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101 | There are more than 80, 000 educational apps in Apple’s app store. It seems like a great way to encourage brain development and make your little one the smartest baby genius. But just sticking a tablet in your kid’s hands might not be as helpful. Sure, use the app. But it’s not a babysitter — you’ve got to help them... |
102 | To what lengths would you go to stifle the thunderous snorts and growls of a spouse or roommate, just so you can get a good night’s sleep? Dozens of devices crowd the market, ranging from slightly absurd to moderately torturous. ”Some of them are more medieval than others,” says Dr. Kim Hutchison, associate profess... |
103 | Even though most of the protesters fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota have left, hundreds still remain here atop what is essentially a sheet of ice. One group of campers say there’s a change taking hold at camp, which was once overrun by thousands who felt a sense of excitement about the gathering. Byr... |
104 | Donald Trump has selected former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to be director of national intelligence, according to a statement from Donald Trump’s transition team. In choosing Coats, he is getting a veteran Washington establishment figure — a senator, former lobbyist and ambassador to Germany — with a rare distinc... |
105 | Updated at 2:15 p. m. ET, Intelligence agency leaders repeated their determination Thursday that only ”the senior most officials” in Russia could have authorized recent hacks into Democratic National Committee and Clinton officials’ emails during the presidential election. Director of National Intelligence James Clappe... |
106 | The Republican Party has embraced Donald Trump’s positions on immigration, trade, the deficit and conflicts of interest, but when it comes to Russia, Trump and his party are not even close to being on the same page. Trump has repeatedly and consistently expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin and has refused to accep... |
107 | For a revolutionary, Deepali Vishwakarma is more quiet and reflective than you might expect. She’s in her 30s, small, with a round face that holds intense brown eyes and a shy grin. Vishwakarma is a lay counselor in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India — a community member who goes out daily to fight what novelist W... |
108 | Donald Trump sat for a deposition on Thursday in a civil lawsuit related to his hotel in the Old Post Office building in Washington, D. C. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed to NPR via email. Even as Trump prepares to assume the presidency, he continues to have entanglements related to his business dealings. A ... |
109 | Donald Trump has suggested he may give his daughter and some roles in his new administration, but a 1967 law makes doing so a lot more complicated. The law bars presidents from hiring relatives to Cabinet or agency jobs, although a federal judge has ruled that it doesn’t apply to White House staff jobs. Ivanka T... |
110 | Just before dawn Thursday, at Tokyo’s historic Tsukiji market, a familiar face walked away with the biggest fish in town. Kiyoshi Kimura won the first auction of the year at the market, just as he has for six years running. And to the winner go the spoils: a Pacific bluefin tuna, which ultimately cost Kimura 74. 2 mi... |
111 | Last year, NPR’s Ari Shapiro visited Toledo, Ohio, to talk to refugees settling there from Syria’s civil war. Recently, he returned to Toledo to check in on the community. Mohammed Al Refaai is a butcher who fled Syria. He lives in Toledo, Ohio, with three other guys, who are also in their 20s, who decided they woul... |
112 | Unexplained, short radio bursts from outer space have puzzled scientists since they were first detected nearly a decade ago. The elusive flashes — known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs — are extremely powerful and last only a few milliseconds. The way their frequencies are dispersed suggests they traveled from far ... |
113 | There’s a new narrative solidifying in Washington: Donald Trump distrusts the U. S. intelligence community because it’s been sounding the alarm on Russia’s interference in the November election. In turn, this feeds a growing sense of dread among U. S. intelligence professionals that the and his inner circle will ig... |
114 | Donald Trump continues to dispute the consensus of U. S. intelligence agencies that Russia used computer hacking to interfere in the 2016 elections. He does so even though other Republican leaders and analysts perceive a serious cyberattack that demands retaliation. If he persists in this posture, Trump may wish to r... |
115 | The halls of the Kiambu County Hospital just outside Nairobi are empty. This is normally a bustling place but on Thursday entire wings are closed. Only in the emergency room are there a scattering of patients. Moms with babies sit languidly on metal chairs. Men with broken bones and some with serious injuries are just ... |
116 | The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, in Mexico. Today, the species is critically endangered, with less than 60 animals left in the wild, thanks to fishing nets to catch fish and shrimp for sale in Mexico and America. The animal is an accidental victim of the fishing industry, a... |
