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We should take concerns about the health of liberal democracy seriously | This post is part of Polyarchy, an independent blog produced by the political reform program at New America, a Washington think tank devoted to developing new ideas and new voices. Imagine you are an otherwise healthy 30-something who starts feeling weird. You are sometimes short of breath. You get migraines. Your feet... |
Colts GM Ryan Grigson says Andrew Luck's contract makes it difficult to build the team | The Indianapolis Colts made Andrew Luck the highest-paid player in NFL history this offseason with a five-year, $122-million contract with $89 million guaranteed. However, they're already finding that Luck's contract is inhibiting their ability to address weaknesses on other parts of the roster, particularly on defens... |
Trump denies report he ordered Mueller fired | DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump denied a report on Friday that he had ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired last June, calling it “fake news”. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Trump backed down from his order after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than f... |
France's Sarkozy reveals his 'Passions' but insists no come-back on cards | PARIS (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy published a new memoir on Thursday but was quick to dismiss speculation he might return to politics to rescue his old center-right party, which has shed support since President Emmanuel Macron stormed to power. Entitled “Passions”, the autobiography documents S... |
Paris Hilton: Woman In Black For Uncle Monty's Funeral | Paris Hilton arrived at LAX Wednesday dressed to pay her last respects to her uncle Monty Brinson. Paris flew in from Switzerland especially for the funeral of Brinson, who used to be married to her aunt Kim Richards. Monty died Sunday after a long battle with cancer ... and the loss is obviously hitting Paris hard. Sh... |
ECB's Coeure: If we decide to cut rates, we'd have to consider tiering | BERLIN, June 17 (Reuters) - ECB board member Benoit Coeure said in an interview published on Monday that if the ECB decided cutting rates was the best option, it would have to consider what effect negative rates would have on banks and whether tiering was needed. A so-called tiered deposit rate would mean banks are ex... |
Venezuela detains six military, police officials: family members, activists | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities have arrested six members of the country’s military and police forces over the weekend, according to relatives of the detainees and human rights activists, as President Nicolas Maduro seeks to weed out dissent. Air Force Brigade General Miguel Sisco Mora was arrested Friday ... |
You Can Trick Your Brain Into Being More Focused | If only every day could be like this. You can’t put your finger on why: Maybe you had just the right amount of sleep. Maybe the stars are somehow aligned in your favor. Whatever the reason, you’re cooking on gas. Hours fly by like minutes, you’re feeling great, and before you know it it’s 5:30 pm and your to-do list is... |
How to watch the Google I/O keynote live | Google I/O, the company's big developer conference, kicks off today (May 18). It's a showcase for its newest updates on Android, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and more. (And a chance to bury last year's less-successful launches.) It should be interesting. Here's how you can watch it: With Google, on its YouT... |
China is dismissing unfavorable media reports as fake because that's what Trump does | China is dismissing unfavorable media reports as fake news because that’s what Trump does China is dismissing unfavorable media reports as fake news because that’s what Trump does In his short political career, Donald Trump has made a habit of dismissing unfavorable media reports as “fake news.” Now it seems Beijing ... |
“Elizabeth Warren called me!” is turning into a Twitter meme | Elizabeth Warren is giving people a new reason to pick up their phones when a call comes in from an unknown number: She might be on the line. It’s a way for the Massachusetts Democrat to thank her backers. It’s also a savvy political strategy to highlight and spread her grassroots support. Warren ignited a viral moment... |
Hudson's Bay's chairman's buyout bid pits retail versus real estate | (Reuters) - The success of Hudson’s Bay Co Executive Chairman Richard Baker’s $1.3 billion bid to take the department store operator private hinges on whether an independent valuator will view the company more as a retailer and less as a real estate owner, corporate governance experts and analysts said. Much of Hudson... |
