In early December, 2000, a young lawyer in Washington, D.C., named Gerard Magliocca stopped in front of the Supreme Court building. The question of who had won the Presidential election, on November 7th, remained unresolved. George W. Bush and Al Gore were separated by mere hundreds of votes in Florida, and the Bush campaign had sued to stop a recount. The Florida Supreme Court sided with Gore, so Bush appealed to the United States Supreme Court. While the nine Justices
Devoid of customers and with sunlight on the horizon, these photos show a different side to New York’s bustling bar scene.
Captured by photographer Daniel Root and published in a new book titled New York Bars At Dawn, the shots range from well-known establishments like Balthazar, McSorley’s, and the Stonewall Inn to nameless dives.
One shot shows the Minetta Tavern in Greenwich Village closed for business with the lights off and the shutters down. The restaurant and bar – famed
ORLANDO, Fla. — Universal Studios Florida has kicked off its annual Halloween Horror Nights event earlier this year with a “record-breaking” 48-day lineup of after-hour scares.
Fox News Digital got a preview of what visitors can expect when they stop by the Orlando theme park between 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. each night, from interactive horror sets to live entertainment, a unique limited-time menu and more.
This year, park guests can test their bravery at 10 haunted houses and five
Die Quarantäne und Restriktionen der letzten Jahre haben viel von dem Gefüge des Vertrauten gestört. Halloween war keine Ausnahme. Für viele kleine Kinder wird dieser 31. Oktober ihre erste Süßes-oder-Saure-Erfahrung sein: sich anziehen, von Tür zu Tür gehen und die Beute der Nacht sortieren, die riesigen Schokoriegel von den Zuckermais trennen. In seinem Cover für die Ausgabe vom 31. Oktober 2022 wirft der Künstler Sergio García Sánchez neue Augen auf eine vertraute Szene; ieses Grand Central Terminal wird spielerisch von
Victoria Hislop’s bestsellers, including The Sunrise, The Island and One August Night, have given readers incredible insight into Greece, and even led to the author being granted honorary Greek citizenship. Here, Victoria reveals her favourite haunts in Athens and the best places for a day trip out of the city.
Each year I spend a few months in Athens. I have an apartment in Kato Patissia, an area that makes my friends furrow their brows – think East London before
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Decades later, the scene of the crime is still intact: a deserted building of cracked windowpanes and dust-blown corridors, its courtyard strewn with withered leaves. Gunfire erupted here in October 1987 as Thomas Sankara, the 37-year-old president of Burkina Faso, was meeting with six aides.
“It sounded like a tornado on a tin roof,” recalled one of them, Alouna Troaré, retracing his steps through the ghostly site.
A charismatic army officer of revolutionary zeal, Sankara had