117 | Citing local regulations, Apple has removed The New York Times news app from its app store in China. The incident is the latest in the long history of media restrictions in the country, but also in the ongoing pattern of tech companies getting involved in the efforts. The New York Times reports that Apple removed both ... |
118 | A comparison of kid brains and grownup brains may explain why our ability to recognize faces keeps getting better until about age 30. Brain scans of 25 adults and 22 children showed that an area devoted to facial recognition keeps growing long after adolescence, researchers report in the journal Science. The area didn’... |
119 | Director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is an unapologetic musical that hearkens back to Hollywood’s glory days of song and dance. The passion and grandeur of the musical numbers might make you believe that Chazelle had always imagined himself working in the genre, but he tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that’s not the case... |
120 | After multiple recent studies showing that feeding foods to infants can reduce the risk of peanut allergies, there are new federal guidelines for parents about when to start feeding their infants such foods. The National Institutes of Health announced Thursday that a panel of allergy experts recommends that parents i... |
121 | As President Obama’s tenure in the White House draws to a close, he’s looking back on eight years of work — and ahead toward what he sees as a brighter future for the U. S. In a letter to the American public, Obama says he’s proud that the country is ”stronger and more prosperous” than it was eight years ago — an... |
122 | On a cold night in January nine years ago, Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses. That first big step on the young senator’s unlikely path to the White House was fueled by an army of campaign volunteers, which Obama later called one of his proudest legacies. ”That’s what America needs right now,” Obama told campaign worke... |
123 | Updated at 4:15 p. m. ET, Four people have been charged with hate crimes for allegedly carrying out an assault, online, in which a man was tied up, hit and cut with a knife by several assailants. Authorities say the victim, who had been reported missing before the attack, has ”mental health challenges.” He was encoun... |
124 | Fans are so geeked about Showtime’s coming revival of Twin Peaks that they turned a promotional video into a viral hit. David Lynch appears in a black suit and tie (seemingly reprising his role as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole) wordlessly consuming a glazed doughnut while the show’s distinctive, mournful th... |
125 | Dorlyn Catron’s cane is making its radio debut today — its name is Pete. (”He’s important to my life. He ought to have a name,” she says.) Catron is participating in one of the America InSight tours at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. The museum offers tours, led by specially trained docen... |
126 | It’s Monday, 8 a. m. and these teens have already mucked stalls in the barn and fed the goats, alpacas and miniature cows. They’ve rounded up eggs in the henhouse, harvested cabbages and a few tomatoes, and arranged them in tidy tiers to sell in the Agriculture Store. Now they’re ready to put in a full day of classes... |
127 | The Shins are back with the group’s first new album since 2012’s Port Of Morrow. Heartworms is set to drop on March 10 on Aural Records. In making the announcement today, the band shared the joyfully infectious pop cut ”Name For You” and a lyric video. Frontman James Mercer produced Heartworms on his own, a first sin... |
128 | Note: NPR’s First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Natalie Hemby’s debut album starts out very country, risking corniness from the . Southern gospel harmonies float over a beat as Hemby, one of Nashv... |
129 | Ford Motor Co. ’s decision this week to cancel construction of an auto plant in Mexico has shocked that country, causing the peso to slump and stirring up outrage toward Donald Trump. Anger is high toward the incoming U. S. president in the state where the Ford plant was under construction — and was slated to empl... |
130 | When Donald Trump takes to Twitter, some companies shudder. This week, Ford Motor Co. said it would scrap a $1. 6 billion plant in Mexico in favor of expanding an existing one in Michigan. That happened on the same day the tweeted criticism of General Motors for manufacturing its Chevy Cruze vehicles in Mexico. GM sa... |
131 | Wyoming has become a flash point in the debate over whether hundreds of millions of acres of federal public lands should be turned over to state hands. From Buzz Hettick’s place on the edge of the windswept college town of Laramie, it’s a short drive into the heart of these remote lands, vast tracts run by the federal ... |
132 | ”Free” is a word with a powerful appeal. And in the past year or so it has been tossed around a lot, followed by another word: ”college.” Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time talking about free tuition. And this week, the promise has been taken up by one of the largest public university systems i... |
133 | Updated 5:30 p. m. ET, The intelligence report on Russia’s interference in the U. S. elections concludes that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an ”influence campaign” that aimed to help Donald Trump. ”Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Cl... |