Joakim Noah's Victoria Secret Model GF Lais Ribeiro Rocks Thong Bikini In Malibu | Joakim Noah's model girlfriend Lais Ribeiro was so damn hot in her thong bikini in Malibu this weekend -- we barely noticed the beach was littered with a ton of HUGE stars!! Seriously ... everyone from John McEnroe to Kenny Chesney and Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber were hanging out at Laird Hamilton's pad for a Sun... |
Jermaine Jackson Rips Quincy Jones For Scrubbing Michael's Name From Show | Jermaine Jackson is slamming Quincy Jones for removing Michael Jackson references from his orchestral show in London ... Jermaine thinks Quincy's caving to outside pressure. We got Jermaine at LAX and asked him about Quincy's decision to scrub all references to the King of Pop from his upcoming concert across the pond... |
UK PM May presses on with bid to get Brexit deal through parliament: spokesman | LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is pressing on with efforts to get her Brexit deal approved by parliament, meeting Conservative colleagues and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, her spokesman said on Thursday. May, who has offered to quit in return for the support of Conservative lawma... |
Nancy Pelosi says a Clinton landslide could put the House in play. The math backs her up. | Nancy Pelosi is getting visions of reclaiming her House gavel. In an interview published by Politico on Thursday, the House minority leader said she is becoming increasingly optimistic that the Democratic Party might take back the House of Representatives in November. They’ll need to flip 30 seats controlled by the Rep... |
The government official in charge of ethics just harshly condemned Trump’s plan | The nonpartisan director of the federal Office of Government Ethics ripped into President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for his businesses in an unusually public and blisteringly critical speech Wednesday afternoon. Walter Shaub went so far as to say that Trump’s conflicts of interest put democracy at risk, break with dec... |
Mark Zuckerberg’s WSJ op-ed was a message to would-be regulators: Hands off our ad business | The threat of government regulation has been looming over Facebook like a dark storm cloud for more than a year now, and it feels like it may finally be starting to rain. Last week, we learned that the FTC is considering slapping Facebook with a reported “record-setting” fine for abusing its users’ data and privacy. Th... |
Girl Scouts Are Training the Next Generation of Female Hackers | In the past, Girl Scouts have been rewarded with badges for mastering skills like first aid, painting, and jewelry making. Now, in a partnership with security firm Palo Alto Networks, they'll be able to earn badges in cybersecurity, too. Scouts in kindergarten and first grade, known as Daisies, will be taught the basi... |
An Animated Masterpiece by the Unsung Co-Founder of Studio Ghibli | Before 2016, Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday was considered the “lost” Ghibli film. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One day, Hayao Miyazaki will die, and with him so will the renowned animation studio he co-founded, Studio Ghibli. When that day eventually arrives, countless images will play out in the minds o... |
Trump warned NATO allies U.S. would go it alone if they did not spend: sources | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told NATO allies in a closed-door meeting on Thursday that governments needed to raise spending to 2 percent of economic output by January next year or the United States would go its own way, two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters. The ultimatum was deliv... |
Paradise, California, wildfire: why the fire threat to California is only growing | PARADISE, CALIFORNIA — Brook Jenkins moved to the town of Paradise to escape a rough neighborhood in nearby Chico and raise her three children in an idyllic small town, filled with trees. Paradise isn’t next to a forest; it’s in a forest. Trees run between houses like gargantuan picket fences. “It was peaceful up there... |
Wells Fargo to pay $575 million in settlement with U.S. states | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) will pay $575 million to settle claims made by U.S. states, the latest settlement as the bank works to resolve lingering investigations and legal battles stemming from its sales-practices scandal and to remove a punitive asset cap. Two years ago, Wells Fargo agreed to pa... |
'Bendy Bone,' Today's Comic by Paige Mehrer | Check out more of Paige Mehrer's work on her Tumblr and website. |
Factbox: Investments by automakers in the U.S. and China since Trump came to power | (Reuters) - Major automakers have announced a slew of investments in the United States since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017 and exerted pressure on the industry to create more U.S. jobs. China is also attracting much investment, with companies keen to increase their share of the world’s largest car... |
