author: "Mandela, political leader and international icon of liberation, was also a wordsmith, an orator and writer whose eloquence was one of his most valuable tools in the fight for freedom in South Africa." http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/06/249215028/book-news-remembering-nelson-mandela-the-author 33 comments 9/12/2013 books
• Afghan militants target, kill female author: n Indian author whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban became a Bollywood movie was shot dead by militants in Afghanistan, police said Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/afghanistan-indian-author-killed/index.html?sr=reddit 3 comments 6/9/2013 worldnews
• Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: 7 fiction authors whose careers were extended by ghostwriters http://www.avclub.com/articles/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain-7-f,101553/ 27 comments 14/8/2013 books
• Reddit, help please. If you purchase After Life, Inc. for $4.99 not only are you getting a fun science fiction read, you are also helping out a struggling author working a full time job whose car is breaking down. http://www.amazon.com/After-Life-Inc-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B008PHPCSU 3 comments 13/6/2013 books
• Obama, whose reces appointments are now being described as unconstitutional power grabs, used that authority less than half as often at GWB and 1/3 as often as Reagan http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/04/397589/president-obama-has-made-far-fewer-recess-appointments-than-any-recent-president/ 28 comments 25/1/2013 politics
• The father of an Indian student whose brutal rape provoked a global outcry said he wanted her name made public so she could be an inspiration to victims of sexual assault, a call that was quickly taken up by social media users and may pressure authorities to allow her identity to be revealed. http://news.yahoo.com/indian-rape-victims-father-says-wants-her-named-003200102.html 13 comments 6/1/2013 worldnews
• Irony? Paper by author whose attorneys sent cease-and-desist letter to Science Fraud retracted « Retraction Watch http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/irony-paper-by-author-whose-attorneys-sent-cease-and-desist-letter-to-science-fraud-retracted/#comments 5 comments 5/1/2013 science
• Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway 'after being denied abortion'. Health authorities in Ireland are investigating the death of a pregnant woman whose husband says she was denied an abortion following severe complications. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/14/ireland-woman-dies-after-abortion-refusal 7 comments 14/11/2012 worldnews
• Voter fraud "study," which showed voter ID laws actually benefit the minority communities whose votes they suppress, was authored by a Republican who pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/voter_fraud_study_horace_cooper_jack_abramoff.php 51 comments 3/8/2012 politics
• Assassinating Children - The assassination of 16-year-old American Abdulrahman al-Awlaki confirms that we now live in a country whose government has the unfettered authority to assassinate anyone it wants, adult or minor, foreigner or American, and remain mute about it. http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-27.asp 9 comments 28/10/2011 politics
• Rethinking Hemingway 50 years after his death: Ernest Hemingway's two competing personas — the hard-living macho man and the bohemian writer whose style influenced many other authors — have something to teach today's men http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hemingway-20110702,0,3840324.story 3 comments 2/7/2011 books
• "Authorities at Bangkok's international airport arrested a first-class passenger Friday [13 May 2011] whose suitcases were filled with baby leopards, panthers, a bear and monkeys. The animals had been drugged and were headed for Dubai." http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/baby-leopards-bear-found-in-bags-at-thai-airport-1377539.php 295 comments 13/5/2011 worldnews
• Pirate Party members are discussing plans for a high-altitude balloon that would host a filesharing site in the sky, ideally out of the legal reach of any authorities whose intellectual property regulations could have it shut down. http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/10/19/pirates-in-the-sky-filesharers-want-to-build-weather-balloon-hosted-download-site/ 3 comments 20/10/2010 reddit.com
• The Palestinian Authority’s decision to negotiate directly with Israel drew strong condemnation over the weekend from most of the Palestinian factions, whose leaders and spokesmen accused President Mahmoud Abbas of “surrendering” to American and Israeli pressure http://www.jpost.com/israel/article.aspx?id=185528&2 76 comments 22/8/2010 worldnews
• Learning from our neighbors: an interview with author T.R. Reid, whose book, “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care,” couldn’t hit the shelves at a better time. http://www.realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/3087/ 6 comments 31/8/2009 politics
• Dish Network and some of its authorized dealers were sued Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for making sales calls to people whose numbers are on the federal do-not-call registry. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343853,00.asp 8 comments 25/3/2009 reddit.com
• 10 Best Science Fiction Planets - Sometimes an author will create a world whose presence has a weight and ring of truth. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2008/08/15/10-best-science-fiction-planets/ 27 comments 19/8/2008 science
• David Brooks of the NYT gets schooled by author whose book he apparently didn't read http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/letters-t-2.html 36 comments 29/9/2007 reddit.com