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Congress is Finally Taking UFOs Seriously, 50 Years After Its Last Hearing on the Mysterious Subject
May 18, 2022 10:19 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MBThe House Intelligence Committee’s Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittee would like to make one thing very clear: They did not spend 90 minutes this morning conducting public hearings into the existence of UFOs.
The Buffalo Shooter Targeted a City Haunted by Segregation
May 17, 2022 12:13 - 5 minutes - 10.4 MBThe Tops supermarket on Buffalo's Jefferson Avenue is surrounded by streets lined with dilapidated houses. Around the corner is a small strip with two barbershops, a nail salon, and a heavily guarded M&T Bank. On most days, this part of town sees little foot traffic. But on Monday, it was filled with television news crews and local church groups offering free food to a community that had just experienced a massacre.
‘There’s No Such Thing As a Lone Wolf.’ The Online Movement That Spawned the Buffalo Shooting
May 17, 2022 11:36 - 6 minutes - 11.5 MBThe gunman accused of murdering 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket seemed to fit a familiar pattern. Isolated and bored during the pandemic, he had become increasingly radicalized by consuming white-supremacist content online. He had previously threatened a shooting at his high school and been sent for a mental health evaluation, according to authorities. After he carried out the violent solo massacre, in which he targeted Black shoppers, local police said they believed he had acted alo...
How the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ Has Fueled Racist Violence
May 17, 2022 11:25 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MBThe man who opened fire in a Buffalo grocery store on Saturday, killing 10 people, appears to have been motivated by a white nationalist ideology known on dark corners of the web as the “great replacement theory.
Buffalo Shooting Adds Pressure on Joe Biden to Push for Gun Control Measures
May 17, 2022 10:54 - 4 minutes - 8.39 MBJoe Biden campaigned on a pledge to “end” America’s gun violence epidemic. The racially-motivated shooting that killed 10 people and injured three at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday highlights how far he and the country are from fulfilling that goal. Speaking in front of the Capitol Building on Sunday, Biden described the Buffalo shooter as being “armed with weapons of war and a hate-filled soul.
You’ll Soon Be Able to Look Up Supreme Court Justices’ Wall Street Investments
May 16, 2022 12:13 - 6 minutes - 12.7 MBPresident Joe Biden signed a law Friday that will increase financial disclosure requirements for federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a move legal experts describe as a small but meaningful step towards reform at a time when public trust in the federal judiciary is at an all time low. The new law, the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, mandates the creation of an online database where the public can search federal judges' and Supreme Court justices' financial disclosures....
Overturning Roe Could Lead to Restrictions on Birth Control
May 16, 2022 12:01 - 8 minutes - 16.1 MBIn the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, a handful of state and local Republican politicians appeared to support proposals restricting access to birth control. In Arkansas and Louisiana, some Republican lawmakers announced their support for bills that would effectively result in immediate bans on certain emergency contraception, including copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) or Plan B, the so-called morning after pill, if the Supreme Court indeed over...
Column: Inflation May Already Have Peaked. Overreacting Brings Its Own Risks
May 16, 2022 11:42 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MBWhether you are an “average” American, a central banker, a CEO or a parking attendant, inflation is now the primary economic concern for most Americans. Polling bears that out: for the first time in decades, a notable portion of Americans say inflation is the number one issue facing the country. Each new economic release points to higher inflation, including the most recent government report that showed prices up 8.3% year-over-year.
Gunman Who Killed 1 and Injured 5 in California Church Shooting Detained
May 16, 2022 11:23 - 3 minutes - 6.17 MBLAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before being stopped and hog-tied by parishioners in what a sheriff’s official called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.
Ten Dead in Buffalo Supermarket Attack
May 15, 2022 16:14 - 6 minutes - 11.1 MBBUFFALO, N.Y. — A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday in what authorities described as “racially motivated violent extremism.” Police said he shot 11 Black and two white victims before surrendering to authorities in a rampage he broadcast live on the streaming platform Twitch.
