Friday’s Find Is a Familiar Narrative Told by Unfamiliar Artists
Nicole Mago Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Friday! That means it’s time for this week’s “Friday Find,” our new weekly Instagram series where we spotlight a song, record, or artist worth blasting all weekend long. This week: Melt by Shaed (Melt, PhotoFinish Records, 2018) Why we’re into it: Part ballad, part dance track, part anthem, this will hit…
Rod Rosenstein Bombshell: He Talked of Secretly Recording Trump, Ousting Him Via the 25th Amendment
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the audience during the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on Sept. 4, 2018. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein talked about lining up cabinet members to…
#WhyIDidntReport Is A Gut-Wrenching Response To Trump’s Attack on Ford’s Credibility
Ting Shen/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the first time since Christine Blasey Ford came forward with sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump on Friday openly suggested that Ford’s account may not be credible—a clear end to the uncharacteristically measured response Trump had initially taken after…
A Coal Ash Spill After Florence Could Contaminate a Major River
Tom Copeland/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over several days, Hurricane Florence dropped more than three feet of rain on North Carolina, flooding towns and neighborhoods and threatening the environmental safety of the waterways weaving through the state. On Friday, Duke Energy reported that a dam at its Wilmington power…
Lousy Patent Examiners Prefer Working in the Private Sector
Sure, you can patent flavored water with vitamins added to it. I don’t see why not.The Coca-Cola Company Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something odd. It turns out that some patent examiners approve more patents than others. These easy-to-please examiners are subsequently more likely to leave the Patent Office…
The Kavanaugh Affair Careened Off a Cliff Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today has been beyond bizarre. The allegations by Christine Blasey Ford of attempted rape against Brett Kavanaugh continued to play out, but then in the late afternoon the whole story careened completely over a cliff. I am, literally, almost afraid to write about it, so…