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901 | Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly took the blame for the rocky rollout of President Trump’s travel ban on people from seven mostly Muslim countries. Kelly defended the ban in an appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee, which he labeled a ”pause,” as lawful and constitutional. But he said he should ... |
902 | Outside the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle last Friday afternoon, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson suddenly found himself in the national spotlight after federal Judge James L. Robart had just imposed an immediate, nationwide halt to President Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. A... |
903 | Updated at 4:45 p. m. ET, The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted an easement allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, paving the way for construction of the final 1. 5 miles of the nearly pipeline. In doing so, the Army cut short its en... |
904 | The confirmation today of Betsy DeVos as the 11th U. S. secretary of education brought angry denunciations and firm pledges of support — no surprise for a Cabinet nominee who had become a lightning rod for Americans’ views about their public schools. Here’s our roundup, with excerpts from reactions around the countr... |
905 | Today the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s education secretary, . Vice President Pence had to cast an unprecedented vote, after hearings that became fodder for Saturday Night Live after angry constituents swamped Senate offices with 1. 5 million calls a day after two Republican senators defected and... |
906 | This story is part one of a investigation. Read part two here. Ellen Bethea sat alongside her husband’s hospital bed after doctors told her that Archie, the man she had been married to for almost five decades, wouldn’t make it. ”As soon as everybody else was asleep and I was sitting there with him, he passed on,” she... |
907 | Updated at 4:50 p. m. ET, A wall of dangerous storms is moving across the South, threatening communities in their path with high winds, severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. The National Weather Service warned of severe thunderstorms and hail along the Mississippi coast and issued a series of rapidly updated tor... |
908 | At a roundtable meeting with county sheriffs on Tuesday morning, President Trump repeated a false statistic about the U. S. murder rate that he repeatedly deployed on the campaign trail. On multiple occasions Trump has suggested the murder rate is at a historic high, a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. In fact, ... |
909 | At a gathering of sheriffs at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump joked about destroying the career of a Texas politician who is trying to set limits on an police practice. The remark came after a participant at the sheriff’s roundtable raised the issue of asset forfeiture — that’s when the government seiz... |
910 | A widely used blood test to measure trends can give imprecise results, depending on a person’s race and other factors. This test means diabetes can sometimes be misdiagnosed or managed poorly. Doctors have been cautioned before that results from the A1C test don’t have pinpoint accuracy. A study published Tuesday und... |
911 | Beatrice Sanchez and Mariana Arias drive around their city, N. C. in search of a very specific population of residents: Latinos with prediabetes. The two women, both bilingual and Hispanic, are recruiting participants for a Type 2 diabetes prevention study called ”La Comunidad,” a local version of the landmark Diab... |
912 | If a refugee commits a crime, will a federal judge have blood on his hands? President Trump says yes. After Judge James L. Robart temporarily blocked an executive order that stopped all refugees as well as visitors from seven countries, the president wrote on Twitter: ”Just cannot believe a judge would put our countr... |
913 | Israel’s parliament has passed a law that retroactively legalizes almost 4, 000 settler homes built unlawfully on private Palestinian land in the West Bank, a move that critics say is a massive blow to any future peace deal. The Knesset approved the legislation in a vote Monday evening, at a time when Israel has ramp... |
914 | When Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 War, no Israeli citizens had lived in the territory for nearly two decades, since an earlier war. But in 1968, a small group of religious Jews rented rooms at the Park Hotel in Hebron for Passover, saying they wanted to be near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, one of the holi... |
915 | Women with breast cancer who are at high risk for having a BRCA mutation that raises cancer risk often don’t get genetic testing, or even a chance to speak with a genetic counselor who’d help them weigh the necessity of such a test, a study finds. Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes increase the risk of breast and o... |
916 | Comedian and actor Irwin Corey, for whom the word ”however” was the perfect opening line, has died at age 102. With an impish grin and wild hair, Corey was a nightclub and fixture who worked with stars from Jackie Gleason to Woody Allen. His admirers ranged from Damon Runyon to Lenny Bruce. Corey died Monday evening,... |
917 | Everyone expects Congress to change the Affordable Care Act, but no one knows exactly how. The uncertainty has one group of people, the homeless, especially concerned. Many received health coverage for the first time under Obamacare now they’re worried it will disappear. Joseph Funn, homeless for almost 20 years, says ... |
