The Daily Populous

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony.

The Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which criminalizes certain acts of animal cruelty.

The bipartisan bill, which was passed Tuesday afternoon, will now be sent to President Donald Trump's desk for his signature. »

INTERACTIVE Hiroshima Nagasaki Kyoto Kokura Emperor's palace, Tokyo Niigata Yokohama Hiroshima × First atomic bomb dropped, 6 August 1945.

× Kyoto × Japan's ancient traditional capital, Kyoto topped the list until Secretary of War Henry Stimson persuaded President Truman to remove it on the basis of its cultural importance.

But in early June 1945, Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered Kyoto to be removed from the target list. »

Boris Johnson's Conservative Party have received a surge in donations from Russians in recent months.

A new investigation reveals that Boris Johnson's Conservative party have received a surge in cash from Russian donors over the past year, as his government blocks publication of a report into Russian influence over recent elections.

An OpenDemocracy investigation found that the UK Conservative party received at least £498,850 from Russian business people and their associates between November 2018 and October 2019. »

Which leads us to consider whether John le Carre is, in a sense, a modern-day Shakespeare.

Le Carre -- the 84-year-old author's real name is, of course, David Cornwell - created much of the popular spy jargon that intelligence agents use and every English speaker knows.

"John le Carre: The Biography" shows us that the novelist's real life is just as fascinating as those le Carre depicts in his novels. »