Barack Obama’s Scaled-Down Birthday Bash Still Has A Lot Of Celebs
The party, which reportedly initially had some 475 invitees, was downsized due to delta variant concerns. But it’s not clear what that means.
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Another sad marker of the Southern Residents’ decline: Beloved orca K21 Cappuccino dies at 35
FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington—K21 Cappuccino was a gregarious, curious, and kindly orca. He liked to engage in play behaviors—breaching, spyhopping, slapping his pectoral fins. And he was generally quite fearless about approaching human boaters who were in his waters. He seemed to always be curious about the crazy monkeys.
Texas Democrats Continue Holdout, Don’t Show For New Session
More than 50 Democrats last month bolted to the nation’s capital, but the precise whereabouts of each of them is unclear.
Senate Votes To Advance $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Over Weekend Session
The chamber is one baby step closer to passing it.
Why More Americans Aren’t Happy for Gregg Popovich
From time to time, Gregg Popovich, the coach of the United States men’s national basketball team—which won a gold medal last night at the Tokyo Olympics with an 87–82, as-close-as-it-sounds victory over France—suggests a mad poet howling from a windy hillside.
Help! We Eloped During COVID With My Mom’s Blessing. Now She’s Mad She “Wasn’t Invited.”
We did this for everyone’s safety, but she won’t stop complaining.
Where Did ‘Synchronized Swimming’ Go?
If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be called “artistic swimming,” effective immediately. Not everyone was a fan—to put it mildly.
‘The Revelation Was That I Was the Problem’
Genetically, Xand and Chris van Tulleken are clones. Yet the 42-year-old twins do not look identical, because Xand is more than 30 pounds heavier than Chris. That is the biggest weight difference recorded in the long-running twin study at King’s College London.The van Tullekens live in London. They argue about food—specifically, how much Xand eats—all the time. They are also both medical doctors, and they present British television shows on health and diet.
How Much Longer Can the Olympics Survive?
When Tokyo bids farewell to the Olympics this weekend, few people there will be sad to see it go. The Japanese public overwhelmingly opposed hosting the postponed Summer Games, fearing that it could exacerbate the country’s COVID-19 outbreak. In the final week of the competition, Japan broke a record no one wanted, reporting more than 14,000 cases a day—its highest since the pandemic began.
I Was Stunned to Learn the Truth About the Finances I Share With My Husband
We didn’t realize we were such an anomaly.
How Condo Buildings End
Aggressive developers looking for a way in—or desperate homeowners looking for a way out.
Why the Crypto Industry Is Having a Meltdown Over the Infrastructure Bill
The Shiba Inu memes are howling—and it turns out they also have teeth.
Why Biden Could Succeed Where Trump Failed on Infrastructure
How did Democrats overcome Republican intransigence in order to to take on one of their highest priorities?
Dems plot to squeeze health care promises into social spending bill
To squeeze as many of their priorities as possible in the budget resolution, lawmakers are discussing making some of the new health spending temporary.
New York City to mandate vaccines for indoor restaurants, gyms, performances
The new program to “unlock New York City” will begin Aug. 16, with enforcement set to start Sept. 13, according to City Hall.
‘Literally losing our workforce’: Florida schools defy DeSantis’ anti-mask order
School districts view the mask mandates as a matter of life or death.
Help! My Son’s Wife Is Getting Bigger and Butcher Than a Woman Should.
I’m afraid she’s going to emasculate him, looking like this.
Ask a Teacher: Ask a Teacher: How Can I Help My Lonely Middle Schooler Find Friends?
Is it too late to help my son facilitate friendships?
House Dem campaign chief warns the majority at risk without message reboot
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Biden’s economic gains come with newer worries about the future
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
U.S. economy surpasses prepandemic size with 6.5% Q2 growth
The growth is another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.
Virus resurgence menaces economy just as rescue programs unravel
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.
The pandemic drove women out of the workforce. Will they come back?
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
“They Killed Us from the Inside”: U.N. Inquiry Demanded into Officials’ Culpability in Beirut Blast
One year after the Beirut port explosion, a new Human Rights Watch report implicates senior Lebanese officials in the disaster that killed 218 people, wounded 7,000 others and destroyed vast swaths of the city. The blast on August 4, 2020, was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
News Roundup: COVID-19 continues to surge, infrastructure delayed, GOP blames everybody else
It’s Friday! Friday gets its name from love goddesses! Friday is also considered unlucky in some cultures, and very lucky (at least for crops) in others. Does it mean anything anymore that it’s Friday? Maybe not, in this era of 24/7 news and social media. But it matters to us, and to Daniel Craig.
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New details of Trump’s coup attempt show ‘an unnervingly plausible path to stealing the election’
Donald Trump isn’t just a sore loser. He isn’t even just a sore loser who indiscriminately lashed out and encouraged his supporters to riot. Donald Trump was at the head of an actual, methodical coup attempt last December and January, a fact that’s starting to draw more and more notice as details emerge.
Rep. Virginia Foxx gives a master class in how to offer condolences with no class whatsoever
Rep. Virginia Foxx wants the world to know exactly how committed she is to keeping workers down, and what better opportunity to broadcast it than the sudden death of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka? Foxx saw that opportunity, and she took it:
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Senate infrastructure push stalls out temporarily, will resume Saturday
The Senate worked late into Thursday night attempting to wrap up amendment work on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but failed. It recessed until Saturday so that many members could travel to Wyoming for the funeral of their former colleague, Republican Mike Enzi.