We all hope we’ll live to be 100—at least, I do—if not older. But most of us would love to grow old and still be able to do what we love and contribute to society. National Park Service (NPS) Ranger Betty Reid Soskin did both. She’s 100 years old now and although she retired Thursday, she’s spent the past decade-and-a-half doing what she loves.
At first, he wanted a cut of the advance for a book planned by photographer Shealah Craighead featuring her own work.
Greta Thunberg is already a published author, having co-written the family memoir Scenes from the Heart and released the collection of speeches No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, along with being the subject of the biography Our House is on Fire. Now, she’s curating the handbook on climate change. The 19-year-old has compiled essays and advice from a host of luminaries for the forthcoming The Climate Book, to be published in the U.K.
Every student should now use “they” and “them” pronouns to avoid obvious gender identifiers like “he” and “she,” indicates a letter reportedly circulating in the state.
Four of Condé Nast’s publications—Ars Technica, Pitchfork, Wired, and The New Yorker—have already unionized. But this week brought big news, in the form of a companywide union at the publishing giant’s other brands. That’s more than 500 workers, which is very small compared to the Amazon warehouse that unionized this week, but very big compared to, say, a Starbucks store.
Russia’s war and high energy prices have forced the administration to walk a tightrope.
Critics of standardized tests have had plenty of reasons to celebrate lately. More than three-quarters of colleges are not requiring the SAT or the ACT for admission this fall, an all-time high, and more than 400 Ph.D. programs have dropped the GRE, up from a mere handful a few years ago. MIT’s announcement on Monday that it is reinstating a testing requirement for fall 2023 admissions was a major departure from these recent trends.
On Thursday, in a dim conference room in the bowels of a Washington, D.C., hotel, about 150 conservatives gathered for a day of group therapy. They had all been traumatized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which had left them questioning their assumptions about the world. But Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression wasn’t what confounded them most; for these conservatives, a mix of D.C.
A familiar voice opens the latest episode of The Dropout, Hulu’s series about the fall of the infamous blood-testing start-up Theranos: “You founded this company 12 years ago, right? Tell them how old you were.” It’s former President Bill Clinton, praising the company founder and figurehead, Elizabeth Holmes, as played by Amanda Seyfried. “I was 19,” Seyfried replies in Holmes’s near-parodic baritone, to a wave of admiring laughter and applause.
Despite concerns about the bill’s policy and strategy from both sides of the aisle, nearly all House Democrats as well as a dozen Republicans voted for it Thursday.
Ashish Jha takes over the Covid task force at a point of transition in the pandemic fight.
The company met its study goals, but experts are split over whether the data will be sufficient for the Food and Drug Administration.
White House officials deny any sense of panic over the economy or their midterm chances.
The administration’s difficulties in getting bank cop nominees through a Democratic-controlled Senate underscore the fault lines within the party over how to approach financial regulation.
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates — but Congress has a chance to bring real relief.
The increase reported by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
The Fed is already expected to begin a campaign of interest rate increases next month in a bid to remove its support for economic growth amid a blistering job market and rapidly rising prices.
With COVID-19 coverage ending for the uninsured, we look at how uninsured people and communities of color will bear the impact of the end to free COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccines, and how the pandemic has led to a renewed push for Medicare for All. We are joined by Dr. Oni Blackstock, primary care and HIV physician and founder and executive director of Health Justice, and Dr.
Something you just can’t unsee.
Something you just can’t unsee.
The Arizona Republican now claims his controversial participation was just to say, ‘Welcome to the Miami area. Have a great conference,” and the U.S. is in crisis.
Hello Friday! It has been another long week, filled with wins for labor and losses for the GOP. Can Biden and Democrats get their messaging together and pound home how morally bankrupt and abjectly corrupt the Republican Party is? It remains to be seen, but having 193 Republicans vote against lowering insulin costs for Americans could be a red flag for some.
Almost five decades after the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide, abortion rights are at great risk. Across the country, Republican-majority states are introducing bills to ban abortion at a rapid rate. At least 15 GOP-controlled states have introduced bills that ban abortion despite circumstances of incest or rape, with some proposed bans beginning as early as 30 days after conception.
The Gays for Trump founder said the former president was probably expecting to see the “stereotypical” gay who fits with the “typical ‘look’ of leftist LGBT.
A decade after her failed vice presidential bid, the former Alaska governor is running to replace conservative GOP Rep. Don Young, who died last week.
A large study confirms it: Ivermectin is not an effective treatment for COVID-19. If you have parasites, the drug might be a good choice—follow your doctor’s advice on that. But a double-blinded study of 1,300 patients in Brazil, half of whom got ivermectin and half of whom got a placebo, found no benefit from the drug.
Ivermectin does not reduce the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, the study found.
NASA FIRMS satellite imagery is designed to track forest fires. Turns out, it’s also great at letting us know what’s happening on a battlefield.
I added the bigger, highlighted city names for better readability. Other than one fire northwest of Kyiv, that whole front is quiet. We know that Ukrainian troops are mopping up after Russia’s withdrawal.
The North Carolina congressman blamed “the left and the media” for accurately reporting his comments on a right-wing YouTube channel last week.
There is a tradition of presidents having a single photographer chronicling the experience of their administration. There are obviously lots of photographers taking photos of the administration for various news outlets, and there are White House staff photographers, but only one is tapped to be the chief White House photographer to the president.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which invoked the controversial order in March 2020 to limit the spread of Covid-19, said the policy is no longer needed to protect public health.