Ali Wong Stuck With the Major Your Mom Told You to Drop and Here She Is Today
Ali Wong performing at Toronto’s Winter Garden theater.Ken Woroner/Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “It was not supposed to go down like this,” comedian Ali Wong says toward the end of her latest Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, which premiered this past weekend. Her husband works as vice president of…
A Promising New Ebola Vaccine Is About to Be Put to the Test
Health care volunteers are sprayed with bleach after removing corpses of Ebola victims in Koango, Guinea, in 2014. Idrissa Soumar/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Ebola was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, outbreaks have largely been stopped with the same methods—isolating the sick, and…
Scott Pruitt Is At It Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016, the EPA released a health advisory for a class of chemicals called PFOA and PFOS, setting a limit in drinking water of 70 parts per trillion. Over the past decade these chemicals have mostly been phased out, but years of use had…
Donald Trump’s Business Empire Is No Longer Growing
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s business empire has always relied on growth. But according to new personal financial disclosure documents filed by the president, it’s not growing much these days. Since the beginning of Trump’s term, a number of reports have provided anecdotal evidence that some…
Black Oaklanders Rally Around Racially Charged BBQ Incident That Became a Viral Video
A screenshot of the viral video of the now infamous April 29 incident in which a white woman called the police on two black men barbecuing on a lake in Oakland, California.Michelle Dione/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dozens of black Oaklanders showed up at a city council meeting last…
Republicans Prove They’re the World Champs of Working the Refs
Rex Shutterstock via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a political context, “working the refs” usually refers to the press. It’s an effort by one side or the other to complain so loudly about unfair coverage that reporters start bending over backward to provide positive coverage instead. But it…