A night in the life, and after-life, of a professional scare actor
October unleashes a wave of spooky seasonal work for local actors, but all that creeping and crawling isn't easy.
October unleashes a wave of spooky seasonal work for local actors, but all that creeping and crawling isn't easy.
It was about to be a long night in Huntington, West Virginia. Mayor Patrick Farrell stood before 10 members of city council in a white dress shirt and dark blazer studded with an American flag pin. Behind him sat his constituents and...
Who is covering this
Lawyers for the Justice Department managed to get a three-judge panel to convene a rare emergency hearing on Sunday.
The stunningly detailed gold cape is unique in Europe and may have belonged to a high-ranking woman.
“Records are important,” said the mother of a woman killed by her Navy colleague. We found nearly twice as many domestic-abuse killings by service members as the DoD listed.
In the birthplace of the blues and the civil rights movement, Mississippi Delta mothers and babies face some of the highest death rates in the U.S.
Trump's break from long-standing tradition in U.S.-Russia relations was real, but it should not have been entirely surprising.
Who is covering this
In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care.
Who is covering this
The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on.
Who is covering this
Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.”
An election strategy.
Renzo Cozza’s short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma.
Montréal and Boston-based biotech startup aims to draw more data out of small samples. The post DropGenie raises $5 million USD backed by BDC to speed up biological discovery
This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 23 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: Good morning, or maybe good afternoon, depending...
The number one thing on the No Kings coalition’s wish list should be obvious to anyone familiar with its nationwide rallies: Vote out as many Trump-appeasing congressional Republicans as possible in November and replace them with...
There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to be speculative. No one is from outer space; society has not yet been carved up into a hierarchy of groups with...
If it wasn’t clear before Saturday, it should be obvious now that there’s a part of Donald Trump that wants the Republicans to lose the midterm elections next week. Why else would he say what he said at that Georgia rally on Saturday?...
Two new outposts of the London institution make a vibrant case for handmade craft in an age of A.I. slop.
“Ausländer,” “Frivolity: A Defense,” “May We Feed the King,” and “Sophie, Standing There.”
A new book by Hamish McKenzie, the platform’s co-founder, argues that writers today are more empowered than ever. But online newsletters form their own kind of attention economy.
The best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick sees links between eighteen-fifties California and the current A.I. boom. What can the history of the action-packed gold rush actually tell us?
Broadway once thrived on the collision of musical traditions. Now, amid jukebox shows and Hollywood adaptations, can it recover its creative daring?
It's a showdown of (most) of the top best picture contenders in adapted screenplay — but could result in different winners.
U.S. President claims election was ‘rigged,’ without providing evidence, while Bolsonaro is attempting to mount an organized opposition to the results
Sudbury startup’s $6-million USD Series A and Yokohama partnership mark new stage in its industrial AI push. The post Symx.ai spent years unlocking mining data. Now it’s building “an operating system” for heavy industry
"To me, that is a crazy thought and super unhygienic. Why would you not change your underwear every day when getting dressed?"
Who is covering this
They make four main arguments and all of them are flawed, write Bridgewater’s Nir Bar Dea and Greg Jensen
Changes are needed to prevent the full, flat-rate state pension becoming liable for income tax after it rises in April.
The term for deny, attack, reverse victim and offender gives survivors language for abuse
A UK team is reviving Knightmare as a point 'n' click adventure game, with the original host set to reprise his role.
Who is covering this
Ottawa is still deliberating how many of the American planes it will buy
Who is covering this
Also on the daily podcast: the start of our American-midterms series and why just about everywhere sells merch now
Even if they can't repeal the 19th Amendment, opponents of women's suffrage are gaining power in the GOP
President Trump ralled in Michigan on Sunday for Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate. He spent his time not only complimenting Rogers but complimenting guest speaker Nicki Minaj's body, saying the rapper had 'one hell of a...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the Chinese border city of Dandong, crossing the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge. The symbolic move highlights efforts by Beijing and Pyongyang to expand trade ties. Kim was accompanied by...
Archaeologists have uncovered the 1,500-year-old burial of an elite toddler from the Moche culture in Peru.
The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation.
M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.
In case you missed it, an internal trailer for the new Mass Effect game which BioWare were working on prior to EA shutting them down hit the net late last week. It offered a peek at what the studio were cooking with this new entry,...
Vehicles linked to the convoy of Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi collided on the Purvanchal Expressway.