The West Will Work With the Philippines’ Next President, Even If He Is a Dictator’s Son
May 15, 2022 15:52 - 5 minutes - 9.56 MBThe ascent of Philippine dictator’s son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to power marks an important turning point for the Southeast Asian country as it tries to find a balance in its relationship with the U.S. and China. Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy approach was, for the most part, marked by hostility toward the West in general and the U.S. in particular. Ever since a 2002 bombing in Davao City—his home turf—where U.S.
State Laws Are Treating Fentanyl Like the New Crack—And Making the Same Mistakes of the 80s and 90s
May 15, 2022 15:33 - 9 minutes - 18.3 MBSince the U.S. drug war was declared in 1971, various drugs have been identified as public enemy number one—from crack cocaine, in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the early 2000s. Today, the primary villain is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin. In 2021, more than 71,000 people in the U.S. died after overdoses involving synthetic opioids—mostly fentanyl, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics on May 11. ...
Review: Happening Is a Grim But Timely Warning from 1960s France
May 15, 2022 15:01 - 2 minutes - 4.67 MBIn Audrey Diwan’s tense and quietly radical film Happening, Anne, a bright young student in early 1960s France, discovers she’s pregnant. The law, as the doctor who breaks the news tells her, “is unsparing.” Anyone who helps her terminate the pregnancy will land in jail, as will she. Her closest friends abandon her when she confesses her plight; the father of the unborn child absolves himself of responsibility.
Long-Lasting Birth Control Is Already Hard to Get. Advocates Worry It May Only Get Worse
May 14, 2022 15:34 - 13 minutes - 25.1 MBWhen Rachel, a 35-year-old from Colorado, learned four years ago that she was pregnant despite taking birth control pills, she wanted to make sure it didn’t happen again. The stakes were high: in addition to not wanting kids, she has a uterine deformity that makes pregnancy risky. She terminated the pregnancy, then began looking for long-lasting birth control.
Column: The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Materials
May 14, 2022 15:20 - 14 minutes - 25.8 MBModern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to good education and health care without any microchips or personal computers: we had one until the 1970s, and we managed, until the 1990s, to expand economies, build requisite infrastructures and connect the world by jetliners without any smartphones and social media.
Review: The New Top Gun Is So Much Better Than the First One
May 14, 2022 15:15 - 9 minutes - 17.1 MBIt no longer matters whether you like or dislike Tom Cruise: no matter how good he looks in his ultra-moisturized, deal-with-the-devil skin, his ship has sailed not just into the waters of middle age, but beyond them. Always a performer desperate to be liked, Cruise has entered a new era, one of potential irrelevance, which could be the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
Biden’s Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith Have Never Been More at Odds
May 14, 2022 15:11 - 5 minutes - 10.8 MBIt’s a side of Joe Biden the public rarely sees. Friends who've endured lengthy car rides with him or joined in his impromptu huddles after mass know that chewing over the ins and outs of religious thought is a time-honored pastime for the country’s second Catholic President. That interest spilled into public view the morning after news broke about a draft Supreme Court ruling that would eliminate nationwide abortion protections under Roe v. Wade.
Why the Bipartisan Push to Prevent Another Jan. 6 Is Running Out of Time
May 13, 2022 13:04 - 9 minutes - 17 MBFor five months, a bipartisan group in Congress has been working to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, the 1887 law that Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit on January 6, 2021, to overturn the presidential election. The working group’s members have repeatedly emphasized that there is ample support for updating the little-known statute. "This will pass," Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, told The New York Times in February. "There's broad consensus," Sen.
Astronomers Capture First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
May 13, 2022 12:09 - 5 minutes - 9.51 MBYou’d think it would be hard to overlook an object with a mass four million times greater than the sun. But when that object is a supermassive black hole like Sagittarius A*, the giant object astronomers have long believed sits at the center of our galaxy, it is, by definition, impossible to see. Black holes, after all, are collapsed objects with a gravitational pull so great that not even light can escape. All the same, this morning, at a National Press Club even in Washington, D.C....
