In the first episode of Loki, the trickster god of the Marvel Cinematic Universe—last seen escaping in a time-travel snafu during Avengers: Endgame—is captured and taken to a mysterious hinterland that exists outside of time and space and resembles nothing so much as a mushroom-colored 1970s airport. The walls are paneled in wood. The ceiling, covered in hundreds of circular light fixtures, stretches vastly into the distance, its composition pure Kubrick.
Trump created the Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement Office by executive order during his first week in office.
At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.
Andrew Yang and Eric Adams both make the left’s skin crawl, but one of them is likely to be mayor.
“This is the time of your life,” the nurse said to me as she searched for a vein. At 27, I finally had health insurance and could get the colonoscopy that doctors had been suggesting for years, so I was feeling pretty good about things—as good as one can feel after having spent the previous 12 hours in the bathroom. But she wasn’t referring to the procedure; she was talking about my age.
She said she “needed our friendship to be normal.
Few lawmakers have criticized the $56,000-per-year price tag that shocked many experts, even as Democrats weigh a drug pricing overhaul.
In April, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a lecture at Harvard Law School with the less-than-scintillating title “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.” He argued strongly—and, at least in my view, unconvincingly—that Supreme Court justices are above politics. Breyer insisted that “jurisprudential differences,” not political ones, “account for most, perhaps almost all, of judicial disagreements.
The Wisconsin Republican’s one-week ban from uploading videos stems from his comments to the Milwaukee Press Club event, which were posted on the platform.
For most of her life, Gulfisha Fatima showed little interest in anything beyond academics. By late 2019, the 27-year-old Delhi resident had finished her M.B.A. and was getting ready to apply for a Ph.D. Even as a student, she stayed away from activism. “Her world,” her brother Aqil told me, “revolved around books.”That began to change in December of that year.
The picture of socially distanced world leaders standing on a beach in England has gone viral.
“It wasn’t like driving a Ferrari. For someone who’s not great at parking, I wouldn’t recommend it.
It’s not what the pundits think. It’s what the money guys are doing.
The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?
A late-breaking campaign controversy, explained.
The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee grappled with how to ensure the safety of Covid shots in children as disease caseloads continue to dwindle in the U.S.
Fatigue over America’s long-running drug crisis and anti-science sentiment are fueling backlash against needle exchanges.
President Joe Biden will announce the plan tomorrow ahead of the G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom.
It’s even worse than I thought.
Teacher advice on vacation, potty training, and social justice.
“The yearbook is about capturing the students, not the building.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
President Biden’s plan to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and donate them to 92 countries comes as health experts warn vaccination inequity could prolong the pandemic for everyone if the coronavirus continues to mutate, possibly making it more infectious and resistant to vaccines.
Using the Justice Department to gather private information about members of Congress carried echoes of Nixon during Watergate.
It’s Friday! Another week, another series of confusing politician and traditional media uses of the word “bipartisan.” The infrastructure bill that virtually every American wants and needs to happen continues to be held up by anti-democracy politics.
