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The Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968 — one of the most pivotal events in modern Mexican history, one that the renowned National Security Archive organization has called “Mexico’s Tiananmen Square” — all began with a fracas between two rival public vocational high schools that erupted into an out-and-out brawl in a Mexico City marketplace built for the upcoming 1968 Olympics. The next day, riot police arrived at the two schools, wielding clubs and beating anyone within reach, attacking students and faculty with equal brutality. The following day, students took to the streets in protest of the previous day’s beating, which…

Jerry Golod, an executive producer behind Tales from the Darkside and Return to Green Acres, has died. He was 87. The producer’s daughter Dori Golod Howell announced that he died on Wednesday at his Rancho Mirage home, following a brief battle with cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Born Dec. 26, 1938 in the Bronx, Golod began his career in advertising, during which he led an ad agency’s TV production company before becoming vice president of children’s programs at CBS in 1975. Following George A. Romero’s 1982 Stephen King-penned horror anthology Creepshow, Golod helped EPs Romero and Richard P. Rubinstein…

The prison commissioner in the southern US state of Tennessee has resigned over the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike, Governor Bill Lee said Saturday. Lee said in a statement that commissioner Frank Strada would leave his post this month. Pike’s lawyers say she is in critical condition, unconscious and on a ventilator in a hospital, after her execution by lethal injection went wrong on Wednesday. Read moreConvicted killer Christa Pike in ‘critical condition’ after two lethal injections fail to kill her Pike, 50, survived two injections of the normally lethal substance pentobarbital as punishment for the murder of…

Reigning world champion Wu Yize won six consecutive frames to beat Judd Trump 6-1 in the Shenzhen Open semi-finals.Wu, who will leapfrog Trump in the rankings and move second in the world after the final, bounced back in dramatic fashion after losing the opening frame to set up an all-Chinese final against Yuan Sijun at the Bao’an Sports Centre on Sunday.Yuan, 26, endured a much more difficult route to his maiden ranking final, battling through 6-5 against Englishman Jimmy Robertson.World number two Trump, who won the Shanghai Masters in August, had gone into the Shenzhen semi-final in fine form after…

Attacks on and by students, a political comeback and the memory of past violence marked the week of Sept. 28 in Mexico. Two 17-year-old students from a prep school affiliated with the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM) were shot dead in Cuernavaca on Saturday night, weeks after the Sept. 12 killing of Spanish exchange student Claudia Tacoronte. That brings to six the number of UAEM students murdered in Morelos this year. After students and members of the Somos party protested Sunday outside the state attorney general’s office, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a special security plan for Morelos…

The Justice Department argued that Donald Trump can legally ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House because he determined that they didn’t meet the “minimum requirements of professionalism.” Last month, a federal judge granted the three outlets a temporary restraining order that forced the White House to reinstate dozens of their reporters’ hard passes. The outlets are now asking the judge to extend that 14-day order for a longer term via a preliminary injunction, claiming that Trump’s ban is a violation of their First and Fifth amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, has…

Southern California faced scorching heatwaves this summer that made locals wonder what happened to their famed Mediterranean climate.Now, the fall is bringing heatwaves too.Friday kicked off a new round of long-duration heatwave advisories from the National Weather Service (NWS), which expects unseasonably high temperatures to linger for at least a week. Temperatures are expected to hover near 100F in downtown Los Angeles, and spike well into the triple digits farther inland, raising the risk of both heat-related illness and wildfires.“We’re expecting temperatures will run some 15-20 degrees above normal – that’s pretty significant,” said Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the…

Weekly Newsletter Arthur Jaffa at the New Museum, Teresa Margolles at MoMA PS1, the story of an unsung Black architect, and our art tarotscope for the fall. I wake up with the sparrows at 6am, shower and get dressed at maximum speed, check a few emails, gulp a quick espresso, and by 7:15am, I’m ready to drive my son René to kindergarten.As I turn on the car, ready to conquer the day, I hear him sigh from his booster seat in the back and ask, “What’s the point of all this?”The previous morning we’d discussed death. I did a poor…

Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, a key participant in the fuel-smuggling scheme that has tarnished the Navy, was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco, on Thursday night. Solano Ruiz, aka “Capitán Sol,” is a retired Marine captain and purportedly one of the main operators of the fuel smuggling network allegedly orchestrated by the Farías Laguna brothers, both of whom were high-ranking Navy officers. El traslado de Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, “El Capitán Sol” o “Mike”, señalado como uno de los principales operadores de la red de huachicol fiscal que involucró a mandos de la Marina y funcionarios de aduanas, quien fue detenido en…

On the first of his two-night run at Gillette Stadium on Friday, Zach Bryan hit the stage wearing a shirt that read “Free Palestine.” The singer-songwriter appeared to be sending a message to stadium and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after he banned Macklemore from the venue following the Seattle rapper’s comments while touring with Ed Sheeran. Reps for Bryan and Gillette stadium did not immediately return a request for comment. In early September, during a show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, Macklemore yelled “Free Palestine”; expressed solidarity with people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank; showed images…