COVID-19’s Final Frontier: What to Know About North Korea’s ‘Explosive’ Outbreak
May 13, 2022 11:35 - 4 minutes - 8.82 MBNorth Korea on Friday went public with its first “explosive” COVID-19 outbreak, reporting six fatalities and raising concerns about the hermit state’s defenses against the coronavirus after two years of claiming to have warded off infections. The state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) says that one of the six people who died had tested positive for the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
An Alabama Correctional Officer Helped a Murder Suspect Escape. The Jailbreak Highlights a Bigger Problem
May 13, 2022 11:16 - 6 minutes - 12.4 MBThe seemingly made-for-TV story of the Alabama murder suspect who escaped from jail with the help of a female correctional officer after the two possibly became "romantically involved" ended in tragedy this week. Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Jail in Florence, Ala., died by suicide after she and fugitive Casey White were spotted by police in Evansville, Ind., authorities said.
Why So Many Tech Stocks Are Falling
May 13, 2022 10:20 - 8 minutes - 15.1 MBTechnology companies thrived when the pandemic began more than two years ago. But now, as much of the population returns to work and spends less time at home, the tech sector is suffering deep losses as investors fear that companies boosted by the pandemic are running out of steam. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite reported the biggest dip, closing on Monday down more than 4% after ending April with its worst monthly performance since the 2008 financial crisis. It rose 0.
Voting Won’t Save Abortion Rights
May 12, 2022 12:57 - 5 minutes - 10.8 MBIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion declaring their decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to recriminalize abortion, Americans have turned to their pro-choice elected officials looking for a plan.
Why It’s So Hard to Find Baby Formula in the U.S. Right Now
May 12, 2022 11:59 - 5 minutes - 10.3 MBParents across the U.S. have been scouring social media or crossing states to get hold of baby formula amid a national shortage driven by ongoing pressure on supply chains. The crisis has worsened in the past few weeks as 40% of popular baby formula brands were sold out at U.S. retailers in the week beginning April 24, according to an analysis by Datasembly of more than 11,000 stores. That’s up from 31% less than two weeks earlier, and 11% in November 2021.
Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Personal Info From Search
May 12, 2022 11:48 - 3 minutes - 6.08 MBGoogle recently started allowing users to remove their personal information from search results, including their phone number, email, and home address. On Wednesday, the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference that it's launching a tool to further streamline the process.
Wheat Crops Almost Everywhere Are Coming Under Threat From Extreme Weather
May 12, 2022 11:33 - 5 minutes - 10.8 MBAs Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather. Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another.
How a Digital Abortion Footprint Could Lead to Criminal Charges—And What Congress Can Do About It
May 11, 2022 12:09 - 9 minutes - 17.6 MBGetting away with breaking the law in the digital age is tricky. Almost everything one does—whether it’s making a Google search for “how to clean up a crime scene,” purchasing suspicious items on Amazon, or merely having been in the proximity of a crime scene with a cell phone that had its location services turned on—can be discovered via court-issued warrant and lead to charges and convictions. If Roe v.
Here’s Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Keep Crashing
May 11, 2022 11:41 - 6 minutes - 12.8 MBBitcoin took a brutal fall on Monday, briefly dipping below $30,000 for the first time since July 2021. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now worth less than half of what it was in the fall. Other cryptocurrencies, like Ether and BNB, have seen similar falls, while trading volumes have also tapered off on major exchanges. Some experts are now warning of a “crypto winter,” in which the sector’s astonishing growth is replaced by an extended period of contraction.
Musk Says He Would Reverse Twitter’s Ban of Donald Trump
May 11, 2022 11:27 - 1 minute - 3.3 MBLONDON — Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. Musk, speaking virtually at a Future of the Car summit hosted by the Financial Times, said Twitter’s Trump ban was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.
Review: Two Former Mr. Darcys Delight in Netflix Espionage Caper Operation Mincemeat
May 11, 2022 10:48 - 3 minutes - 7.04 MBEven the most imaginative spy novelist couldn’t have made it up: In 1943 a motley group of British operatives created an elaborate false identity for a corpse, which they then sent awash on a beach in Spain, with the aim of throwing the Nazis off the trail of the Allies’ impending invasion of Sicily.
Column: The Critical Role of Public Defenders in a Post-Roe v. Wade World
May 10, 2022 12:20 - 8 minutes - 16 MBThe debate over fetal rights is an old one, and at least 38 states already have some form of fetal-harm laws in place that make it a crime to hurt a fetus. Under Roe v. Wade, these laws are required to exempt abortion from punishment. But if Roe is overturned – and a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggests that’s a real possibility – the landscape of protection will change dramatically.