134 | Updated at 3:31 p. m. ET after briefing, After casting doubt on the legitimacy of U. S. intelligence (even referring to it as ”intelligence”) Donald Trump was briefed Friday by the nation’s top intelligence officials on their investigation into Russia’s hacking attempts and interference in the U. S. presidential elec... |
135 | Updated at 8:00 p. m. ET Saturday, The U. S. Attorney has charged Esteban Santiago, the man in custody for carrying out the deadly shooting at Fort International Airport in Florida on Friday afternoon. At least five people were killed and six others were injured in the shooting, according to the Broward County Sherif... |
136 | North Korea got 2017 off to a menacing start. In his New Year’s address, supreme leader Kim Jong Un warned that the nation was in the ”final stage” of preparations to test an intercontinental ballistic missile. A day later, Donald Trump said the North would never develop a nuclear weapon capable of striking the U. S.... |
137 | Donald Trump is still two weeks from his presidential inauguration, but new Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer sounds ready to do battle with a Senate, House and White House. ”We’re going to hold Donald Trump’s feet to the fire,” the New York Democrat told NPR’s Audie Cornish on All Things Considered while sittin... |
138 | Bernie Sanders thinks he has a pretty good idea why Hillary Clinton and Democrats lost in the 2016 election. ”Look, you can’t simply go around to wealthy people’s homes raising money and expect to win elections,” the Vermont senator, who gave Clinton a surprisingly strong run for the Democratic nomination, told NPR’s D... |
139 | Right now, a big chunk of Antarctic ice is hanging on by a frozen thread. British researchers monitoring the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf say that only about 12 miles now connect the chunk of ice to the rest of the continent. ”After a few months of steady, incremental advance since the last event, the rift grew sudd... |
140 | Michelle Obama used her last official White House speech to deliver a passionate pep talk to the nation’s young people, especially immigrants, Muslims and others who might feel slighted by the incoming Trump administration. ”Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter,” the first lady said, ”or like you ... |
141 | Counselors play a big role in helping students succeed: They help with scheduling, college applications and with issues like mental health. Since 2015, first lady Michelle Obama has honored a school counselor of the year in a ceremony at the White House. Friday, the honor goes to Terri Tchorzynski of the Calhoun Area C... |
142 | Prolific Indian actor Om Puri, who for decades appeared in films all over the world, has died at age 66 in Mumbai. Reports say Puri suffered a heart attack at his home early on Friday. Puri had roles in more than 300 movies in his career, NPR’s Rose Friedman reports for our Newscast unit. Rose says he began acting in I... |
143 | It’s a fantasy that goes back centuries: a message in a bottle, carried ashore from lands. Authors, artists and children alike have dreamed of such a gift from the sea. This time, though, it’s not a bottle that washes ashore. It’s eggs — thousands of little toy eggs. That’s what happened on the German island of La... |
144 | A Canadian doctor who is opposed to a widely used drug for morning sickness has fired another volley. Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, Dr. Navindra Persaud in the department of family and community medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, notes that an unpublished study that supported use of the drug, conducted i... |
145 | Russia’s recent cyber adventures have the hallmarks of an old Soviet specialty: disinformation. While many Americans have just awoken to the world of disinformation — sometimes known as ”fake news” — in the recent presidential election, Moscow’s efforts date back decades and have become increasingly prominent ove... |
146 | After a woman was and died of her injuries in New Delhi in December 2012, the Indian government tried to set up swift and judicious ways to report and address such crimes. Fast track courts were set up, social workers and police were given sensitization training. Women were told things would be better when they stepp... |
147 | Maintaining a relationship can be difficult, but Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith have managed to do it — and they’ve become megastars in the process. They make up the band The xx, and they’ve been making music together since they were kids. The band’s two singers, Croft and Sim, met in preschool in a... |
148 | On a bright Sunday afternoon last November, Anastasia Popova was picketing outside the Russian Embassy in Washington with a dozen other activists. ”Russia will be free! Russia will be free!” they chanted at the hulking white building on the other side of the street. The forlorn group of protesters held up signs calling... |
149 | The official Electoral College vote tally just concluded, but some Democratic House members decided to put on a bit of a show. More than half a dozen members rose at different points to object to the results of the election, citing Russian hacking, the legitimacy of the election and electors, voting machines, voter sup... |
150 | A golden statue commemorating the plight of ”comfort women” — a euphemism for the Korean women and girls forced by the Japanese to work as sex slaves in brothels during World War II — has caused a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea. At the end of December, activists placed the golden statue of a young... |
