This week in publishing we have new works from a number of seasoned veterans with a taste for big swings and clever premises. Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online; that hell can be rather academic, really; and even that the rules of …
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Tens of thousands of pets — if not hundreds of thousands — were left in places like New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because disaster response agencies told people to leave pets behind. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris Hondros/Getty Images Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a …
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Camps are set on a muddy desert plain on September 2, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Julie Jammot/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Julie Jammot/Getty Images People descending on the Nevada desert for this year’s Burning Man event are being met with dust and wind, …
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Residents walk through a partially shuttered Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP Residents walk through a partially shuttered Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Ng Han Guan/AP Shares in China Evergrande were removed from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, marking another step …
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Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC has launched investigations into NBC and ABC News. John McDonnell/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption John McDonnell/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The nation’s chief broadcast regulator is, once more, at the center of President Trump’s culture war after the president launched a social media barrage Sunday night against ABC and NBC. …
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Virginia Giuffre, seen here on Aug. 27, 2019, emerged as a key accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, saying he orchestrated years of sexual abuse of her and other girls and young women. Giuffre died earlier this year; her publisher says her memoir will come out in October. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption toggle caption Bebeto Matthews/AP Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a driving …
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A choreographer and former dancer with The Washington Ballet, Stephen Nakagawa, has been named the new head of the Kennedy Center’s dance programming, days after the entire staff of the renowned performing arts institution’s dance department was fired. In a press statement sent to NPR on Monday, the president of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell, said: “Stephen is a celebrated …
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President Trump speaks to the press before signing executive orders at the White House on Monday, as Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem look on. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Trump said Monday that the U.S. military is …
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The logo for Keurig Dr. Pepper appears in July 2018 above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK — Less than a decade after their merger, Keurig and Dr Pepper plan to become separate companies again. Keurig Dr Pepper said Monday it is buying the …
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New World screwworm larva, like the one pictured, will hatch and feed on the flesh of living animals, typically cattle. Cases in humans are rare but can be fatal. AP/USDA Agricultural Research Service hide caption toggle caption AP/USDA Agricultural Research Service The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep …
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