Michelle Wolf’s Scathing Comedy Set at the WHCD Provoked Outrage, Glee, and Everything in Between
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The furor over comedian Michelle Wolf’s divisive comedy set at the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner shows no signs of abating. On Saturday night, journalists, celebrities, lawmakers and more gathered in Washington for the annual event, a black tie affair typically attended by the president.…
Support Is Mounting on the Right for Trump to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Chirag Wakaskar/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the second year in a row, on Saturday night President Donald Trump opted to skip the annual White House Correspondent’s Association dinner and instead hold a rally. The rally in Washington Township, Michigan came on the heels of Friday’s historic meeting between…
Trump Tried to Make a Russian MMA Reality Show. This Week the FBI Questioned its Star
MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko with the Russian president in 2013Alexei Nikolsky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. FBI agents questioned a Putin-friendly Russian MMA fighter this week while he was visiting the US for a major fight. Fedor Emelianenko arrived in Chicago on Tuesday and within hours, agents showed up at…
Raw Data: How Many People Have Jobs?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The unemployment rate is currently 4.1 percent, a number so low that it’s been matched only one other time since 1970—and that was during the tail end of the dotcom bubble. But does that mean everyone who wants a job has one? It’s hard to…
“Holy Shit. This is Dangerous:” Nixon, a Soviet Bomb Test, and a Top-Secret Climate Study
dzika_mrowka/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 23, 1971, the Soviet Union set off three Hiroshima-scale nuclear blasts deep underground in a remote region some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, ripping a massive crater in the…
I Can’t Stop Looking at These Street Photos of Tiny Toys
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I started following my old friend Jeremy LaCroix on Instagram a while back, and that’s when I realized he has a major toy fetish. Jeremy, whose nom de guerre is Jerry Business, has been posting a long series of stylized photos of tiny toy people…