918 | If you’ve heard of interval training, you can probably thank Martin Gibala, professor and chair of the kinesiology department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, whose research has helped popularize the exercise technique. Interval training comes in many different flavors, but the general idea is to alternat... |
919 | As he wends his way through the crowded alleys of a neighborhood, Jakarta Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama stops to pick up a young Muslim girl in a headscarf, as residents and reporters snap pictures. He stops at a local mosque, where an all team strikes up a groove with drums and tambourines to cheer him on in his cam... |
920 | The wall of silence in Indonesia surrounding one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century is beginning to fall apart. A forthcoming report by Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights estimates that a purge of suspected communists during the killed between 600, 000 and 1 million people. The violence reshaped... |
921 | In the foothills of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a gravel road leads to a fence. Type in a key code, and a gate scrapes open. Undo a chain to get behind another. Everything here is made of metal, because the residents of this facility are experts at invasion and destruction. They’re wild pigs, aka feral swine, wild h... |
922 | Updated at 10:25 a. m. ET on Feb. 7, A newly released report by Amnesty International alleges a widespread and systematic attack by Syria’s government against its civilian population, including murder, torture, enforced disappearances and extermination carried out at a military prison called Saydnaya. The report’s exec... |
923 | When Mana Heshmati isn’t working as an engineer, she’s cooking traditional Iranian food through her ” ” Peace Meal Kitchen, a dining series based in Detroit. It’s a way to expose diners to her Iranian heritage and dispel misconceptions about the often misunderstood country. She held her first in April to the deligh... |
924 | Many resettlement agencies are relieved refugees can once again come to the U. S. now that a federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that suspended the refugee program. So far, the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request by the Trump administration to restore the temporary ref... |
925 | In fiction we seek a paradox, the familiar in the foreign, new realities that only this one particular author can give us. Pachinko, the sophomore novel by the gifted Min Jin Lee, is the kind of book that can open your eyes and fill them with tears at the same time. Pachinko, for those not in the know, is one of the ... |
926 | White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is known to have cultivated ties with parties in Europe, like the National Front in France. He also seems to have forged an alliance with Vatican who oppose Pope Francis’ less rigid approach to church doctrine. The New York Times reported this week on Bannon’s connections a... |
927 | The racial wealth gap has been measured and studied for decades. One fact has remained the same: White families build and accumulate more wealth more quickly than black and brown families do. The reasons for this are multiple and . They start at slavery and traverse the historical and deliberate exclusion of people of... |
928 | Two lawyers, three judges, thousands of ordinary Americans: On Tuesday night, oral arguments in Washington v. Trump attracted an unusually large audience for legal proceedings. The case centers on President Trump’s controversial executive order that would temporarily bar all new refugees from entering the U. S. as we... |
929 | President Trump addressed the legal battle over his immigration ban on Wednesday morning, saying the courts ”seem so political.” Speaking to a gathering of sheriffs and police chiefs in Washington, D. C. Trump said he had watched television coverage of the oral arguments before the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals on... |
930 | Customers who walked through the door of Everyman Espresso, a cafe in New York’s East Village, last weekend got a pitch at the counter to support a fundraiser to help defend immigrants. ”We’re donating 5 percent [of our proceeds] to the ACLU in response to the travel ban,” Eric Grimm, a manager at the cafe, explained... |
931 | School traffic never bothers Max Schneider. In the airplane he takes to class every day, his commute is pretty easy. It’s nearly 7:30 a. m. when a small, Piper Saratoga plane takes off from the mainland in Port Clinton, Ohio. Pilot Bob Ganley is on his way to pick up students heading to school. His first stop is Midd... |
932 | Sunrise, sunset: light into darkness, darkness into light. This perpetual cycling through archetypal phases of yin and yang, light slapstick and dour melodrama, is what lends Batman his unique mutability. His fellow heroes are a more stolid lot. They tend to pick a lane and stick with it. Not Batman. Dude’s ephemeral. ... |
933 | Used to be, you could count on two fundamental truths: 1. Superheroes were jocks. 2. People who loved superhero comics were nerds. Sweeping generalizations to be sure, and they grew steadily less and less true every time, over the last 75+ years, superheroes escaped the comic book page for radio, television and movies,... |
