Review: Apple’s New AirPods Are Great if You Don’t Have AirPods Yet
From the Mac to the iPod to the iPhone, Apple is a master of making iconic products. Even if some of the company's gadgets aren't necessarily best-in-class, they're often the most recognizable and desirable. That tradition of technological trendsetting has continued with the AirPods, which went from ridiculous to status symbol in a matter of memes. Two years after the ...
6m Apr 01, 2019
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Billie Eilish Is 17, But Her Music Is for Grownups Too
The party had an open bar, but Billie Eilish was nowhere near the free champagne. At 17, the evening's star and musical guest was a good 10 years younger than most of the hip Manhattan crowd filling the cavernous Lower East Side gallery on a February night. The occasion? The launch of her magazine cover for Garage, created by the renowned artist Takashi Murakami. Eilish...
5m Apr 01, 2019
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How Dumbo Almost Ended Up on the Cover of TIME
Up through December 1941, almost all TIME covers had featured a close-cropped, solemn portrait of a man. That month, however, editors prepared something quite different: a cartoon elephant. Two months earlier, Disney released Dumbo in theaters, hoping to recoup their losses following the financial failures of Fantasia and Pinocchio and a contentious animators' strike. ...
2m Apr 01, 2019
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Netflix’s Cocaine Island Is the Ultimate Florida Man Doc. Is That a Good Thing?
If every society gets the El Dorado myth it deserves, then I regret to inform you that director Theo Love's Netflix documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island is probably ours. It's a story of greed, unwarranted optimism and incredibly poor judgment, all in service of a get-rich-quick scheme that would've been absurd even if it hadn't been highly illegal. And its hero is non...
3m Apr 01, 2019
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Where To Stream the Films of Agnès Varda
The filmmaker Agnès Varda, often called the “godmother of the French New Wave,” died on Friday morning at 90. Over a six-decade-plus career she made dramas and documentaries, exploring feminism, memory and mortality through fury and whimsy alike. https://twitter.com/Festival_Cannes/status/1111600795944923137 Here’s where to stream some of her most notable work. ...
4m Apr 01, 2019
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Here’s Who Could Replace Theresa May as U.K. Prime Minister if She’s Pushed Out Over Brexit
In a closed-off meeting in the U.K. Parliament with members of her ruling Conservative Party on Wednesday evening, a beleaguered Theresa May told colleagues she would step down. But like all things in British politics these days, it wasn’t that simple.
6m Mar 31, 2019
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Catherine O’Hara Finds Humor in the Gulf Between Perception and Reality
"How would you behave if your whole life was ripped out from under you?" Catherine O'Hara wants to know. I'm supposed to be asking the questions here, at the Manhattan hotel restaurant where the comedy legend is between appointments, cobbling together a late lunch of tapas (and urging me to try the stuffed peppadews). But I've just thoughtlessly referred to her character o...
7m Mar 31, 2019
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Breaking Down Every Single Marvel Post-Credits Scene
Warning: This post contains spoilers for all of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios has completely changed the way we watch movies. Every single one of their films is part of a "cinematic universe," an interconnected set of stories that is incomplete unless fans watch each entry in the studio's output.
27m Mar 31, 2019
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Deportation Looms for Liberians After Decades of Protected Status in the U.S.
Many liberians living in the U.S. arrived fleeing civil war and its aftermath. On March 31, the Trump Administration's decision to end a special program designed to protect them goes into effect. It will send some 4,000 people, many of whom have spent most of their lives in the U.S., back to a country they may no longer know. Special Status In 1991, with fighting renderi...
2m Mar 31, 2019
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Review: The Beach Bum Is the Opposite of a Bummer
The Beach Bum is barely a movie; it's more of a joyous squiggle adorned with a paper cocktail umbrella, a "What did I just see?" dollar-store trinket. But in these dark times, it's just the ticket. Matthew McConaughey is Moondog, a hedonist charmer and poet-genius who spends his days lolling about the Florida Keys, taking pleasure-boat excursions with topless cuties and ha...
2m Mar 31, 2019
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Autopsy Shows Guatemalan Girl Detained by U.S. Border Patrol Died of Bacterial Infection
(HOUSTON) — An autopsy has found that a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of a bacterial infection while detained by the U.S. Border Patrol, in a case that drew worldwide attention to the plight of migrant families detained at the southern U.S. border. The El Paso County Medical Examiner's office released a report Friday of its findings in the death of 7-year-old Jake...
