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May 11, 2026 By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch Wikimedia Commons Share this post? Facebook   X   Truth Social The American media mogul and icon Ted Turner has died at age 87. Although he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, his family soon moved to Georgia. He will long be remembered as the “Mouth of the South,” who instigated a revolution in 24-hour news, raising the bar with CNN and christening the era of cable news. Turner was a most complex figure who suffered from schizophrenia and took large doses of lithium to combat it. He led a life of manic depression, caused in part by the suicide of his own father at 53 and difficulties inherent in combating mental illness. That should serve as both a warning and a compliment, as his achievements are balanced with his defeats. Ted was a bombastic soul who developed a business no one thought possible. He was also a great sailor and won the America’s Cup. He owned the Atlanta Braves and took them on to win the World Series. I knew and worked wi...

  NEWS MUSIC NEWS Offers one executive: “You’ve always had bad boys and bad behavior. It was glorified, it wasn’t punished. It’s built into the roots of the business.” BY  ETHAN MILLMAN ,  SHIRLEY HALPERIN JULY 3, 2025 3:42PM Illustration by Layer Ø   GETTY IMAGES Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options The chances of Combs’ image itself being significantly rehabilitated seems slim, given that violent, abusive behavior was caught on camera and aired to millions of people around the world. And Combs still faces a litany of civil suits that will continue to follow him for the foreseeable future. Whatever career he has to return to comes with a significant asterisk. It’s early to know what, if any opportunity would even be possible for Combs in the future. Combs faced weeks of brutal testimony from witnesses including Ventura and Kid Cudi, and his acquittal came from what observers are  calling an overreach  ...

By Caroll Viana - June 16, 2025 The National Library of  Colombia  has inaugurated the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, featuring more than 450 manuscripts.  Credit:  Guadalajara Film Festival  / CC BY 2.0 The National Library of Colombia has inaugurated “Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation”, the most extensive and revealing exhibition ever dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, master of magical realism and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. For the first time in his home country, an exhibition has been mounted that brings together free to the public more than 450 items, including manuscripts, personal belongings, and documents. These materials were recovered from Garcia Marquez’s archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, as well as from national and international collections. ‘Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation’, the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez The exhibit opened its do...

By Josep Freixes - June 16, 2025 Child labor in  Colombia  remains a harsh reality for one of the country’s most vulnerable populations, especially in rural areas. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. Child labor in Colombia remains a crisis affecting the most vulnerable population. Although data from recent years shows this social scourge is not increasing, it remains stable and primarily impacts children in rural areas. According to official data, the child labor rate in the country stands at about 2.9%, rising to 6% in rural areas distant from state control. Child labor: Stealing the future of Colombia’s most vulnerable Marking the International  Day Against Child Labor , observed last Thursday, June 12, it was made known in Colombia that this scourge continues to affect segments of the vulnerable population, especially in rural areas. In the last three months of 2024, there were 311,000  children  under 15 working in Colombia, representing 2.9% of the country’s...