934 | Seattle’s City Council has voted to not renew its contract with Wells Fargo, in a move that cites the bank’s role as a lender to the Dakota Access Pipeline project as well as its creation of millions of bogus accounts. As a result, the city won’t renew its contract with the bank that expires next year. The unanimous vo... |
935 | The words were those of Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But they resulted in a rarely invoked Senate rule being used to formally silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, . On the Senate floor Tuesday night, Warren read aloud from a letter Scott King wrote in 1986, when King objected to President Rea... |
936 | When Senate Republicans silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren, . during debate over the nomination of Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general, they sparked a furious response — but also used a rule that’s meant to encourage civil debate. Senate Rule 19 includes this prohibition: ”No Senator in debate shall, directly or... |
937 | A day after Senate Republicans invoked a conduct rule to end Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s speech against the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U. S. attorney general, a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King urging the Senate to reject Sessions’ nomination as a federal judge is gaining new prominence. Warren was reading alou... |
938 | As part of our celebration of Black History Month and culture, we turn this week to how the influence of Africa has been interpreted in various Latin and Caribbean cultures. The music of West Africa, where a majority of those enslaved in the Americas came from, was diffused through both an indigenous and Spanish filt... |
939 | The International Committee of the Red Cross says six of its staff members were shot dead and two are missing after their convoy was attacked by unknown assailants in Afghanistan. The Red Cross workers were on their way to deliver livestock materials when they were attacked near the town of Shibergan in the northern pr... |
940 | There’s no way to avoid it. As the cost of college grows, research shows that so does the number of hungry and homeless students at colleges and universities across the country. Still, many say the problem is invisible to the public. ”It’s invisible even to me and I’m looking,” says Wick Sloan. He came to Bunker Hill C... |
941 | Student parent. Ever heard that term? It’s used for a student who is also a parent, and there are nearly 5 million of them in colleges around the country. That’s over a quarter of the undergraduate population, and that number has gone up by around a million since 2011. It can be really, really expensive to be a student... |
942 | If President Trump wants to keep his promise to send new detainees to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, there’s plenty of room. ”We haven’t received any orders to take additional detainees in,” says Navy Capt. John Filostrat. ”But if given the order, we could go ahead and comply.” Filostrat, a spokesman for the i... |
943 | A surprise winner has been declared in Somalia’s presidential election — Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a former prime minister and the popular favorite who was running against the incumbent president. Somali lawmakers cast their votes in a heavily fortified airport in a country plagued by regular militant attacks. Twen... |
944 | Ever since Donald Trump was elected president in November, questions have been raised about the lease he signed to operate a luxury hotel in the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D. C. The lease specifically says the lease holder cannot be a federal elected official. So critics repeatedly have called upon the fed... |
945 | The official address of Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower is 325 Bay St. in the middle of the city’s financial district. Think of it as Canada’s answer to Wall Street. But the hotel’s entrance is actually around the corner. So instead of seeing a grand facade bearing the Trump name, what you see from the pr... |
946 | President Trump’s approval rating with voters may be the lowest on record for an incoming chief executive. But in one way at least, his popularity is improving a bit. The value of Trump as a commercial brand, although still very low, has ticked up since August, according to the Reputation Institute, which measures the ... |
947 | It was a familiar scene for many in New Orleans East, part of the city’s Ninth Ward. ”As helicopters hovered overhead and emergency response vehicles streamed into neighborhoods, it reminded them of [Hurricane] Katrina,” reported Tegan Wendland of member station WWNO in New Orleans. ”The area was hit hard by that storm... |
948 | Sure, the dictionary’s a resource designed to give an accurate accounting of words in all their many shapes and sizes, their definitions and their spellings. But whatever finality a dictionary’s thick binding implies, it’s destined to beg adjustment just as soon as it has been set, as words take shape, wither from disu... |
949 | This story is part two of a investigation. Read part one here. Shortly after Ed Howard’s father was diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer and given six months to live, Howard and his sister Kathy sat down and talked about what to do. One worry was their dad’s funeral arrangements. They decided Kathy would call... |
950 | He called himself an ”edutainer.” He had a knack for explaining difficult concepts — global inequality, climate change, disease and poverty. He used maps, humor and props like storage boxes and colored stones to tell the story of our world and to advocate for the poor: ”Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. Yo... |
