The French Queen of Pop Still Dazzles at 74.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Françoise HardyPersonne d’autreParolphone France/Arts Music Since vaulting to international stardom as a teenager in the pre-Beatles ’60s, Françoise Hardy has been France’s leading female pop singer. Amazingly, she continues to cast a spell today. On her 24th album, and her first longplayer in six years,…
The Coal Industry is Dying, and It’s Leaving Communities Like This One to Pick Up the Pieces
This story was originally co-published with ProPublica and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. John Arnett chose Adams County, Ohio, as his home long before he was old enough to vote, drink beer or drive a motorcycle along the Ohio River. After his parents split up, Arnett opted at age 10 to spend most of his time with his…
The FBI Says Your Router Is Helping Russian Hackers
Alexei Druzhinin/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made an announcement on Friday that went a bit under the radar, but is huge: Russian hackers devised a sophisticated malware system that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers in the United States…
Trump’s Lawyer Is Spending Memorial Day Weekend Raving About How the Mueller Investigation Is Rigged
Peter Foley/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former New York City Mayor and current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani isn’t taking any time off from his quest to defend his client before any and every cable news audience that will listen. On CNN on Sunday, he told correspondent Dana Bash that…
Trump Tweets About “Young and Beautiful Lives” Destroyed by Russia Investigation
AP Photo/Mike Stewart Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While outrage spreads about reports of immigrant children who the government placed with traffickers and then lost by the hundreds, Donald Trump is spending his Sunday morning decrying the treatment of another group of young people: those whose lives have been “devastated…
Enjoy Those Avocados, Pistachios and Oranges While You Can, Because They Are Going Away
Grist/Armin Staudt/EyeEm/Fridholm, Jakob/Douglas Sacha/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In…