Up Close and Personal with San Francisco’s Original Punks
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long before it became a playground for budding millionaires, San Francisco was a city filled with freaks. Its punk scene, like a lot of early punk scenes, drew art students, outcasts, weirdos, and plenty of people just looking for a new kind of kick. Ruby…
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Chats About the Challenges of Growing Up Gay and Finally Finding Love
Candidate Photos/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier today, we told you about presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s appearance in front of a sold-out crowd at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thursday night. He took the chance to share his plans to bring the rigor of running a small…
How Often Do You Need to Read About Aly & AJ Before You Just Listen to Their New Music?
Aly & AJ Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Church” by Aly & AJ (Aly & AJ Music) Why we’re into it: While Aly & AJ may have already made their Friday Find debut, their newest track requires another appearance for its exploration of the girls’ religious path in a song…
Barr Says He’ll Release Redacted Mueller Report by Mid-April
U.S. Attorney General William Barr departs his home March 26, 2019.Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General William Barr said in a letter Friday that he expects to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “by mid-April, if not sooner.” Last Sunday, after Mueller…
The Supreme Court Just Halted This Texas Death Row Inmate’s Execution
Pat Sullivan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy was granted a rare stay of execution by the US Supreme Court in a 7-2 vote that took place two hours after he was scheduled to be executed. Murphy’s religious discrimination claim argued that because he was a converted Buddhist, he…
The Fungi Decimating Amphibians Is Worse Than We Thought
This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 400 million years, amphibians have led a highly successful double life on Earth, foraging on terra and reproducing in water. They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and any number of other worldwide catastrophes, but they’ve never seen a…