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Months after she played a snippet of the song at her Red Bull Music Academy talk — and eight years since the release of her last studio album — pop savant Robyn has finally dropped “Honey,” the title track of her forthcoming album, due Oct. 26 on Konichiwa, her own label, via Interscope. She released…
Photo: Jonathan Leibson (Getty) Last week, BuzzFeed shuttered most of its podcasts, which included See Something Say Something, The News, and Reporting to You. In a memo to staff written after the company learned of a forthcoming Wall Street Journal article about the decision, BuzzFeed’s VP of news, Shani O. Hilton, said that podcasts would…
UNITED NATIONS — Declaring that the United States will “never apologize for protecting its citizens,” President Trump delivered a defiant defense Tuesday of a transactional worldview that is increasingly at odds with consensus-driven international bodies such as the United Nations. He used an address to the U.N. General Assembly to warn that his administration will…
A third woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, alleging that Kavanaugh was “present” during her gang rape in high school. In a sworn declaration delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Julie Swetnick alleged Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge as teenagers acted to “cause girls to become…
On Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years, he was focused on sports, academics and “service projects.” But it was his comments about drinking that rankled some Yale University classmates, prompting them to speak out for the first time. Liz Swisher, who described…
Erin Schaff/New York Times The Senate Judiciary panel will hear further testimony on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court on Thursday. By Annie Linskey and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff September 26, 2018 leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 35 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true WASHINGTON —…
In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, Facebook became the world’s de facto morning newspaper—and everyone wanted to land on A1. With more and more people getting their news on the app and in the news feed, media companies competed in the company’s algorithmic sweepstakes, crafting headlines and story ideas to induce…
Katey Walter Anthony has studied some 300 lakes across the tundras of the Arctic. But sitting on the mucky shore of her latest discovery, the Arctic expert said she’d never seen a lake like this one. Set against the austere peaks of the Western Brooks Range, the lake, about 20 football fields in size, looked as…
In the blink of a digital era, The Washington Post’s Arc publishing platform has sprinted from an experiment to a full-on strategic business. Arc is now used by more than 30 clients operating more than 100 sites on four continents. It’s not the industry standard, but it’s not too early to call it an industry…
The “gig economy” has been hailed as a major disruption to the American workforce, as sites like Uber, Airbnb and Etsy offer workers new ways to make money and work a flexible schedule. But a new report offers a stark reminder that it’s not likely to replace the full-time job anytime soon. In a report released Monday, the JPMorgan…