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Feminist writer Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey will write a Marvel comic series set in the same world as Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther series, The New York Times reports. Reportedly coming this November, the series will be called World of Wakanda, and it will go deeper into the stories of the women of the Black…
Messages sent to Mr. Ailes’s lawyers seeking comment were not returned. Female staff members told of problems with other supervisors as well. One current employee said that she was with a male supervisor in a closed-door, one-on-one meeting in 2009 when she asked to work on an assignment. He turned to her and said, “Sure,”…
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched,…
If this is what it means to “Make America Great Again,” then Donald Trump and I have a very different definition of the word “great.” Watch Full Frontal with… GÖP-erdämmerung | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube. Source: GÖP-erdämmerung | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Pokémon Go may have more people than usual staring down at their smartphone screens, but don’t let that fool you: One of the most fascinating aspects of the Pokémon Go phenomenon has been the way it’s made people more aware than usual of their surroundings because the gyms and pokéstops that make up the augmented…
Height – 3646 | Width – 5353 Photo: Buck Ennis MARCHING ON: A Chinese family begins a funeral procession from Wan Shou Funeral Home. Brooklyn’s burial businesses have needed to adapt to the burial rites of new populations—or die. After 40 years of working in Williamsburg, Keith Senko thought he’d heard and seen it…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is holding an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit the night that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are set to speak at the Democratic National Convention. The AMA, which was announced this morning, will be held on July 27th at 7PM ET on Trump subreddit r/The_Donald. Reddit has…
Amtrak is launching its first national magazine in October. The National, a bi-monthly print magazine and digital portal, will be produced by the London-based publisher Ink. The new magazine will be available on up to 300 daily trains across the US. The National will be based out of Ink’s New York office, with Anna Szpunar…
Yahoo’s $1 billion Alibaba bet was the greatest in tech history. It was also Yahoo’s undoing. How Jerry Yang Killed Yahoo, By Saving It – Forbes. Source: How Jerry Yang Killed Yahoo, By Saving It – Forbes
A federal district judge in Phoenix threw out a lawsuit on Monday that accused ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting of defaming a government contractor who helped a Chinese national gain access to a counterterrorism center. The lawsuit stemmed from an August 2014 story published by the two nonprofit newsrooms that revealed an apparent…