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“I feel as though I have died and gone to heaven,” said Britain’s skills minister in a recent speech, as he prepares to preside over the fastest rise in the minimum wage in the country’s history. The new policy, which starts on Friday, will see the wages for low-paid workers rise four times faster than…
Two people were killed and 35 were taken to hospitals Sunday morning when an Amtrak passenger train struck a railroad backhoe that was doing maintenance work just south of Philadelphia. Authorities said the two dead were not onboard the train. They declined to say whether they were Amtrak workers engaged in work on the tracks….
I am a gamer. I followed the call of Cthulhu and ran in the shadows with hackers and shamans. I traversed the ancient lands of Greyhawk, Faerun, and Eberron with companions new and old. I swung from an airship and buckled swash over London for the Kerberos Club. I threw dice and flipped cards and…
Illustration by Jim Cooke I can’t. It flummoxes me why this flummoxes a lot of people. I guess you could call it a double flummox, like some sort of gymnastics move. If I were to imagine such a move it would involve me, my paws taped to a swinging trapeze bar, cutting myself loose at…
This is not a joke. Senator Al Franken should be the Democratic Party’s choice for vice president. If I had said that 10 years ago, or even six months ago, the notion would have been preposterous: a former Saturday Night Live writer, perhaps best known as the mock self-help guru Stuart Smalley, Franken became synonymous…
Riley Keough plays a law student who takes a job as a high-end escort in Starz’s new series based on the 2009 Steven Soderbergh film. It will be interesting to see if viewers look at Starz’s new drama series, The Girlfriend Experience, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and inspired by his 2009 film, in the…
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders visits the New York Daily News office Friday, April 1, 2016. Bernie Sanders, while not MetroCard savvy, still knows the cheapest way to board the subway. “Jump over the turnstile,” the Vermont senator joked Friday during a Q&A with the Daily News editorial board. BERNIE…
So when whites choose a traditionally black hairstyle such as dreadlocks, it adds another layer of complexity to the issue. Take the latest case in point: a viral video showing a black woman calling out a white male student at San Francisco State University for his dreadlocks. The video touched off debate over whether dreadlocks…
Matt Sayles/APPharrell is sad about his royalties.This past year was great for singer Pharrell Williams. His song “Happy” secured him Grammy nominations for Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance. Despite Pharrell’s ubiquity, “Happy” made $2,700 in publisher and songwriter royalties from 43 million Pandora streams in the first quarter of 2014, according to an email…
The International Center for Journalists, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., is hiring a manager to oversee its International Journalists’ Network (IJNet) website. IJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and citizen journalists worldwide. IJNet follows the shifting journalism scene from a…