Column: Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War
May 10, 2022 12:03 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MBWorries about a new civil war in the United States are misplaced because the Civil War never fully ended. That is essential knowledge for understanding current political divisions, especially the recriminations surrounding the leaked draft Supreme Court Roe decision, negating constitutional protections of a woman’s abortion rights.
High Gas Prices Are Pushing Electric Car Sales to a Tipping Point
May 10, 2022 11:41 - 5 minutes - 9.7 MBWhen Eric Dirksen received his first electric car in December—a new Tesla Model Y—he didn’t know gas prices would spike a few months after. But with fuel costing about $4.20 per gallon on average this week, he’s happy with the decision. “Very fortunate at the timing,” he says. Dirksen spent $62 on charging in the last month, roughly the same amount as 15 gallons of gas.
Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ Becomes the Most Expensive Work By a U.S. Artist Sold at Auction
May 10, 2022 11:30 - 1 minute - 3.26 MBNEW YORK — Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. The 1964 silkscreen image shows Monroe in vibrant close-up — hair yellow, eyeshadow blue and lips red — on a rich blue background.
Border Patrol Agents Will No Longer Be Able to Investigate Themselves
May 09, 2022 13:14 - 3 minutes - 6.77 MBUnited States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a memo Friday ending a controversial Border Patrol oversight team charged with investigating incidents involving border enforcement personnel. Instead, investigations will be turned over to the Office of Professional Responsibility, a different department that, while still within CBP, is specifically charged with agency oversight. Similar offices exist at other government agencies, including the Department of Justice.
A Mysterious Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children Is Baffling Doctors
May 09, 2022 12:18 - 6 minutes - 12.3 MBSince last autumn, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama have been wrestling with a mystery. From October 2021 through February of this year, nine children—the youngest 20 months old and the oldest 5 years and 9 months—were rushed to the hospital with concerning symptoms, all of which turned out to be due to unexplained cases of acute hepatitis, also known as liver inflammation. As the U.S.
Column: Ukraine Shows the Strength of a Free People
May 09, 2022 11:30 - 9 minutes - 16.8 MBThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is a confrontation of a dictatorship against a free people. The free people are winning in no small part because they are free. Ukraine and Russia both emerged from the ruin of the Soviet Union with the burden of generations of oppression. Both countries struggled to rebuild themselves as free countries with market economies and democratic systems.
After Supreme Court Leak, Republican-led States Ready Legislation to Ban or Criminalize Abortion
May 08, 2022 16:12 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MBLess than 48 hours after a leaked draft decision showing the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade, Republicans in the Louisiana House of Representatives advanced a bill classifying abortion as homicide from “the moment of fertilization” and allowing prosecutors to charge both patients and providers with murder. “We cannot wait on the Supreme Court,” State Rep. Danny McCormick, the bill’s sponsor, said during a committee hearing on Wednesday.
India’s Unbearably Hot Schools Show We Must Climate-Proof Education
May 08, 2022 15:26 - 6 minutes - 12.3 MBSchool’s about to be out for the summer in India—weeks earlier than planned. The sweltering spring heatwave that has built across the subcontinent since March has in recent days forced several north Indian states to change schooling hours, revive lockdown-era online classes, and bring forward annual summer vacations.
Twitter Is Brilliant. The Damage It’s Done Is Undeniable
May 08, 2022 15:05 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MBThe debate over Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is fierce because journalists and politicians depend on the platform to share their ideas and build their brands. Twitter is less than one-tenth the size of Facebook, and has been only intermittently profitable, which is a terrible result for one of Silicon Valley’s most brilliant product ideas.
Why You’re Seeing So Many Johnny Depp Defenders on TikTok
May 08, 2022 14:38 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MBIf you’ve opened TikTok in the last two weeks, you’ll have struggled to escape commentary or clips from the defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard in a Virginia courtroom. The trial, over an opinion piece Heard wrote for the Washington Post in 2018 in which Depp claims she defamed him, has become unavoidable on TikTok.
