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If you had an emotional response to an essay in The Atlantic this week, you aren't alone.
The piece, written by the late Alex Tizon, tells the story of Eudocia Tomas Pulido, a woman who worked for his family and raised him. But Tizon reveals this stunning truth: For 56 years, Pulido, known to him as "Lola" — grandmother in Tagalog — was never paid for her work. She was his family's slave.
Source: Global Post
President Donald Trump does not like going out for dinner.
“As far as we know, he's only dined out twice as president," says Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema, “and both times at his own restaurant in the Trump hotel, where he inevitably orders steak, which he inevitably gets well-done.”
Trump might be forced out of his comfort zone soon, though.
On Friday, he embarked on his first foreign trip, with stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, Vatican City, [...]
Source: Global Post
Forget stopping to smell the roses. Biologist David George Haskell would tell you the best way to tune in to nature is by stopping to listen to trees.
“Sound is the great revealing sense,” says Haskell, who spent years observing a dozen specific trees for his new book “The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors.”
“Sound travels over walls and through doors, and so the hidden stories of a place cannot be seen,” [...]
Source: Global Post
For the first stop of his first foreign trip as president, Donald Trump will land in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, where he will seal a weapons deal, meet with some business executives, and give a speech to a room full of Muslim leaders about Islam.
The White House said Trump would use the planned speech to offer his “hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam.”
When Roula Allouch, chair of the national board of the [...]
Source: Global Post
Scandal, secret tapes, obstruction of justice, talk of impeachment — not Washington, this time we're talking about Brazil.
The South American country's massive corruption scandal already ensnared many powerful executives, lawmakers and government officials. Now, it's apparently reaching the president.
President Michel Temer was allegedly caught in recordings authorizing payments to a jailed politician to stay quiet in the corruption probe known as “Car Wash” ( “Lava Jato”), according to O Globo newspaper. He also [...]
Source: Global Post
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