‘The mom was screaming.’ Teen boy crossing street with sister dies in L.A. crash
Los Angeles police are looking for a driver and passenger involved in a deadly hit and run in Hyde Park...
American Black Film Festival arrives to celebrate D.C. culture scene
For 30 years, filmmakers, artists and cinephiles have gathered for the American Black Film Festival, an annual event in Miami...
McDonald’s is spending $8.5 billion on restaurant refreshes and bringing diners back
McDonald's unveiled McDonald's Next, a plan to improve its results, on Wednesday. Gene J. Puskar/APMcDonald's is planning to spend billions...
‘Come From Away’ celebrates the best of humanity. We couldn’t need it more.
“Come From Away” is, first and foremost, a journalistic feat. When Canadian writers Irene Sankoff and David Hein conducted dozens...
Seth Meyers Thinks Press Boycott of White House Events ‘Accidentally Cracked the Code’ on Covering Trump
President Donald Trump spoke at a White House ribbon cutting ceremony this week, but there was no audio from the...
‘It’s Very Simple’: 50 Years of Making Avant-Garde Music Sound Effortless
When Pierre Boulez was rehearsing contemporary music with Ensemble Intercontemporain, a group he founded, he had an unnerving habit. The...
For 130 years, we’ve been rewriting Lizzie Borden’s motive
Any self-respecting student of history or women’s studies or schoolyard chants knows that Lizzie Borden murdered her mother by giving...
New Trump comments ‘blindsided’ allies and led to flurry of panicked calls: report
Oil executives thought they’d beaten back a diesel export ban. Then President Donald Trump opened his mouth at the United...
New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix
At a fundamental level, artificial intelligence leaders, evangelists and their allies want you to believe that their novel technology demands...
This Penis-Enlargement Trend Involves Shopping Bags, Weights, and a Lot of Pain
The internet has now reached the point where men are hanging weighted shopping bags from their penises in hopes of...
