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The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in…
For a few glorious weeks this summer, Fox News seemed as if it had emerged from a retrograde stupor defined, in part, by “leg cams,” the cinematic technique predicated on shooting broadcasters at thigh level, in favor of a period of enlightenment. After former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the…
Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson star in Fox’s “Empire.”View Full Caption Fox CHICAGO — Teens and children at a Chicago juvenile detention center were confined to their rooms and banned from family visits for days so “Empire” could film at the facility, according to a new class-action lawsuit. The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center…
share tweet pin email During last year’s trial in which graduating senior Owen Labrie was charged with sexually assaulting a younger student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School, his accuser was shielded in anonymity by law. Chessy Prout, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, has now decided to publicly reveal…
On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders debuted his post-primary plans for stoking the earnest embers of his movement. They start with a new nonprofit called Our Revolution, which has endorsed many baby Bernie candidates across the country and hopes to make sure the platform he fought for remains at the heart of the Democratic Party after…
If you use popular Korean sheet masks, there’s a fair chance that the sheet itself was folded by a human, not a machine. Photos and a video show workers folding masks at home on household furniture such as a coffee table with their bare hands. One set of photos from June 8th of this year appears…
One reason we might care about women in government is if we think they will govern differently — if we think different laws will get passed or certain topics discussed at greater length. There is research that shows this to be true: One paper from Swers at Georgetown found that female legislators consistently co-sponsor more…
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN The European Commission ordered Apple Inc to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) on Tuesday as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. Apple and Dublin said the U.S. company’s tax treatment was in line with Irish and European Union law and they would…
We’re not sure the world needs another take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories—what with the Guy Ritchie movies, the BBC show, and the CBS show—but sometimes a movie studio just has to jump on a great idea when it gets the chance. That’s what Sony is apparently doing now, because according to…
Ian Berry/Magnum PhotosNigel Farage canvassing for ‘Leave’ votes during the Brexit campaign, London, May 2016. He resigned as leader of the UK Independence Party on July 4, shortly after the referendum. Back in the old neighborhood in North West London after a long absence, I went past the local primary school and noticed a change….