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  • Nov 3
    Paul Pelosi released from hospital a week after brutal attack
    by Zoë Richards
    The House speaker's husband had undergone surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands.
    nbcnews.com · Nov 3
  • U.S. officials met with Brittney Griner in Russia, State Department says
    by Lauren Egan
    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Griner “is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.”.
    nbcnews.com · Nov 3
  • Transported through history: Greek mosaic floor graces new subway station
    by Deborah Kyvrikosaios
    In a domed passageway outside Athens, crowds study display panels and look down though glass beneath their feet at a mosaic floor from a 4th century BC house...
    reuters.com · Nov 3
  • Nov 2
    Brazil's Lula to attend COP27 climate change summit
    by Lisandra Paraguassu, Jake Spring
    Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will participate in this month's COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, the head of his political...
    reuters.com · Nov 2
  • Nov 1
    Alamo Drafthouse workers in S.F. just announced an unusual type of union. Here’s why
    by Chase DiFeliciantonio
    The San Francisco movie theater’s employees say the Alamo Drafthouse needs a union...
    sfchronicle.com · Nov 1
  • Oct 31
    How to Save America From Extremism by Changing the Way We Vote
    by David Montgomery
    Ranked-choice voting, multi-member House districts and other surprisingly simple tinkers that could fix our democracy.
    washingtonpost.com · Oct 31
  • Oct 28
    Dropbox CEO on the boomerang benefits of offering workers virtual-first jobs
    Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares with the CNBC Work Summit some of the biggest ways it has benefited from an early pandemic move to virtual-first work.
    cnbc.com · Oct 28
  • Oct 25
    People who identify as ‘gamers’ are more likely to be racist and sexist: study
    by Jack Hobbs
    “Call of Duty” players were more likely to exhibit the traits than those who played “Minecraft”, research revealed.
    nypost.com · Oct 25
  • Oct 21
    Daniel Smith, one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90
    by Harrison Smith
    He grew up hearing stories from his father, who was born into bondage during the Civil War. Decades later, he marched for civil rights in Washington and Selma.
    washingtonpost.com · Oct 21
  • Oct 20
    A return for Boris Johnson? It’s not out of the question.
    by Matthew Mpoke Bigg
    When the former prime minister left in September, he hinted at a potential comeback. He is now being mentioned as a successor to Liz Truss.
    nytimes.com · Oct 20
  • A global house-price slump is coming
    by The Economist
    It won’t blow up the financial system, but it will be scary.
    economist.com · Oct 20
  • Oct 19
    Chinese consul-general defends actions after being seen pulling protester's hair in Manchester
    by Inzamam Rashid
    In a letter sent to Greater Manchester Police, Zheng Xiyuan stated that the banners being used by protesters featured a "volume of deeply offensive imagery...
    news.sky.com · Oct 19
  • What the Banks Stock Rally Says About Wall Street
    by Andrew Ross Sorkin
    A strong batch of earnings have propelled bank stocks in recent days, but investors remain more cautious on the outlook of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
    nytimes.com · Oct 19
  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Will Never Stand Down
    by Afshon Ostovar
    The biggest obstacle to regime change is a security force designed to protect the regime to the point of civil war.
    foreignpolicy.com · Oct 19 · Published: Oct 18
  • Texas importer sues government in fish feud at end of world
    MIAMI (AP) — A small Texas seafood importer has sued the federal government for blocking a shipment of fish from protected waters near Antarctica — an area...
    apnews.com · Oct 19 · Published: Oct 18
  • Oct 18
    Climate Questions: Who is most vulnerable to climate change?
    Most of the world’s population has been affected in some way by climate change — 85% of the world, in fact. But the effects of climate change haven’t been...
    apnews.com · Oct 18
  • Oct 10
    Waiting for the School Bus in Uvalde
    by Greg Miller
    After a horrific shooting, a morning ritual takes on new meaning.
    newyorker.com · Oct 10
  • Oct 7
    Herschel Walker's campaign fires its political director in key Georgia Senate race | CNN Politics
    by Gabby Orr
    Herschel Walker's Senate campaign cut ties with its political director on Wednesday, CNN has learned, the move coming just days after The Daily Beast...
    cnn.com · Oct 7
  • Oct 6
    Biden Pardons Thousands Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law
    by Michael D. Shear
    The move represents a fundamental change in America’s response to a drug that has been at the center of a clash between culture and policing for more than a...
    nytimes.com · Oct 6
  • Oct 5
    N.Korea flies warplanes near S.Korea after missile launches
    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea on Thursday, prompting the South to scramble 30 military aircraft in...
    apnews.com · Oct 5
  • Oct 3
    Three years after clinical trial, ketamine provides hope for severely depressed
    by Thomas Curwen
    Ketamine or more specifically, its cousin — esketamine — has started to change the landscape of depression, especially where it borders on suicide.
    latimes.com · Oct 3
  • Oct 2
    Catalans compete to build the biggest human towers in Spain
    by Horaci Garcia
    Spain's biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to...
    reuters.com · Oct 2
  • Cutting tax for the highest earners was wrong - Gove - BBC News
    Michael Gove, the former cabinet minister, says it was wrong to cut the top rate from 45 to 40%.
    bbc.co.uk · Oct 2
  • Sep 30
    UK pension funds sell assets and tap employers in rush for cash
    by Adrienne Klasa
    Forced selling aimed at meeting collateral calls as crisis continues to roil markets.