‘I Can’t Say No to Mothers in Need.’ The Foreign Women Joining Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia
May 07, 2022 15:13 - 8 minutes - 15.4 MBSandra Anderson Eira doesn’t go short of appreciation. Fighting on the front line in Ukraine, the 35-year-old says locals have given her chocolate, roses, and even pairs of socks. “There have also been gifts of hugs and tears, happy tears,” she says. Formerly a member of the Sami Parliament in her native Norway, with a 10-year career at the helm of a commercial fishing ship, she has been battling Russian troops since early March.
In Wisconsin, an 1849 Abortion Ban Could Make for a Chaotic Post-Roe Landscape
May 07, 2022 14:57 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MBMore than two dozen states are poised to ban abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Then there’s Wisconsin, where a politically divided government, a hotly contested election season, and a 173-year-old law that criminalizes nearly all abortions are making for a potentially chaotic post-Roe landscape. The prospect of a restoration of the 1849 statute has upended the midwestern swing state.
Column: Democracy Can Still End Big Tech's Dominance Over Our Lives
May 07, 2022 14:44 - 11 minutes - 21.8 MBJust two decades ago barely 25% of the world’s information was digital. Today, nothing escapes this web. It is our shared fate and privilege to live at the dawn of information civilization. What kind of future will this be? What legacy will we leave to our children, our people, and the generations beyond? In an information civilization our lives are rendered as and mediated by information.
Dora Maar’s Anti-Fascist Worldview Influenced Picasso’s Art
May 07, 2022 14:28 - 13 minutes - 24.4 MBThe story of the first encounter between Pablo Picasso and his muse, Dora Maar, has been much mythologised. It is said that Maar, aged 29 at the time, was seated alone at the popular cultural hotspot, Les Deux Magots, playing a game in which she stabbed a small knife between her fingers into the wood of the table. From time to time, she narrowly missed and her hand was covered with blood.
Taiwan Is Abandoning Its Zero-COVID Strategy in Favor of a ‘New Model’ of Coronavirus Containment
May 07, 2022 14:23 - 7 minutes - 13.9 MBTaipei is easing COVID-19 curbs even as its daily cases are rising, in a strategy radically different from Beijing's zero-tolerance policy that has shut down many Chinese cities and sent the economy into a tailspin. On May 5, Taiwan recorded more than 30,000 new COVID-19 infections—crossing that daily threshold for the first time since the pandemic began.
Routine Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell as Misinformation About the COVID-19 Shot Rose
May 06, 2022 12:12 - 8 minutes - 16 MBAnti-vaccine sentiments have been simmering in the U.S. since at least 1998, when the Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, published—and later retracted—a fraudulent paper falsely linking childhood vaccines to autism. They’ve grown even stronger in the past two years, thanks to disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Though the development of the COVID-19 vaccines happened at an unprecedented pace, they've been rigorously tested, and have proven both safe and effective.
‘It’s an Apathy Remover.’ The End of Roe Could Galvanize Democrats’ Burned-Out Base
May 06, 2022 11:57 - 4 minutes - 8.12 MBThe mood among Democratic organizers has been bleak for a while. Four years of Donald Trump has left the base exhausted, two-plus years of COVID-19 has left activists burned-out, and stalled progress during the Biden Administration on issues like voting rights, climate change, and child care has left Democrats demoralized. Many assume the party is headed for a wood-chipper in November, offering voters a big pile of zilch.
What to Know About BA.2.12.1, the New Variant Spreading in the U.S.
May 06, 2022 11:46 - 2 minutes - 5.05 MBIt’s only been about six months since the Omicron variant emerged and changed the landscape of the pandemic, sending case-counts soaring and causing breakthrough infections even among those who were fully vaccinated and boosted. The virus continues to keep scientists guessing, mutating into subvariants almost as fast as researchers can assign them names. First there was BA.2, which became dominant in the U.S. earlier this spring. Now, another Omicron descendent known as BA.2.12. ...
South Korea’s Intelligence Agency Has Joined NATO’s Cyber Defense Unit. China Isn’t Happy
May 06, 2022 11:14 - 3 minutes - 6.6 MBOn Thursday, South Korea’s spy agency became the first in Asia to join NATO’s Cyber Defense Group in a move that risks inflaming tensions with regional superpower China.