951 | As Republicans move to overhaul the health law, should people bother paying the penalty for not having health insurance when they file their taxes this year? Or will they be able to sign up on the exchange for 2018 after their COBRA benefits end? Here are some answers to recent questions from readers. I didn’t have hea... |
952 | Colin opens the door to his greenhouse in Mt. Vernon, Wash. and a rush of warm air pours out. ”Basically, it’s summer all year long here,” he jokes. a PhD student at Washington State University, and WSU professor Steven Jones have developed a new species: a cross between wheat and its wild cousin, wheat grass. They... |
953 | To go to space we need math. Lots of it. Most of us look in awe at the towering rocket ship strapped to the launching platform and forget the tremendous amount of work it took for it to get there — and, from there, to get into Earth’s orbit and beyond. Engineering, math, physics, chemistry, computer science: It’s al... |
954 | FX’s Legion is a superhero TV show that resists admitting it is one. Which is both the most satisfying and frustrating thing about it. Here’s the setup: David Haller is a guy who hears voices in his head. It’s driven him to drugs, occasionally criminal behavior and a suicide attempt. (Alert TV fans will recognize the... |
955 | Seeing a great work of art might quicken your pulse, but now New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping you’ll break a sweat, too. The Met is currently offering a ”Museum Workout” — part performance, part workout, part art tour. On a recent morning, 15 of us gather in The Great Hall before the museum opens... |
956 | Painter David Hockney once said, ”It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.” On Thursday in London, a major retrospective at Tate Britain will give visitors the chance to see 60 years of the English artist’s ”doings.” Oils, acrylics, sketches, photographs, smar... |
957 | Political statements are easy to see when they’re on signs or buttons or in tweets. But then there are those that are hidden from view, until you log in to the right place. For example, when you look for new networks to get online. President Trump’s supporters and opponents have expanded their battlefield even to the... |
958 | Updated at 7:50 p. m. ET, A federal appeals court has unanimously rejected a Trump administration request to allow its travel ban to take effect. The appeals panel declined to overturn a lower court’s order suspending the president’s ban against entry into the United States by refugees and travelers from seven nati... |
959 | Archaeologists from the U. S. and Israel say they have found evidence that a 12th cave was used to store Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient manuscripts dating back to the time of Jesus. ”This exciting excavation is the closest we’ve come to discovering new Dead Sea scrolls in 60 years,” Oren Gutfeld of The Hebrew University... |
960 | Cary Dixon’s son has struggled with opioid abuse for years. At first, Dixon says, it was hard to know how to support him as he cycled through several rounds of treatment and incarceration. She says her life revolved around his addiction. ”It’s kind of like you’re on a parallel track with them,” she says. ”You wait f... |
961 | Decorations are sparse at Recovery Point, a residential treatment center in Huntington, W. Va. That’s why the bulletin board covered with photos of men stands out. The men spent time here, but didn’t survive their addictions. They’re all dead now. ”We keep a constant reminder in here for individuals who come into our d... |
962 | After President Trump blocked U. S. aid money from supporting any group that provides or ”promotes” abortion in other countries, The Netherlands announced it would launch a fundraising initiative to support any affected organizations. Now, several other countries — including Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Canada — ... |
963 | It’s President Donald Trump’s first official act on the abortion issue. On Monday, the new president signed a presidential memorandum reinstating the ”Mexico City” policy — barring U. S. aid from any group that provides or ”promotes” abortion overseas. The policy dates to 1984, when Ronald Reagan unveiled it at a Un... |
964 | It’s a policy battle that has been playing out over three decades. In 1984, Ronald Reagan imposed an rule — known as the ”Mexico City policy” after the city where he announced it. The rule blocked federal funding for international family planning charities unless they agreed not to ”promote” abortion by, among o... |
965 | Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of the agricultural revolution, many of our worst infectious diseases didn’t exist. Here’s what changed. With the rise of agriculture, for the first time in history humans were living in close contact with domesticated animals — milking them, taking care of them and, of course, ea... |
966 | Updated at 8 p. m. ET, Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, may have violated federal ethics rules Thursday when she urged shoppers to buy Ivanka Trump’s retail brand, following the decision by several retail companies to drop the line because of poor sales. ”Go buy Ivanka’s stuff, is what I was [saying]... |
967 | A bit more than a decade ago, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, Scott McClellan, found his credibility in tatters after it became clear he had misled reporters about the leaking of the name of a CIA operative. Even though he arguably had been set up by White House aides, McClellan resigned some months late... |