Teen prisoners rioted and lit British Columbia's ‘super jail’ on fire this week | A six-hour riot that started with a fire and devolved into a rampage through a youth "super jail" in British Columbia this week has confirmed long-held fears over what would happen when the province closed down other prisons and consolidated the inmates — some from rival gangs — into one place. It was Tuesday evening w... |
Video of Deontay Wilder Squaring Off with Contender in Hotel Lobby | Deontay Wilder was still ready to swing hours after defending his belt -- getting in the middle of a hotel brawl involving heavyweight contender Dominic Breazeale ... and TMZ Sports got video of the melee. The chaos erupted in the lobby of the Westin in Birmingham, Alabama ... just across the street from the arena, whe... |
Exclusive: Britain's financial heartland unbowed as Brexit risks deepen | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s financial services industry has emerged largely unscathed so far from the build-up to Brexit, with about 2,000 roles expected to have moved or been created overseas even as the risk of a disorderly exit grows, a new Reuters survey showed. Many bankers and politicians predicted Britain’s vo... |
Nebraska Is Probably Regretting Letting Go of Football Championship Subdivision-Bound Bo Pelini Right Now | Just over two years ago, Nebraska fired head coach Bo Pelini after a 9-3 season and a season-ending win over rival Iowa, which included an impressive fourth quarter comeback. Delusional in their abilities, the Cornhuskers thought they were better than 9-3, so they fired a coach who had previously brought them to the Bi... |
On Black Friday, more U.S. shoppers chose the computer over the mall | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday kickoff of the U.S. holiday shopping season showed the increasing preference for online purchases, as more Americans opted to stay home and use their smartphones while sales and traffic at brick-and-mortar stores declined. The ongoing shift to online shopping ... |
Libya's Haftar rules out Tripoli ceasefire, dismisses U.N.-led talks: newspaper | PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar has ruled out a ceasefire in the battle for Tripoli and accused the United Nations of seeking to partition Libya, according to an interview published by French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) began an offensive in early Apr... |
Republicans totally outsmarted the mainstream media on Obamacare repeal | The long-awaited Senate health care reform bill drops Thursday, and it will be a front-page story in every newspaper in America. Over the next week, this document will be parsed to death by pundits on both sides. It will trigger countless editorials and, quite possibly, foment public protests. There’s no exaggerating i... |
Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods on Speaking Terms, Say Hello Inside Nightclub | Kylie Jenner's drama with Jordyn Woods is far enough behind them for them to say hello to each other in public -- but Tristan Thompson is STILL on their no-fly zone. Kylie, Jordyn and Tristan were all partying Friday night at Bootsy Bellows, and people inside the nightclub tell us Kylie and Jordyn spoke with each other... |
U.S. June sales a mixed bag for automakers; SUVs, trucks still strong | (Reuters) - Major automakers on Tuesday posted mixed U.S. sales results for June and the second quarter, with demand still fairly strong for SUVs and pickup trucks while passenger car sales continued a long-running decline. In the pickup truck segment, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s (FCA) (FCAU.N) (FCHA.MI) Ram outsol... |
The most revealing Republican ad of the election is an attack ad against Tim Kaine | The Republican Party characterizes itself as the party of the Constitution. But on the eve of the vice presidential debate, it decided to attack Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine for carrying out a constitutional duty. The Republican National Committee debuted a TV ad Monday that attacks Kaine for represen... |
Proud Boy John Kinsman: why defendants get makeovers for court | When John Kinsman of the Proud Boys, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, appeared in court for a hearing last week, he looked like an entirely different man. (The Proud Boys deny SPLC’s hate group designation and question the legitimacy of the organization.) During a previous court appearance, on Octob... |
This Small City is the Most Exciting Place to Party in the UK Right Now | This post appeared originally on THUMP UK.Let's try an unusual opening gambit: at the weekends, I'm a bit like Cormac McCarthy protagonist, Llewelyn Moss. He's a fictional welder and I'm a real writer, but we're both on the hunt. He's looking for antelope and I'm after the sesh. Out on our own at the dead of night, the... |
