Staff / TruthdigNov 13, 2011
As members of the OWS encampment in New York City head into what promises to be a brutal winter, activists with differing notions about where the movement should go next can all agree on one thing: survival. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 30, 2011
The surprising October snowstorm Saturday showed that winter’s chill is fast descending on protesters encamped in New York City’s Liberty Plaza. Will they stay or will they go? We’ll find out in the weeks to come, but for now, Wall Street’s occupiers and their supporters seem determined to keep the movement alive. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 12, 2011
Bad weather trapping you inside today? Well, stay put, lest you become like one of these hapless fools featured in The Onion News Network's "Snowpocalypse" faux exposé, good for a laugh on a wintry day. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Andy Borowitz / TruthdigJan 3, 2011
The Rev. Pat Robertson sparked controversy in Sunday's broadcast of his "700 Club" program when he claimed that God created the blizzard currently battering the Northeast "to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 16, 2010
It's been a wet and deadly winter for illegal immigrants crossing into Arizona from Mexico, with nine border crossers dying from hypothermia since November. That equals the number who died trying to make the crossing in the previous three winters combined. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 2, 2010
It's a tad goofy, this Groundhog Day tradition -- and PETA, campaigning for an animatronic Punxsutawney Phil, would even say it's inhumane -- but if weather forecasts by clairvoyant rodents are your thing, we, who just spent part of the morning researching the origins of Groundhog Day, certainly aren't going to judge. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 12, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of freezing Europeans are waiting for Russia and Ukraine to resolve a pricing dispute, while EU officials engage in scramblepants diplomacy to get the natural gas flowing again. Russia has accused Ukraine of siphoning off gas, which runs from Mother Russia through Ukraine and into Europe, where some areas are very, very cold. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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