968 | Ask anyone about his or her health care and you are likely to hear about doctors, hospitals, maybe costs and insurance hassles. Most people don’t go straight from ”my health” to a political debate, and yet that is what our country has been embroiled in for almost a decade. A study published Thursday tries to set aside ... |
969 | Premiums for Obamacare plans sold by New Mexico Health Connections could rise as little as 7 percent next year, said Martin Hickey, the insurance company’s CEO. Or they might soar as much as 40 percent, he said. It all depends on what happens in Washington. Such is the vast uncertainty about how the Trump administratio... |
970 | Updated at 2:49 p. m. ET, An Arizona woman who has lived in the U. S. for more than two decades was arrested Wednesday night after her regular with immigration officials and has been deported to Mexico. She was sent to Nogales, Mexico, on Thursday, reports Katherine Fritcke of member station KJZZ. Guadalupe Garcia de... |
971 | Tuesday was a busy day for education policy. Betsy DeVos, you may have heard, was confirmed as secretary of education with an unprecedented tiebreaker vote. The House of Representatives also voted to throw out a lot of rules that were decided on just last year. These rules tell states how to comply with the new federal... |
972 | Updated at 3:20 p. m. ET President Trump started the day by blasting a Democratic senator who revealed criticism of Trump from his nominee to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Judge Neil Gorsuch told Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal that he found President Trump’s recent attacks on judges to be ”demoralizing” and ”di... |
973 | This is day six without police patrolling the streets in Espirito Santo, a state in southern Brazil. And hundreds of army troops have not been able to quell a spasm of deadly violence there that has reportedly killed more than 100 people. ”This is happening because the state’s police are — in effect — on strike b... |
974 | Thousands more troops and billions more dollars are needed to break the war in Afghanistan out of a ”stalemate,” the top U. S. commander in Afghanistan warned Congress on Thursday. Army Gen. John Nicholson also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that outside powers have increased their meddling in Afghanistan ove... |
975 | Updated on Feb. 10 at 1:40 p. m. ET. If President Trump were to call a meeting of his Cabinet today, he wouldn’t need a very big table. Or, he’d have to invite a bunch of Obama administration holdovers serving temporarily in acting roles. With the Senate’s confirmation this week of Betsy DeVos as education secretary, J... |
976 | For all the talk of Hollywood smut rotting the moral fabric of society, it’s worth noting that, when the public demanded the industry embrace a franchise whose only claim to fame was smut, it chose instead to keep things . Fifty Shades of Grey, the first book in E. L. James’s massively popular trilogy of erotica tha... |
977 | President Trump met with airline executives on Thursday morning and had a message they were happy to hear, vowing to roll back regulations, lower corporate taxes and modernize the air traffic control system. Trump said his private pilot, ”a real expert” and a ”smart guy,” has told him that the government has been buyin... |
978 | Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives Thursday in Washington for talks on Friday with Donald Trump, an effort by this longtime Asian ally to get a better read on the way forward with the unpredictable new U. S. president. The trip comes just a week after the Trump administration made its first appearance overseas.... |
979 | With the Dakota Access Pipeline now cleared to cross under a reservoir in the Missouri River, one of the two Native American tribes fighting the pipeline has filed a legal challenge to the plan, according to the Associated Press. The Cheyenne River Sioux ”filed a legal challenge in federal court in Washington, D. C. on... |
980 | Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says the U. S. needs to ”do a better job to vet” residents of seven countries that the Trump administration has temporarily banned from entering the U. S. In an interview with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin, the retired Marine Corps general said the ban, which has been block... |
981 | Luther Strange will go from being Alabama’s attorney general to being the state’s junior senator, as Gov. Robert Bentley says he will appoint Strange to the seat vacated by Sen. Jeff Sessions — who’s slated to be sworn in as the new U. S. attorney general Thursday morning. ”I am greatly honored and humbled to accept... |
982 | The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s nominee Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general, bringing an end to a bitter confirmation fight that has dredged up past accusations of racism against the Alabama senator. The vote was largely along party lines, with only centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Vi... |
983 | Updated at 6:35 p. m. ET, On Thursday, a panel of the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling that upheld a lower federal court’s decision to temporarily block a Jan. 27 executive order on immigration. The order suspends admissions for 120 days, bans Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocks tra... |