151 | Donald Trump has promised to step back from his business interests when he takes office. He says he’ll let his two adult sons take the helm and that he won’t make any new deals while he’s president. While he’s unwinding some of his roughly 500 business deals involving about 20 countries as Inauguration Day approaches... |
152 | Donald Trump is nominating Jay Clayton, a Wall Street lawyer, to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some who know him say Clayton is a good man for the job, but critics say his ties to big financial firms create too many conflicts of interest. The big question is whether Trump has chosen a fox to ... |
153 | Tilikum, possibly the most famous orca in the world, has died, according to SeaWorld Orlando. He was the subject of the influential documentary Blackfish, and outcry over his story prompted SeaWorld to stop breeding orcas in captivity. Tilikum was estimated to be 36 years old, SeaWorld said in a statement, which is old... |
154 | Officials in the West African nation of Ivory Coast say soldiers have overrun police stations and seized the country’s city, Bouake. It has been six years since the West African nation emerged from a civil war, during which Bouake was the headquarters of the rebellion. NPR’s Ofeibea said there were also reports of ... |
155 | An overwhelming majority of people disapprove of Republican lawmakers’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act without having a ready replacement for the health care law, according to a poll released Friday. And judging by the and lobbying in the first week of the new congressional session, many health care and busine... |
156 | The Justice Department is issuing new guidance to federal agents on how to secure eyewitness identifications, an initiative designed to reflect decades of scientific research and bolster public confidence in the criminal justice system, NPR has learned. The policy has two major components: It directs U. S. investigator... |
157 | In the kitchen at Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, just north of downtown Detroit, Linda Carter and Shawnetta Hudson are in the final stages of making their newest jam creation: preserves. Carter is meticulously wiping down tables while Hudson seals the lids on jars. Then comes the logo — a beautiful graphic of a black ... |
158 | Talladega College isn’t known for its football team — because it doesn’t have one. But it does have a band — the Marching Tornadoes. It is the pride of the campus in this small town about 50 miles east of Birmingham. The Presidential Inaugural Committee included Talladega’s band on its list of participants in t... |
159 | Starting next week, Norway will become the first country to switch off its nationwide FM radio network and convert completely to digital signals. The change was announced in 2015, and will take months to be fully implemented. The Norwegian government decided to make the transition in part because digital radio can prov... |
160 | When Kayla Wilson was 15, her mom — Wendy Founds — was in prison serving a term for felony drug charges. When Founds was 15 she started using drugs, and at some point became addicted to methamphetamines. ”When I asked Mom how she got started she told me that after her died she was just mad at the world and ma... |
161 | The final chapter of the Obama economy drew that much closer to its end on Friday, with the final jobs report of the 44th president’s time in office. That report showed the 75th straight month of job growth, with employers adding 156, 000 jobs. Solid, but nothing flashy. In that way, it was emblematic of how the job ma... |
162 | Updated at 5:30 p. m. The Office of Government Ethics is raising alarm over the pace of confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s nominees, saying Saturday that they have yet to receive required financial disclosures for some picks set to come before Congress next week. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Sch... |
163 | Updated at 5:52 p. m. One day after five people were killed at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. more details are coming to light on the suspected gunman: Esteban Ruiz Santiago, a U. S. military veteran. The was arrested by police shortly after the shooting began at the airport’s baggage claim area. He is now at a... |
164 | If you’ve never laid eyes on a dogfish — or tasted one — you’re not alone. Yep, it’s in the shark family. (See those telltale fins?) And fisherman Jamie Eldredge is now making a living catching dogfish off the shores of Cape Cod, Mass. When populations of cod — the Cape’s namesake fish — became too scarce, ... |
165 | House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Thursday that Republicans will — once again — vote to cut off federal tax dollars for Planned Parenthood. They are planning to include the measure as part of a bigger upcoming bill to repeal pillars of Obamacare. This isn’t the first time that they have tried to pass this type of... |
166 | Emil Girardi moved to San Francisco on New Year’s Eve in 1960. He loved everything about the city: the energy, the people and the hills. And, of course, the bars, where Girardi mixed drinks for most of his adult life. About 10 years ago, the New York native had a stroke and collapsed on the sidewalk near his Nob Hil... |
167 | Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream? Heavy questions. One researcher believes that writing down the answers can be decisive for students. He a paper that demonstrates ... |
