Delicious Purple Beans Connected One Chef to Her Family’s Culinary Past
Yardlong BeansBSPollard/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aileen Suzara reaches into her refrigerator and pulls out a tangle of yardlong beans, a popular ingredient in Filipino cuisine. They look like green beans, except, as the name implies, they’re much, much longer. And instead of green, they’re a deep purple-maroon. When Suzara, a…
“Crazy Rich Asians” Can’t Be Everything—But It’s Still a Win
Members of the Crazy Rich Asians cast at an event in New York.Evan Agostini Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Crazy Rich Asians debuted to crazy high expectations this week. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film is one of the first major studio-backed productions to feature an Asian-majority cast in…
HUD Complaint Says Facebook Discriminated Against Users With Advertising
Advocates have struggled for years to get HUD to hold Facebook accountable for its discriminatory advertising practices.Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it had filed a housing discrimination complaint against Facebook for violating the Fair Housing Act…
Trump Planning Revenge on Bruce Ohr Just Because He Can
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Washington Post: BREAKING NEWS: Trump says he plans to revoke security clearance for Justice Department official Bruce Ohr “very quickly” Bruce Ohr used to be an associate deputy attorney general and presumably still has a job at that level—although DOJ refuses to say…
The Amount of Toxic Wastewater Produced by Fracking is Unbelievable
The number of new fracking wells decreased as gas prices fell, but the amount of water used per well skyrocketed, with up to 1,440 percent more toxic wastewater generated in the first year of each new well’s production period by 2016. The research, published Wednesday afternoon in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, raises new concerns…
Trump Cancels Military Parade, Floats Buying 2/3rds of Fighter Jet
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump, who skillfully avoided military service and once compared his own promiscuous sex life in the eighties with Vietnam, was forced to cancel his military parade after estimates of its cost ballooned from $12 million to $92 million. On Thursday, the Secretary of Defense…