The power of Jackass has always rested with the peanut gallery. Almost every ridiculous, painful stunt Johnny Knoxville and his gang of nimrods have pulled over the past 20-plus years has come with a reliable laugh track: the rest of the ensemble gathered around to watch, doubled over and cackling as someone subjects themselves to unspeakable injury.
Sign up for Charlie’s newsletter, Galaxy Brain, here.Here is my confession: I’m traumatized by a David Letterman clip. It’s from November 1995, and Letterman’s guest is a young, bespectacled Bill Gates. The video starts with a question from the legendary late-night host: “What about this internet thing?” he asks.
Bernie Moreno should have been a contender. Instead, he has dropped out of the race for Ohio’s Senate seat after spending millions of his own money and never reaching even fifth place in polls of the Republican primary. It’s a story with a lesson, a very sad lesson.Moreno, age 54, declared last year for the seat now held by Ohio Republican Rob Portman.
One day in January 2020, a team of experts from Beijing arrived in Wuhan, China, to investigate the origins and assess the scale of an outbreak of a mysterious virus. At least 60 people in Wuhan had already fallen ill. Troublingly, cases had begun to surface in Thailand and Japan.The same day, Chinese President Xi Jinping departed from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, where he had met with the country’s leaders.
Medicare will directly pay certain pharmacies and other participating entities.
The new moonshot lands one year into Biden’s presidency, giving the administration a long runaway to steer its progress.
Biden and his top health officials have already begun hinting at an impending “new normal.
State audits could lead to as many as 15 million people, including 6 million children, losing their health insurance, according to one analysis.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
The United Nations warns Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread” as millions in the country suffer from hunger and are at risk of freezing to death during the winter as U.S. sanctions have devastated the economy. We get an update on what is now the world’s largest humanitarian crisis from Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin urged the former vice president to “wake up” when it comes to the former president.
The newspaper’s editorial board burst the bubble on the Missouri GOP senator’s presidential aspirations, slamming him as “grossly unfit” for office.
Trump accused Pence of being an “automatic conveyor belt” for ‘Old Crow Mitch McConnell’ to get Joe Biden elected in odd statement.
Trump and others “engaged in a concerted effort to … direct rally participants to storm the Capitol, enter the grounds, ‘fight like hell,’” argues the Jan. 6 case brief.
The Capitol riot was “mob violence,” not “legitimate political discourse,” as the Republican National Committee claims, said GOP Sen. Ben Sasse.
It is Friday! This week has been filled with a mixture of ennui and anticipation for less ennui. The flashiest battles going on right now seem to be between the Republican Party and the Republican Party. While the Liz Cheney establishment wing of the GOP diminishes, they still have one ace card—the MAGA wing of the party probably broke at least a million laws.
The first concert I ever saw was Prince in Washington, D.C. in 1984. I snuck out of my house and joined up with four of my closest girlfriends. Terrified for my little preteen life, we gathered together in a small group to protect ourselves from the massive and sexually charged crowd, but that night I became a lifelong Prince fan.
Truthfully, I fell in love with the Purple One with the Dirty Mind album.
Can anyone still say with a straight face that Donald Trump wasn’t trying to illegally overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election? Everything he did from Nov. 3, 2020 to Jan.
On Wednesday, Minneapolis police executed a no-knock warrant on a downtown apartment and then in the next nine seconds, proceeded to shoot and kill 22-year-old Amir Locke, as he lay wrapped up in a blanket on a couch. Interim police Chief Amelia Huffman told reporters that the shooting took place around 7 a.m. The officers who entered the apartment were SWAT team members acting on warrants in service of the St. Paul Police Department.
A South Carolina county is set to shell out $700,000 in a civil settlement after a teen girl was “mauled by a police dog and shot five times by deputies,” the victim’s attorneys announced in a news release Tuesday. The injured teen, a white girl who wasn’t identified in the release, was 16 years old at the time of the incident on Aug. 11, 2020 in Anderson County. Deputies shot her without a clear line of sight, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in the release.
Sign up for Conor’s newsletter here.Earlier this week, I asked for your thoughts on racial preferences in college admissions. For context, Pew found in 2019 that “most Americans (73%) say colleges and universities should not consider race or ethnicity when making decisions about student admissions. Just 7% say race should be a major factor in college admissions, while 19% say it should be a minor factor.
Attempts to summarize the Showtime series Yellowjackets have mostly had to rely on creaky comparisons: a female Lord of the Flies … a ’90s Stranger Things … a teen Lost, but in Canada. The coming-of-age horror story is indeed tough to categorize, but nonetheless thrillingly addictive. The show follows a championship-bound girls’ soccer team that crashes in the wilderness in 1996, threading their story with that of the surviving members as adults in 2021.
Licensure doesn’t materially affect the status quo — the licensed vaccine’s formula is identical to that authorized for emergency use.
These days, if you hear about the birth of an Olivia or a Liam, you might feel a pang of sympathy—the poor child has been cursed with the most popular name of their time and might be at risk of sharing it with a kindergarten classmate.This wasn’t always considered an undesirable outcome.
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
On Monday, campus life at at least seven historically Black colleges and universities was interrupted by bomb threats. School leaders alerted students, faculty, and staff. Law-enforcement officers swept the grounds. By midday, some campuses had issued an all-clear while others continued assessing the situation.
Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. It’s the latest public victory for this form of … and, you know, there’s the problem. What the hell is an NFT anyway?There are answers. Twitter calls NFTs “unique digital items, such as artwork, with proof of ownership that’s stored on a blockchain.
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.