Month: October 2020

Karl Lagerfeld’s eponymous label is teaming up with three DJs for its latest collection to celebrate the late designer’s love for music and support for young talent. The Parisian label is working with Siobhan Bell, Chelina Manuhutu and Tokimonsta on the Karl Lagerfeld x Music collection. Each has edited their favourite looks from the Karl Lagerfeld AW20 collection and curated a bespoke playlist for the designer to be featured on their individual Spotify accounts. Each…

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Inciting public protests and a walkout by opposition lawmakers, Japan’s lower house of parliament passed a set of controversial security bills on Thursday, paving the way for the country’s military to potentially fight abroad for the first time since World War II. The move offered further evidence of the pacifist nation’s march toward militarism, with one protester telling NBC News: “This is going to make it easier to go to war. It’s wrong.” According to…

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The coordinated assault on women’s healthcare providers continued on Thursday, as the websites for two major reproductive health groups—Planned Parenthood and the National Network of Abortion Funds—were shut down following alleged cyberattacks. Planned Parenthood’s website was reportedly hacked on Wednesday afternoon, in what the organization’s vice-president described as a “wide scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a hacker tactic to overwhelm websites with massive amounts of traffic to block any legitimate traffic from getting…

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Just days after Royal Dutch Shell commenced drilling at the bottom of the Chukchi Sea, two major environmental groups released a new report confirming what many activists and scientists have already warned—to avert the looming climate crisis, U.S. Arctic offshore oil should be considered “untouchable.” “There is no reasonable scenario in which Arctic oil drilling and a safe climate future co-exist,” said report author Hannah McKinnon, senior campaigner with Oil Change International (OCI), which issued…

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A leaked internal review of the nation’s largest nuclear clean-up site found hundreds of “significant design vulnerabilities” and begs questions about the Energy Department’s transparency, a watchdog group says. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington houses radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons, and the decades-long clean-up effort has been costly and plagued by leaking underground nuclear waste storage tanks. Seattle-based Hanford Challenge, which advocates for safe clean-up of the site,…

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For the first time in 30 years, Seattle teachers are hitting the picket lines on Wednesday after the teachers union and the school board failed to negotiate a tentative agreement. The Tuesday decision to strike—made with what the union describes as “an unprecedented, thunderous unanimous vote,” closes schools on what would have been the first day of school for roughly 50,000 students. The problems the public school teachers say are driving the strike include those…

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In promising and long-awaited developments, Guatemala and El Salvador, where U.S.-backing and training helped the military forces commit crimes against humanity, this week took legal steps towards justice for victims. In El Salvador, more than 25 years after members of the U.S. backed-Salvadoran military forces killed six Jesuit priests, the government has said it would arrest 17 former soldiers accused of the committing the notorious massacre. According to reporting by Reuters on Wednesday: “We consider…

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, a competent driver in his own right, recalled his once ill-fated attempt to break the lap record at the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife as not his best idea. The Nürburgring is hosting this weekend’s Eifel Grand Prix, an event that popped up on F1’s schedule as a result of the cancellation of a collection of races due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the venue’s unexpected return has been greeted with enthusiasm by the…

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British handbag and accessories brand Radley London has launched a new collection with a sustainable focus. The Finsbury Park Collection is created with sustainable and non-leather materials, including recycled nylon made from plastic bottles and water-based polyurethane (PU). The collection features several iconic silhouettes from the brand including backpacks, tote bags, cross bodies and bum bags – all finished with signature details, including the new Radley London key fob and recycled geo-print lining. Prices range…

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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) said Tuesday night that he still does not consider himself a Democrat despite taking part in a Democratic National Committee (DNC) unity tour with the party’s new chairman, Tom Perez. “No, I’m an Independent,” Sanders said when asked by MSNBC’s Chris…

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