FCC probes whether Sinclair misled agency during failed Tribune deal | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shares in Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc fell by 1.6% after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission disclosed it has opened an investigation into whether the company misled the agency in its failed effort to win approval for a $3.9 billion bid to purchase Tribune Media Co. In a June 25 letter t... |
Forget Facebook, Amazon or Google. Up-and-coming top tech talent is opting for startups. | Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — the aptly named FANG companies — are coming under increased scrutiny for their total market dominance. In their respective but more frequently overlapping areas of focus, these giants have collected enough information to hold an alarming amount of global influence. Chief among tha... |
Facebook tells conservatives it may revamp its approach to Trending Topics | Facebook told a group of influential conservatives that it's considering revamping how it identifies Trending Topics in the wake of the recent controversy over alleged bias. The social network previously disclosed the websites and 1,000 media outlets it uses to corroborate reporting — a list with some notable omissions... |
Turkey's Death Metal Scene Thrives Despite Government Repression
| It's never been easy to be a metalhead in Turkey, where they're forced to exist under the ominous glare of a conservative culture and a state riddled with authoritarian tendencies. A lack of venues has plagued the country's DIY music scenes even in its biggest cities, and the few that do open their doors to metal music... |
Trash Geyser Spews Garbage In Yellowstone National Park | Geyser eruptions are known as one of the most beautiful events to occur in nature. Not anymore! On September 15, Yellowstone Park’s Ear Spring geyser erupted, belching not just rocks and scalding hot water into the air, but dozens of pieces of human trash that were cooked for decades in incredibly hot water. Nice! Th... |
Lindsay Lohan's Beach Birthday Celebration Begins Early in Greece | Lindsay Lohan's getting the party started a little early for her birthday ... hitting the beach at one of her favorite spots in Greece. The soon-to-be 31-year-old arrived in Mykonos Thursday and enjoyed a boat ride and a refreshing dip in the sea. Even though the celebration has begun, her bday's not actually until Sun... |
Exclusive: China shuns U.S. request for talks on airline website dispute over Taiwan | BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has rejected U.S. requests for talks over how U.S. airlines and their websites refer to Chinese-claimed Taiwan, according to sources, including a U.S. official, adding to tensions in a relationship already frayed by a major trade dispute. China has demanded that foreign firms, and ... |
Germany seeking EU summit decision on going carbon neutral by 2050-official | BERLIN, June 19 (Reuters) - Germany is aiming to get European Union leaders to agree to make the bloc carbon neutral by 2050 at this week’s summit, a government official said on Wednesday. Divisions remain among the bloc’s 28 governments over the long-term net-zero emissions target, with many concerned a steeper pace ... |
Mass protests have erupted in Poland | Thousands of Poles took to the streets in mass demonstrations Thursday, after the president signed into law a new measure tightening the nationalist ruling party’s grip on the Supreme Court. Protesters gathered in front of Warsaw’s presidential palace and in more than 20 other cities and towns, chanting “Free courts” a... |
How the Clinton campaign is making #ThatMexicanThing a thing, explained | Sen. Tim Kaine made a point during the vice presidential debate of reminding the American public of that time Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers. “He started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals,” Kaine said, listing Trump’s most controversial campaign s... |
Virgin Atlantic uniform: flight attendants no longer have to wear makeup | Virgin Atlantic is no longer requiring women flight attendants to wear makeup — and, for the first time, they’ll be offered pants as part of their default uniform. In the past, the airline’s standards for women who worked on board were fairly stringent: The airline reportedly has a style guide for flight attendants tha... |
IEA concerned about Middle East tensions, stands ready to act | DUBLIN (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency (IEA) is very concerned about the impact that tensions in the Middle East may have on global energy security and will act if there is any physical disruption to supplies, its executive director said on Monday. Oil prices rose on Monday, extending large gains last week... |
NYPD Honcho Insulted by 'Hamilton' Star Lin-Manuel Miranda Celebrating Obama's Controversial Prisoner Release | Lin-Manuel Miranda's vowing to return to "Hamilton" in honor of President Obama commuting the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera -- who was convicted for conspiracy against the U.S. government -- and some cops are outraged. Miranda said he'd be honored to play Alexander Hamilton if Rivera goes to see the play in Chicago af... |
