On a May evening back in 1950, Evelyn Trent had just finished feeding her rabbits when, she claims, she looked up and saw a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object hovering above her farm. Though some dismissed it as a hoax, her account was added to a growing list of unexplained events that sparked America’s first UFO…
Every four years, we get to choose our own president. But every two years, we have other elections, where we choose all 435 members of the House of Representatives, and a third of our Senators, and a whole lot of governors. This is a midterm elections year, our chance to steer the direction of the…
Tens of thousands marched in Tel Aviv last night demanding Benjamin Netanyahu’s government answer for the failures that led to the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks. “We cannot be a dictatorship!” said one woman. “And we cannot have these criminals running our country.” Tuesday will be the first parliamentary elections since the attacks. Thirty-nine parties…
New York’s Metropolitan Opera House seemed a fitting setting to chat with the Spanish pop artist Rosalía after the global tour for her latest album, “Lux” (which is Latin for light). “I really like how concentrated the energy is in spaces like this,” she said. This superstar knows about energy and performing. Her song “Berghain,”…
There he was, in February 2017, on the cover of Time Magazine: Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist. They called him “The Great Manipulator.” He threatened at times to overshadow the president himself – not the best career move – and for a while he visibly fell out of favor. Steven Bannon, dubbed “The Great…
Last February, a Tomahawk cruise missile struck an Iranian elementary school, killing more than 150 people, most of them children. President Trump initially suggested that it could have been somebody else’s Tomahawk: “Whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk – a Tomahawk is very generic, it’s sold to other countries, but…
Singer-songwriter Raye’s smash hit “Where Is My Husband!” has sold 1.2 million copies in the U.K. “That’s cool, isn’t it?” she said. Asked why she felt the song has resonated to such a degree, she replied, “The bit that connected first was that funny, tongue-twistery bridge”: I would like a ring, I would like a…
When Meta agreed last month to pay states $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to address claims that its platforms are addictive, attorney Jennifer Hoekstra already had her eyes set on the next frontier in the consumer backlash to Big Tech — sports betting. Hoekstra, a Florida attorney whose firm was involved in…
This report is published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Giving birth to her fourth child in January of 2021 was life-changing, says Nicole Hamann, but not in the way she ever imagined. While still at the hospital, Hamann was informed that both she and…
Rolling Stone writer Barry Walters, whose new book, “Mighty Real,” is a history of LGBTQ music, explains what a difference a word can make: Viking When I hear love songs sung by straight men, I mentally switch the gender of their nouns so I can relate to what they’re singing about. This is what gay…