3m Mar 30, 2019
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Mueller Offers a Lesson in the Power of Reason Over Passion
Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, the journalist Walter Lippmann, then 32 years old, published an influential and disturbing critique of democracy and its future. The mood in the U.S. was anxious--about immigration, about race, about women, about the nation's role in the world, about civil liberties, about religion, even about science (the Scop...
7m Mar 30, 2019
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Review: Why Jordan Peele Is the Perfect Heir to Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling
It's a maddeningly familiar scenario: A young black man (Damson Idris) driving on a deserted road gets pulled over by a white police officer. "Just like we always talk about--no attitude, just be respectful," his mom Nina (Sanaa Lathan) anxiously reminds him from the passenger seat. Hoping to make it to his first day at a historically black college without incident, they e...
4m Mar 30, 2019
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Why Are There So Many Bunnies in Scary Movies?
Warning: This story contains spoilers for Us. The opening credits of Jordan Peele's Us features rows upon rows of cages filled with bunnies — a visual that's both innocent and unnerving.
5m Mar 30, 2019
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5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Weekend
It's here: Billie Eilish's long-awaited debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is out, three years after the teen artist first came to the attention of the music industry. Meanwhile, Sky Ferreira — once a rising pop star, now an enigmatic artist of uncertain genre — finally dropped the first song, "Downhill Lullaby," off a long-gestating new project. ...
5m Mar 30, 2019
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She Was Next in Line to Be the President. He Plays One on TV. Who Will Win Ukraine’s Election?
At first it was hard to tell whether the clip was serious. Standing next to a Christmas tree, Volodymyr Zelensky, one of the most famous comedians in Ukraine, posted a video on New Year’s Eve announcing his bid for the presidency. Most people in Ukraine already knew him as the guy who plays the President on television. In his hit sitcom, Servant of the People, he stars as ...
14m Mar 30, 2019
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The Light Years Is More Than a Queer Coming-of-Age Story. It’s a Quest for the Divine
The professional memoir is so much a part of life now, we could almost forget it is also the province of the distinguished personage: someone like Chris Rush, the visual artist and designer, who has written his first memoir, The Light Years, about growing up in '60s and '70s counterculture, in that old-fashioned mode--the story of becoming himself--but with the features of...
2m Mar 30, 2019
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Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Gets Shot Down Months After Missed Deadline
Apple announced Friday it has discontinued its AirPower wireless charging mat after missing its self-imposed deadline by several months. The news comes two years after Apple first unveiled AirPower, which it advertised as capable of charging an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods simultaneously. And just a few days ago Apple released its second-generation AirPods, which sup...
1m Mar 30, 2019
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President Trump Threatens to Close Mexican Border Next Week Over Immigration
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close America's southern border or large sections of it next week, a potentially drastic step affecting the economies of both the U.S. and Mexico, if Mexico does not halt illegal immigration "immediately." "It could mean all trade" with Mexico, Trump said when questioned by reporters in Florida. "We will clos...
4m Mar 30, 2019
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New Letter from Attorney General William Barr Seeks to Reassure on Transparency of Mueller Report
Attorney General William Barr sought to reassure Congress and the public that the Mueller report will be released, promising in a new letter that "everyone will soon be able to read it on their own." The letter also answers crucial questions about the process but highlights new battle lines in the escalating fight over who gets to see Mueller's work.
7m Mar 30, 2019
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This African Country Has Had a Yearlong Ban on Social Media. Here’s What’s Behind the Blackout
When 35-year-old doctor Didier Lalaye went back to his home country of Chad, it wasn't long before he became frustrated. He couldn't open the files on his computer, he couldn't communicate with his university back in the Dutch city of Utrecht, or even Skype friends or family. “It just makes life really difficult,” he tells TIME. “People have complained, but nothing has cha...
8m Mar 29, 2019
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10 Ways the New Dumbo Is Different From the Original
Warning: This post contains spoilers for both the 1941 and 2019 versions of Dumbo. There's a lot of creative liberty taken in Tim Burton's 2019 remake of the beloved 1941 Walt Disney movie Dumbo. The timeline, characters, plot points, climax, resolution: almost everything is different in the 2019 adaptation Dumbo. That's not to say that Burton's rendition doesn't stay f...