How one woman used fashion to reclaim her Muslim American identity | Startup co-founder, fashionista, skateboarder, NASA technical engineer, and mipster. Layla Shaikley doesn’t just embody the new term, which means “Muslim hipster” — she helped coin it. “The mainstream view is so misrepresentative of so many young Muslim Americans,” she says. “They were generally represented in one way,... |
Catholic leaders in Texas name around 300 priests accused of abuse | (Reuters) - Roman Catholic leaders in Texas on Thursday identified around 300 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children. It was one of the largest groups of names disclosed by the church as it faces U.S. state and federal investigations into its handling of decades of allegations of sexual misconduct by ... |
U.S. lawmakers ask for disclosure of number of Americans under surveillance | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee on Friday asked the Trump administration to disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose digital communications are incidentally collected under foreign surveillance programs, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Such an estimate is “crucial as we contem... |
Tony Gonzalez: I Showed My Butt Like Gronk ... For A Good Cause | Gronk isn't the only future Hall of Fame tight end to bare his buns to the world ... 'cause NFL legend Tony Gonzalez says he publicly stripped down too ... but for a good cause. Gonzalez was out at Bristol Farms when we asked for his thoughts on Gronk's nude shoot in GQ ... and if he'd ever strip down and show off the ... |
U.S. Relay Team Successfully Appeals DQ After Dropped Baton, Will Race Alone Tonight for Spot in Final | Ryan Lochte hijinks aside, the weirdest thing to happen lately in the actual Olympics competition happened on the track in Rio. Now it's going to lead to a special made-for-TV run-off tonight. The U.S. women's 4x100 meter relay was disqualified from the semifinal heat this morning after Allyson Felix dropped the baton ... |
RPT-Aging Enbridge oil pipelines face setbacks over fears of Great Lakes spills | WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CALGARY, Alberta, June 9 (Reuters) - F ears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging U.S. pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future and creating fresh headaches for operator Enbridge Inc and the Canadian energy sector. Canada has faced years of delay in getting new oil pip... |
WPP in exclusive talks to sell Kantar stake to Bain Capital | (Reuters) - WPP (WPP.L) is in exclusive talks to sell a majority stake in its data analytics unit Kantar to private equity firm Bain Capital, it said on Monday, in a $4 billion deal aimed at steering the world’s biggest advertising company back to growth. The news puts an end to months of speculation around the heavi... |
Trump keeping options open as Republican feud rages | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Like the deal-maker he says he is, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be keeping his options open as his Republican Party threatens to erupt into full-scale war. On Monday, almost immediately after saying he empathized with the effort by his former strategist Steve Bannon to back challenges... |
Marcel Broodthaers's Fraught Relationship with Words | Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Do words limit our experience of a given artwork? Gustave Flaubert believed that, “Explaining one artistic form by means of another is a monstrosity.” Art critic John Berger wrote: “When words are applied to visual art, both lose precision.” And what if the words are in the ar... |
Hungary has no evidence of Huawei threat, plans rapid 5G rollout: minister | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has no evidence that equipment from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei poses a security threat, a government minister said on Thursday, adding that Budapest was mulling incentives to accelerate the rollout of a high-speed 5G network. The United States and some of its Western allies believe Huaw... |
How love and marriage are changing, according to 63,000 New York Times wedding announcements | The New York Times weddings section is renowned for its obsession with status, providing a window into what the world’s most self-important people deem to be important. Sex and the City references the section repeatedly, and many publications have taken to scrutinizing couples’ credentials over the years. In 2013, I bu... |
'The Dark Tower' movie review: It has no heart, slaughters Stephen King books | There's a creed The Gunslinger lives by in "The Dark Tower," and it ends with: "You do not kill with your gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. You kill with your heart." Director Nikolaj Arcel and everyone at Sony should have thought about that meaning more when adapting Stephen King's e... |