168 | Classical composers have long had their patrons: Beethoven had Archduke Rudolph, John Cage had Betty Freeman. For contemporary opera composers, there’s Beth Morrison. She and her production company have commissioned new works from some of the most innovative emerging composers today. Morrison is not your typical moneye... |
169 | Even before Barack Obama moved into the White House, he and his team made a choice that made actually selling his policies to the public more difficult. In December 2008, Obama’s economic team gathered in Chicago to map out what would become the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ”A dispute, discussion, something ... |
170 | The end of 2016 marked a grim milestone in Chicago. More than 4, 000 people were shot over the course of the year, and 762 people were homicide victims, according to the Chicago Tribune. Those numbers are higher than the totals of New York and Los Angeles combined. To be clear, other cities, like New Orleans and Detroi... |
171 | The morning of Oct. 18, 2016, the employees at La Divina, a taqueria and Mexican grocery in Buffalo, N. Y. were prepping for the lunch crowd — making salsa, grilling chicken and stocking the shelves with Mexican Cokes and Corona beer. Suddenly, agents from Homeland Security Investigations rushed in. ”I heard someone... |
172 | Nat Hentoff, the author of dozens of books and decades of columns, has died at 91. His son Nick Hentoff confirmed his father’s death on Twitter Saturday night. Hentoff was a writer for the Village Voice for 50 years. He also wrote for many publications over his lengthy career, including The Wall Street Journal, The Was... |
173 | Availability is the best ability for Keith ”Bang Bang” McCurdy. ”I’m waiting all the time for that call, because I know Justin Bieber may call me at three in the morning and I have to tattoo him at six. That has happened,” McCurdy says. Bang Bang is considered one of the most successful tattoo artists in the industry. ... |
174 | The world of global health and development loves its buzzwords — a word or short phrase that sums up a problem or a solution, like ”food insecurity” or ”gender equity.” The problem is that buzzwords aren’t always clear to the average global citizen. And some folks in the development world don’t like them either. Her... |
175 | A week after a gunman killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub, the suspected assailant remains at large and secular Turks are feeling under attack. ISIS claimed the shooting, calling it an assault on what it called ”a pagan holiday.” The government’s pledge to defend all lifestyles hasn’t kept an atmosphere of fear f... |
176 | Dear Sugar Radio is a weekly podcast from member station WBUR. Hosts Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed offer ”radical empathy” and advice on everything from relationships and parenthood to dealing with drug problems or anxiety. Today the Sugars hear from a woman going through radical physical — and emotional — chan... |
177 | Dear Sugar Radio is a weekly podcast from member station WBUR. Hosts Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed offer ”radical empathy” and advice on everything from relationships and parenthood to dealing with drug problems or anxiety. Today the Sugars have advice for people in different situations. In the first, a woman writes ... |
178 | When I told my coworker that I was participating in a study that involved fasting, she laughed until she nearly cried. My boyfriend, ever supportive, asked hesitantly, ”Are you sure you want to try this?” Note the use of ”try” instead of ”do.” When I told my father over the phone, the line went silent for a moment. The... |
179 | By many standards, Mireille Kamariza is at the top of the world. She’s a graduate student at one of the world’s top universities, working on her Ph. D. with one of the world’s top chemists. And she’s tackling a tough problem — tuberculosis — that sickens nearly 10 million people a year. Earlier this year, Kama... |
180 | Donald Trump has named his to a top White House job. Jared Kushner will serve as a senior adviser to the president, and the transition team says he will work with incoming Chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Stephen Bannon ”to execute Trump’s agenda.” The announcement also says Kushner will not rece... |
181 | On behalf of the U. S. State Department, John Kerry has issued a formal apology for the department’s pattern of discrimination against LGBT employees during a period beginning in the 1940s and stretching for decades. Sen. Ben Cardin, . had asked the secretary of state for such an apology in late November, calling the ... |
182 | Seven years ago, the Navajo tribal council in southeastern Utah started mapping the secret sites where medicine men and women forage for healing plants and Native people source wild foods. They wanted to make a case for protecting the landscape known as Bears Ears, a place sacred not only to their tribe but to many oth... |
183 | The week before Donald Trump takes the oath of office will set the stage for his entry into the Oval Office. Not only will at least nine of his Cabinet nominees begin their Senate confirmation hearings, but the himself will face reporters at a press conference, where he may address how he plans to separate his busi... |
184 | Darlene Hawes lost her health insurance about a year after her husband died in 2012. Hawes, 55, is from Charlotte, N. C. She ended up going without insurance for a few years, but in 2015 she bought coverage on HealthCare. gov, the Affordable Care Act marketplace, with the help of a big subsidy. ”I was born with heart t... |
