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The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances

Droughts in 48 of 50 U.S. states, evidence of microplastics mucking up wastewater recycling and the science of a baseball mud bath in this week’s news roundup.

Two years of experimentation taught a Nashville guitarist not every musical myth makes sense

On this day 106 years ago, the warring parties of World War I agreed to an armistice, ending more than four years of slaughter in the trenches. As Ludwig von Mises recalled, governments also slaughtered their own currencies to pay for the bloodshed.

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Black Friday is two weeks away, but shopping season is already here.

As Amazon's revenue and stock price continue to climb, the company is also pulling back. Between January and August, Amazon cut its U.S. ad spend by 20%--equivalent to $700 million--compared to the same time in 2023, according to estimates from ad intelligence platform MediaRadar. The drop from $3.4 billion to $2.7 billion comes amid other...

Three years after its premiere, Squid Game continues to pay dividends for Netflix, which has churned out a popular reality show based on the franchise, has Season 2 of the series releasing on December 26, and has created Squid Game fan experiences around the globe, including in Los Angeles and Madrid, Spain. The latest iteration...

In this episode of The Garage podcast, hosts Dan Massimino and Evan Hovorka are joined by Dan Hight, business development and partnerships executive at market intelligence firm Placer.ai, and Paul Brenner, svp of global retail media and partnerships at shopper analytics company Vibenomics. Join as they explore the transformative power of in-store retail media and...

Last month, an E. coli outbreak swept through McDonald’s restaurants in 13 states, killing one person and sickening 89 others, including 27 people who needed to be hospitalized. Within days, an investigation led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified the culprit—fresh, slivered onions often served on Quarter Pounders—and they were able to halt the outbreak.

Having lived now through four particularly stinging Democratic presidential election defeats as an adult (1980, 2000, 2016, and 2024), I can tell you two things. One: The baseline criticism in every case has been the same. Two: Democrats, being (mostly) liberals, tend to overthink and overanalyze things. Parties lose elections for a hundred reasons, and yes, it’s worth giving some thought to all of them.

The Democratic Party is once again in the wilderness. Donald Trump won not only the presidential election but the popular vote. The scale of short-term and long-term harm that is about to be unleashed on our communities, our country, and our planet is genuinely difficult to comprehend. To work our way out of this hell, it should be clear that Democrats need to chart a new path.

Noted animal mutilator and brain-worm host Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to run the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, or even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the second Trump administration. Not long after Trump’s victory, he started to lay out what the “big role” the president-elect promised him in the White House might entail: taking fluoride out of water supplies; dismantling mandatory vaccination programs; eliminating “entire departments” within the FDA. Читать дальше...

1. See 2024’s Final ‘Supermoon’ And ‘Fireballs’: The Night Sky This Week  Forbes
2. When to catch the last supermoon of the year  The Associated Press
3. AP Trending SummaryBrief at 11:20 a.m. EST  WDRB
4. AP Trending SummaryBrief at 10:23 a.m. EST  News Item
5. This Month's Supermoon Will Be the Last One Until October 2025  CNET

President-elect Donald Trump named Susie Wiles to be his White House chief of staff. She's the first woman but probably won't last longer than the

It’s hard to know what feels worse: Trump’s shocking 2016 win over Hillary Clinton or his win over Kamala Harris on Election Day.

Archaeologists say the "oracle bones" from ancient China were used in magical attempts to predict the future.

While some businesses are taking early action, others are downplaying potential tariff impacts on their bottom line.

The new NBCUniversal campus looks more like a college quad than a studio backlot thanks to a sprawling outdoor common space where employees can decompress.

The U.K. set a target that 100% of new cars sold in 2035 would be EVs. Thanks to strong sales from Mercedes and BMW, the country is currently on track to hit its ambitious goal.

Passkey adoption is up, and problems are being fixed.

It’s been a couple of years since Apple, Google, and Microsoft started trying to kill the password, and its demise seems more likely than ever.

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A challenging puzzle.

Drawings from the November 18, 2024, magazine.