    ft.com · Sep 30
  • Sep 29
    Judge rules Trump lawyers don’t have to clarify Mar-a-Lago document claims
    by Perry Stein
    Special master Raymond Dearie had told Donald Trump’s attorneys lawyers to address in court whether documents were planted or declassified.
    washingtonpost.com · Sep 29
  • Sep 28
    Wall Street bigwigs face $1.8 billion in fines over texts and WhatsApp messages
    by Ananya Bhattacharya
    Record-keeping probes reveal bankers texting and WhatsApping with colleagues and clients on their personal devices without maintaining logs.
    qz.com · Sep 28
  • Sep 27
    As the world moves on, Myanmar confronts a mounting, hidden toll
    by Rebecca Tan
    Since Myanmar's military seized control in a coup, the losses suffered by rebels, activists and ordinary citizens have gone beyond the front-line casualties.
    washingtonpost.com · Sep 27
  • How China Targets the Global Fish Supply
    by Steven Lee Myers
    With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.
    nytimes.com · Sep 27
  • Sep 26
    Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden
    MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after he revealed highly...
    apnews.com · Sep 26
  • Gaza farmer unearths Byzantine-era mosaic
    by Nidal Al-Mughrabi
    An ornate Byzantine floor mosaic showing a variety of colourful birds and other animals has been discovered by chance in Gaza after a Palestinian farmer...
    reuters.com · Sep 26 · Published: Sep 19
  • Sep 24
    They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.
    by Jessica Silver-Greenberg
    With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.
    nytimes.com · Sep 24
  • Sep 23
    Telecom bill will protect consumers, bring stability: IT minister Vaishnaw
    The law is meant to replace the colonial-era Telegraph Act of 1885 and a clutch of other related laws from before Independence, which have till now been at...
    hindustantimes.com · Sep 23
  • Sep 16
    Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil
    by Dara Horn
    Ken Burns’s docuseries 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.
    theatlantic.com · Sep 16
  • Explainer: Does China need more Russian gas via the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline?
    by Reuters
    Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with his counterparts from China and Mongolia on Thursday, where they discussed a major new infrastructure...
    reuters.com · Sep 16
  • Sep 15
    State and local taxes make inequality much worse
    by Melissa Hellmann
    “It’s all part of the higher cost of being poor.".
    motherjones.com · Sep 15
  • Sep 14
    Fred Franzia, the mastermind behind Two Buck Chuck wine, dies at 79
    by Julian Mark
    Fred Franzia dedicated his life to selling affordable wines, like Charles Shaw, known affectionately to Trader Joe’s shoppers as Two Buck Chuck.
    washingtonpost.com · Sep 14
  • Sep 13
    King Charles Inherits Untold Riches, and Passes Off His Own Empire
    by Jane Bradley
    As prince, Charles used tax breaks, offshore accounts and canny real estate investments to turn a sleepy estate into a billion-dollar business.
    nytimes.com · Sep 13
  • Sep 11
    It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory
    by Anne Applebaum
    The liberation of Russian-occupied territory might bring down Vladimir Putin.
    theatlantic.com · Sep 11
  • Sep 9
    Black Historians Know There’s No Such Thing as Objective History
    by Keisha N. Blain
    Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted...
    newrepublic.com · Sep 9
  • Sep 2
    Stephen Glasser, co-founder of the Legal Times newspaper, dies at 79
    by Harrison Smith
    He and his wife started the Washington-based weekly in 1978. The newspaper was among the first to focus on lawyers and the legal profession.
    washingtonpost.com · Sep 2
  • Sep 1
    The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion
    by Bijan Stephen
    Where does a game like Star Fox, Super Mario Bros., or Sharknado: The Video Game actually come from?
    newyorker.com · Sep 1
  • Aug 26
    Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech Over Covid Vaccine Technology
    by Rebecca Robbins
    Two lawsuits filed in Massachusetts and Germany claim the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine violated Moderna’s mRNA patents.
    nytimes.com · Aug 26
  • Aug 21
    How a Storied Phrase Became a Partisan Battleground
    by Jazmine Ulloa
    A touchstone of political and social discourse, the nearly 100-year-old phrase “the American dream,” is being repurposed — critics say distorted —...
    nytimes.com · Aug 21
  • Latisha Chong, Hair Stylist Who Helped Change Fashion, Dies at 32
    by Penelope Green
    In work seen, among other places, on the cover of Vogue, she was part of a vanguard of Black talent that altered an industry and expanded the canon of beauty.
    nytimes.com · Aug 21
  • Aug 16
    Brief but Spectacular
    The brightest thinkers, makers, artists and inventors give passionate takes on topics that inspire them.
    pbs.org · Aug 16 · Published: Dec 3, 2020
  • Aug 14
    Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense
    by Graeme Wood
    This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.
    theatlantic.com · Aug 14
  • Aug 10
    Why the Trump search warrant is nothing like Clinton's emails
    The president has decried the FBI’s search of his home. But legal experts say the agency is likely on firm ground. They note Trump could clear a lot of the...
    politico.com · Aug 10
  • Aug 5
    Carried Interest Is Back in the Headlines. Why It’s Not Going Away.
    by Alan Rappeport
    Changes demanded by Senator Kyrsten Sinema will preserve a tax loophole that Democrats have complained about for years.
    nytimes.com · Aug 5
  • Jul 29
    Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse
    by Ken Klippenstein
    The financial behemoth privately fears that regular people have too much leverage.
    theintercept.com · Jul 29
  • Jul 28
    MBS: despot in the desert
    by The Economist
    A volatile millennial wields absolute power in Saudi Arabia. What will he do next?
    economist.com · Jul 28