185 | Two law enforcement officers have been killed during a massive manhunt for a murder suspect in Orlando, Fla. Master Sgt. Debra Clayton radioed from a shortly after 7 a. m. Monday, saying she was ”attempting to contact a murder suspect,” according to a statement from the City of Orlando. Other officers radioed two min... |
186 | The details of the story are unambiguously disturbing. Last week, a white man from suburban Chicago was found walking in the cold, disoriented and bloodied. Four people, all black, had held him against his will for four hours, tied him up, and assaulted him while livestreaming part of it on Facebook. The young woman... |
187 | In Venezuela, food has become so scarce it’s now being sold on the black market. One person tells the Associated Press, ”it’s a better business than drugs.” And the food traffickers are the very people sworn to protect Venezuela: the nation’s military. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave the military complete cont... |
188 | A powerful winter storm in California has brought down an ancient tree, carved into a living tunnel more than a century ago. The ”Pioneer Cabin Tree,” a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, saw horses and cars pass through it over the years. More recently, only hikers were allowed to walk through the massive tree... |
189 | From head to toe, a first lady’s look is heavily scrutinized, and Melania Trump will be no exception. But Trump is no stranger to the spotlight: In 2005, she was on the cover of Vogue in her Dior wedding dress, and she’s modeled for Harper’s Bazaar and posed nude for GQ. She also once sold her own line of costume jewel... |
190 | A police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, has been suspended for 10 days after an inquiry into his forceful arrest of a woman and her two daughters in December. The arrest was recorded and streamed live on Facebook, as The reported at the time: ”The events unfolded in southwest Fort Worth, where Jacqueline Craig called ... |
191 | projects like the musical film La La Land and FX’s TV comedy Atlanta won big at Sunday’s Golden Globe awards. But the most powerful moment of the night belonged to Meryl Streep, who used her acceptance speech for the honorary Cecil B. deMille Award of the 2017 Golden Globes, to deliver a harsh rebuke of Donald Trum... |
192 | Sunday night’s Golden Globes were, in the great tradition of the Golden Globes, full of unexpected winners and a certain fondness for Hollywood itself. In this case, that fondness manifested itself in part through a sweep of the film awards for La La Land, which — in case you haven’t yet heard — is about dreame... |
193 | Tom Hiddleston is trending on Twitter, and not for a good reason. Last night at the Golden Globes, he won a best actor award for the AMC series The Night Manager. But his acceptance speech didn’t go over as well as his performance. Hiddleston recounted a visit he made to see medics from Doctors Without Borders in South... |
194 | Beijing is launching a new police force aimed at tackling its persistent smog problem. This comes after a month of particularly severe air quality that left the capital and dozens of other Chinese cities blanketed in thick, brown smog. The city’s acting mayor, Cai Qi, announced over the weekend that the new environment... |
195 | In Georgia, lawmakers are set to pass a more than $20 billion budget this year and grapple with a failing hospital system. But Georgia, like many other states, faces a serious human resource problem in its Legislature: Salaries are often low and many politicians can’t afford to be lawmakers. Former Georgia state Rep.... |
196 | Mothers should feel comfortable infants in public, Pope Francis said on Sunday, even if they are in one of the most sacred spaces in Catholicism. Speaking at an annual ceremony to commemorate the baptism of Jesus, the pope addressed the families of 28 infants who were to be baptized in the Sistine Chapel. Some of the... |
197 | In South Korea, preparing for the worst has become a routine part of life. Twice a year, the country runs air raid drills in case of an attack by North Korea. Citywide sirens go off at 3 p. m. in the capital, Seoul. They’re supposed to bring the bustling city to a temporary halt. ”It’s a simulation of what will happen ... |
198 | David Bowie had long wanted to make a record with a jazz band, and on Jan. 8 of last year, he realized his dream with the release of Blackstar. Two days later, he was gone. Donny McCaslin’s band helped him make that record, and now, a year later, we pay tribute to Bowie and Blackstar by bringing McCaslin’s band to the... |
199 | Chances are your doctor has stopped taking notes with pen and paper and moved to computer records. That is supposed to help coordinate your care. Increasingly, researchers are also exploring these computerized records for medical studies and gleaning facts that help individual patients get better care. Computerized med... |
200 | French police have reportedly arrested more than a dozen people during raids linked to the robbery of reality TV star Kim Kardashian West in Paris last October. During the robbery, a group of thieves burst into the private residence where Kardashian West was staying, held her at gunpoint, then escaped on bicycles wit... |
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