984 | President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be spending their weekend getting to know each other at in Palm Beach, Fla. And that’s really the purpose of the club: to allow people to socialize at a spectacular estate built nearly a century ago by a wealthy heiress. The White House says the preside... |
985 | Updated at 2:30 p. m. ET, At a joint news conference Friday, President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to shed any perceptions of mistrust between two countries that have been longtime allies. In no uncertain terms, both leaders upheld their friendly relations — both diplomatic and personal — ... |
986 | Updated at 3:45 p. m. ET, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U. S. in December included a discussion of U. S. sanctions imposed by Barack Obama, according to new reports that contradict what the White House has said about the matter. The sanctions included the expulsion... |
987 | President Trump and his top aides can’t seem to shake the Russian bear that follows them around. It put its paw on the scales of the U. S. presidential election last year, according to the U. S. intelligence community. It cost Trump his manager, Paul Manafort. And now the connections between Trump’s camp and Moscow m... |
988 | The sudden deportation Thursday of an Arizona woman who had regularly checked in with U. S. immigration authorities for years has prompted a stark warning from Mexico’s government. Mexican nationals in the U. S. now face a ”new reality,” authorities warned in a statement. ”The case of Mrs. [Guadalupe] Garcia de Rayos i... |
989 | Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean are sending more money to their families back home than ever before. These annual ”remittances” — as they’re called by analysts — topped $69 billion in 2016, according to central bank data compiled in a new report by the Dialogue, a Washington, D. C. . The money h... |
990 | When author Viet Thanh Nguyen was 4 years old, he and his family fled South Vietnam and came to the U. S. as refugees. That’s about the same age his own son is now — and Nguyen wonders if his child will ever know the feeling of ”otherness” that he knows so well. ”I think it’s a very valuable experience,” Nguyen tell... |
991 | The Environmental Protection Agency’s presence at an environmental conference in Alaska this week was cut in half, after the Trump administration’s transition officials ordered the change. The agency had helped to plan the Alaska Forum on the Environment — but days before it was to start, word came that half of the ... |
992 | Science is knowledge. The practice of science is nothing more, and nothing less, than the earnest and thoughtful work of figuring things out, of trying to understand, of learning how things work. Scientists are people committed to this practice, or to a community of shared practice. They work together to understand. An... |
993 | Updated at 7:40 a. m. ET, By the time Ceree Morrison found hundreds of pilot whales washed ashore on a remote beach in New Zealand 250 to 300 of them were already dead. The rest remained alive on Farewell Spit, a long strip of land that hooks from the country’s South Island into the sea. The scene was devastating. ”You... |
994 | In New Orleans, hundreds of families are trying to put their lives back together after a tornado touched down in New Orleans East on Tuesday. It tore up homes and businesses in a predominantly black neighborhood that was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. People like Aretha Conley are hoping it will be easier to rebuild th... |
995 | President Trump is defending the Jan. 29 Yemen raid, in which an American Navy SEAL was killed, as a ”winning mission.” He is also lashing out at Republican Sen. John McCain, who called the raid a ”failure.” Trump chastised McCain for talking to the media about it, saying it ”only emboldens the enemy,” and whacked McCa... |
996 | When last spotted in his indigenous habitat, John Oliver was sharing his perception of 2016 and what was to come: a dystopian hellscape. All for laughs. Or largely for laughs, anyway. The British comedian is host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, and he embarks on a new season on Sunday night after a layoff. In an int... |
997 | On Wednesday morning, a Red Cross staffer in Afghanistan pushed his vehicle’s panic button. Three Red Cross vehicles were heading to meet up with a convoy of trucks carrying ”winter feed” — food for livestock — in the remote northern province of Jowzjan in Afghanistan. The plan was for the Red Cross staff to help... |
998 | There’s a vibrance to the current music of Esmé Patterson that I wasn’t expecting, having listened to her previous band Paper Bird. Gone are the banjos and remnants of folk music, and in their place are electric guitars — sometimes fierce and, here at the Tiny Desk, somewhat understated. She’s a relative newcomer to... |
999 | Like many awards shows, the Grammys are about more than just honoring artistic achievement: They’re also about anointing ambassadors for a music industry that’s forced to evolve as quickly and constantly as trends and technology mandate. Of course, the awards also attempt to represent dozens of genres, from tradition... |
1,000 | ’s relationship with the Grammys began with a mutual dis. The year was 1989 and the Recording Academy, in recognizing the genre for the first time, decided rap’s revolution would not be televised. Will Smith, then known by his stage moniker the Fresh Prince, took it as a ”slap in the face,” the rapper said at the time... |
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