The Best Christmas Music Knows This Is a Sad Time of Year | Open Thread is a daily feature where Waypoint staff talk about games and other things we find interesting. This is where you'll see us chat about movies, TV, and even sports, and welcome you to participate in the discussion. I love Christmas music. I know, a lot of it is grating and it’s been effectively weaponized by ... |
Finally, Someone Is Teaching Old People How to Fuck Good | Porn star Nina Hartley faces the camera, her blond hair swept back in a ponytail, red-framed glasses perched on her nose. She's dressed like a gym teacher in white pants and a red track jacket zipped low enough to suggest she isn't wearing much underneath. She's standing in locker room, surrounded by senior citizens a... |
Fortnite meteors are falling: Here's what it means | Meteors have been seen falling in Fortnite: Battle Royale as the game wraps up season three and players await the beginning of season four.The celestial phenomenon has caused players to speculate what the meteors could mean for the future of Fortnite and the game map.Some Fortnite theorists have suggested the meteor mi... |
In Turkey, Music Takes You Where a Travel Visa Can't | A version of this article originally appeared on Noisey Germany. In Turkey, journalists at magazines critical of the government, like Cumhuriyet, are currently being thrown in prison. Authors are under constant surveillance, and since 2017 the number of academics who've been fired from their jobs in the public sector ... |
It's 2018, and these white supremacists are running for office | Voters in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, and Montana will be heading to the polls this summer and fall to make what should be an easy decision: neo-Nazi or not? The candidates, all Republicans, are running various races in those four states — three for Congress and one for a state Legislature position. But they have... |
Polish driving test candidate runs over and kills examiner | WARSAW (Reuters) - An examiner was run over and killed by a 68-year-old woman taking her driving test in the southern Polish city of Rybnik on Monday, police said. The 35-year-old examiner was run over by the candidate at an examination center during the part of the test focusing on maneuvers, Rybnik police said in a ... |
The Only Known Film Footage of Marcel Proust, or Proust Descending a Staircase | In the first footage discovered showing Marcel Proust, he speedily descends a staircase at a wedding. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a recently discovered video showing Marcel Proust at a wedding, he descends a staircase unaccompanied, speedily walking past the slower couples to his right. It is the fir... |
Time for some digital spring cleaning: How to organize your tech life | Summer’s almost here — but before you start Instagramming up the barbecue, wouldn’t it be nice to declutter all the technology in your life? It can be hard to know where to start. Luckily, there’s the newest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, in which Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode tell you everything you need to know a... |
Yung Lean Gives Us an Early Christmas Gift in the Form of His 'Frost God' EP | Yung Lean has somehow managed to remain relevant in hip-hop by doubling down on his nostalgia-based cloud rap sound until no one else is pursuing it but him. This year's Warlord album was the first sign, and now the abruptly released Frost God EP confirms that the king Sadboy still has a place in the world, if his appe... |
Peter Thiel vs. the FDA | Since the election of Donald Trump, there’s been a lot of discussion in medical circles about bringing a Silicon Valley ethos to drug innovation in America. This idea is embodied in Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal, who has reportedly been helping the president vet a pool of candidates to lead the Food an... |
Michael Bloomberg Is Seriously Considering a Presidential Run | Michael Bloomberg is eyeing a third-party run for president this fall, calling the election season so far an "insult to voters" and saying the public deserves "a lot better," according to a Financial Times report. At the end of January, the 73-year-old former New York City mayor and gun control advocate reportedly told... |
No breakthrough with Russia on INF treaty dispute: NATO's Stoltenberg | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO and Russia did not make significant progress on saving the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance headquarters on Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Barring a last-minute decision by Russia to destroy a new medium-range missile that NATO say... |
Aaron Hernandez's Gay Letter Is a False Rumor, Attorney Insists | Letters were found inside Aaron Hernandez's cell when his body was found, but none of them were written to a gay lover. Hernandez's lawyer, Jose Baez, tells TMZ Sports, "Rumors of letters to a gay lover, in or out of prison, are false. These are malicious leaks used to tarnish somebody who is dead." The D.A. announced ... |
