Saudis: Khashoggi Committed Suicide By Cop, Sort Of
This was four days ago. Today we finally got to hear the new story. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia has finally caved in and admitted that Jamal Khashoggi died in their consulate in Istanbul. This comes about two weeks after everyone else on the planet already knew it.…
New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in JulyValery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in…
A Pro-Obamacare Ballot Measure Has a Big Lead in Utah
Hagen/NTB Scanpix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s looking like voters are fans of Obamacare when they have a chance to directly vote on it—even in deeply red states like Utah. Utah is one of four states with ballot initiatives next month that ask voters about Medicaid expansion, the part…
DOJ Charges Russian With Conspiring to Disrupt 2018 Elections
Kremlin pool/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Justice Department on Friday filed a complaint against Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, a 44-year-old Russian national who, prosecutors allege, was the chief accountant managing the finances for Project Lakhta, Russia’s political influence operation aimed at disrupting elections in the United States and other…
Empress Of’s New Album Is a Tale of Love, Heartbreak, and Everything In Between
Empress Of/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We’ve got a special treat for you on this beautiful day called Friday. Not one Friday Find, not two, not even three, but 10 whole songs for you to jam to all weekend long (and maybe into next week?). For the first time, we’re…
Study Suggests Richer Countries Are More Gender Divergent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How different are men and women? Not physically, that is, but in terms of personality characteristics. What accounts for those differences? Nature? Nurture? Both? Spoiler alert: the answer is “both.” But that’s boring. We want details. If there are variations, what specific kinds of things…