Explore Digital Storytelling at SVA with the MFA Visual Narrative's Upcoming Exhibition | During their first spring semester, students create an original digital short story as both author and artist. The results are on display at the annual show Digital Short Story: Small Bytes / Big Fiction, at SVA’s Flatiron Gallery. Founded in 2013, the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts places e... |
Harvey Weinstein Prosecutors Eyeing Obscure Law in Investigation | Harvey Weinstein is now in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors who are looking to possibly prosecute him under a law that some legal experts say is a giant stretch. Law enforcement sources tell us, the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York is looking to see if Weinstein violated the Mann Act. It now proh... |
LiAngelo & LaMelo Get Blessing from Lithuanian NBA Star, 'It's a Perfect Fit' | If anyone can tell us what it's gonna be like for LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball to play in Lithuania, it's NBA big man Jonas Valanciunas ... who's actually PLAYED in the league where the Balls are headed. Valanciunas -- the 5th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft -- is a Lithuanian legend ... he won the LKL Lithuanian league... |
Jaleel White: Nike Screwed Up Big Time 'Stefaning' Steph Curry | Jaleel White thinks Nike just blew it with Steph Curry ... saying mispronouncing the MVP's name -- calling him someone from White's hit show "Family Matters"-- was a $14 BILLION MISTAKE. We got White leaving Craig's in L.A. and asked him about the reports that Curry soured on the honchos at the swoosh when a Nike rep c... |
MaliVai Washington on Men's Tennis Today and His Historic Wimbledon Run 20 Years Ago | Welcome to VICE Sports Q&A, where we talk to authors, directors, and other interesting people about interesting sports things. Think of it as a podcast, only with words on a screen instead of noises in your earbuds. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length. From 1992 to 1997, MaliVai Washington was... |
Jeremy Renner Settles Latest Legal Battle with Ex-Wife | Jeremy Renner has settled yet another squabble with his ex-wife ... this time over child support. Jeremy and Sonni Pacheco have been at war since she filed for divorce in December 2014 after being married for only 10 months. The latest beef -- Sonni claimed Jeremy was behind in support payments for 3-year-old Ava. They... |
The Second Coming of Betty Tompkins | Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Sweetie. Pushy Broad. Sheela Na Gig. Queen. Sapphic Poon Hustler. These are just a few of the thousand or so terms used to describe women featured in Betty Tompkins’s sprawling painting installation, WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories, on view at Gavlak Gallery in... |
NFL playoffs: How to live stream the championship games today | There are two NFL games left before the Super Bowl: The New England Patriots play the Jacksonville Jaguars today at 3:05 pm ET, on CBS, and then the Philadelphia Eagles play the Minnesota Vikings at 6:40 pm, on Fox. It’s easy to watch the games: Turn on your TV and there they are. You don’t even need a pay TV subscript... |
Iran rejects U.S. warning against space launches, ballistic missiles | DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif rejected a U.S. warning against carrying out space vehicle launches and missile tests, saying on Thursday they did not violate a U.N. resolution. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran earlier on Thursday against pursuing... |
Philippines' Globe Telecoms launches 5G service backed by Huawei equipment | MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines’ Globe Telecom Inc on Thursday launched Southeast Asia’s first 5G broadband service, with embattled Huawei Technologies Co Ltd providing the equipment, a win for the Chinese firm despite cybersecurity worries from Western nations. The telecoms firm aims to offer high-speed internet to te... |
Oil-Rich Oklahoma Has Been Hit by Nearly Three Dozen Earthquakes Since Wednesday | Nearly three dozen small to mid-sized earthquakes have rocked northern Oklahoma towns since Wednesday, rattling windows and nerves in a region where scientists have linked seismic activity to oil wells. The quakes included a magnitude 4.4 and a magnitude 4.8 that struck about two miles apart and within a minute of each... |
Trump tells anti-abortion marchers he will support them | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump spoke in a prerecorded video to thousands of anti-abortion activists in Washington on Friday for the 46th March for Life, vowing to veto any legislation that “weakens the protection of human life.” The event is the largest annual gathering in the United States of oppo... |
Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise | LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite promising a decade ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the world’s leading economies more than doubled subsidies to coal-fired power plants over three years, putting climate goals at risk, energy researchers said Tuesday. Between 2014 and 2017, G20 governments more tha... |
Adam Rippon Says Aly Raisman Is Changing Dangerous Sports Culture | Aly Raisman and her Team USA teammates are heroically disrupting a dangerous belief system that athletes must blindly trust their coaches and doctors -- so says fellow Olympian Adam Rippon. The Team USA figure skating star says he's so proud of Aly, Simone Biles and others for refusing to be victims -- and instead, uni... |
Why Jews Are Getting Themselves Arrested at ICE Centers Around the Country | While most Americans were preparing for a long July 4th weekend, Aaron Regunberg, a policy adviser to Rhode Island Mayor Jorge Elorza, was getting arrested outside an ICE detention center in Providence. That was by design. Leading liberal politicians like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been slammed for co... |
The Sushi Chef: Shinichi Inoue | Shinichi Inoue trained in Japan as a sushi chef for 20 years before he came to New York and landed in Harlem, where he opened his restaurant, Sushi Inoue. Chef Inoue has dedicated his entire life to the art of sushi and puts his all into each and every piece he serves his customers. Season 2 Episode 8 of The Sushi Chef... |
Why Obama is vetting Nevada's Republican governor for the Supreme Court | Brian Sandoval, the moderate Republican governor of Nevada who also happens to have been a federal judge before becoming governor, has been floated by both of his home state's senators as a possible compromise Supreme Court appointment. The White House is apparently taking the idea seriously enough to have commenced so... |
Exclusive: Trump considering fracking mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary - sources | CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to four sources close to Trump’s campaign. The chief executive of Continental Resources (CLR.N) would be the first... |
Photos: These are the Rohingya children who escaped Myanmar’s "ethnic cleansing" | COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — “My mother was killed after the military set my home and village on fire,” 8-year-old Yasmin Noor said. She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children who escaped a vicious military campaign by Myanmar’s armed forces in late August that saw houses burned to the ground and widespr... |
A Radiologist's X-Ray Photographs of Flowers from the 1930s | When we think of X-rays, we generally think of the human body’s skeletal structure, but in the 1930s, one osteopathist turned his attention to the anatomy of plants and used his X-ray machine as what it fundamentally exists as: a camera. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When we think of X-rays, we generally t... |
Switzerland's SoftwareONE mandates banks for IPO - sources | ZURICH, June 26 (Reuters) - Swiss software group SoftwareONE has mandated banks for an upcoming stock market flotation, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, paving the way for a potential multi-billion dollar listing this autumn. Credit Suisse, UBS and JPMorgan have been hired to advise on the planned initial public off... |
Where the software industry is growing outside Silicon Valley | Software companies are contributing an outsized share of growth to the U.S. economy — and not just in Silicon Valley. The software industry represented just 3 percent of gross domestic product in 2016 but 7 percent of GDP growth from 2014 to 2016, according to U.S. government data compiled by Software.org: the BSA Foun... |
Will Smith Secretly Watches 'Aladdin' at Calabasas Movie Theater | Will Smith is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, which makes it a little problematic when he wants to sneak into a theater to see his latest flick ... but he figured out a way. Will slinked into a Calabasas theater just after the joint went dark for a showing of "Aladdin." Jada Pinkett Smith, Jaden and Willow... |
TMZ Live Cardi B & Bernie Sanders Join Forces Over Social Security! | HERE'S THE RUNDOWNTristan Thompson Leaves Khloe In ClevelandPrince: Death Scene Video ReleasedKim & Kanye: Rare PDA!Meek Mill: Outraged Over Prison Release Delay |
More than 50 people have faced consequences after sexual misconduct allegations. But not Trump. | Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the company he co-founded. Matt Lauer is gone from NBC. Mario Batali has stepped away from his restaurants. What was striking about putting together a list of people who have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct in recent months was not necessarily the prevalence of the proble... |
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