9m Mar 29, 2019
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A U.S. Lawsuit Targets Boeing Over the Deadly Ethiopian Airlines Crash
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Boeing in a U.S. federal court Thursday in what appears to be the first litigation over the fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 earlier this month, Reuters reports. The case was brought by the family of Jackson Musoni, a 31-year-old Rwandan national who was among at least 22 U.N. workers killed in the March 10 tragedy....
2m Mar 29, 2019
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You Have Questions About Brexit. Here Are the Answers
Brexit is complicated. We know. But with the clock ticking toward midnight on Britain's membership of the European Union, and with virtually all the options still open, understanding it is more important than ever. Here's what to know about the biggest constitutional challenge the U.K. has faced since World War II. What is Brexit? Brexit is a portmanteau of Britain’s exi...
15m Mar 29, 2019
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We Need Avengers: Endgame to Answer These 10 Extremely Important Questions
Warning: This post contains spoilers for all of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The shocking end of Infinity War left fans with more questions than answers. Though Thanos (Josh Brolin) destroyed half of all life in the universe, the original Avengers team — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Sca...
14m Mar 29, 2019
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Medicaid Work Requirements Stall in Several States
Efforts in several states to require Medicaid recipients to work, study, volunteer or search for a job have stalled amid court challenges and questions from lawmakers, but the Trump Administration vowed to continue approving similar work requirements.
4m Mar 29, 2019
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Artist Builds a Wall Made of Cheese to ‘Make America Grate Again’
A conceptual artist is using Cotija cheese to critique Donald Trump's proposed wall for the U.S./Mexico border, promoting his efforts with the slogan, "Make America Grate Again." Los Angeles-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro has started construction on his cheese wall, which he hopes will stand at 1,000 feet long and 6 feet high when completed.
2m Mar 29, 2019
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Why Divorce May Hurt Wealthier Kids’ Education the Most, According to a New Study
It has long been known that children whose parents split up have lower educational prospects than those whose parents stay together. But a new UCLA study found that divorce does not affect all children equally. Somewhat counterintuitively, the study suggests that divorce shortens the academic career of kids from stable families more than it does those from already struggli...
4m Mar 29, 2019
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Who Should Be on This Year's TIME 100? Vote Now
Every year, the editors of TIME recognize the 100 most influential people in the world. The annual list gathers the artists, leaders, scientists, activists and entrepreneurs who have changed the world over the last year—for better or worse. More than a decade after the first TIME 100, creators continue to produce historic innovations while artists and athletes top their re...
1m Mar 29, 2019
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Disney Dad Singing Opera for His Daughter Should Be a New Amusement Park Attraction
The "magic of Disney" may have earned a whole new meaning ever since one father sang like an angel for his daughter during their vacation at the Disney World resort in Florida. Justin Gigliello shared the joyous occasion on his Twitter account over the weekend. His daughter asked the pianist at one of the park's hotels, the Grand Floridian, to play the opera song "Ave M...
1m Mar 29, 2019
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Gay Sex Is About to Become Punishable With Death by Stoning in Brunei
Brunei has announced that the punishment for gay sex and adultery from April 3 onwards will include death by stoning, as the country moves forward with its implementation of Sharia law. Other harsh punishments, like amputation of a hand or foot for theft, will also be put in place, according to the Guardian. “To legalise such cruel and inhuman penalties is appalling ...
1m Mar 28, 2019
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Plays Her Last Brexit Card: Promising to Resign
From the vantage point of a news helicopter, the hundreds of thousands of people who lined the streets of Central London on March 23 looked like a colony of ants. The thick column stretched from Hyde Park in the west past the Ritz Hotel before spilling out in front of the Houses of Parliament. Broadcast on loudspeakers and carried aloft on placards came the marchers' deman...
6m Mar 28, 2019
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Boeing Has Announced Software Fixes for Its Troubled 737 Max Aircraft
Boeing has announced a fix for the 737 Max airplane, which remains widely grounded across the globe after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff and killed all 157 on board earlier this month. It was the second crash in less than six months, after a Lion Air flight crashed in Indonesia last October. The company will make standard in all 737 planes a w...
2m Mar 28, 2019
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'This Is Very Good.' How Trump Beat the Mueller Investigation
President Donald Trump had finished a round of Sunday golf and repaired to his private quarters at his Palm Beach, Fla., club when the news arrived. After 22 months, the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation were in. Moments before, around 3 p.m. on March 24, Trump's White House lawyer Emmet Flood received a call from Attorney General William Barr's...
13m Mar 28, 2019
13m
Chicago’s Top Prosecutor Says Jussie Smollett Charges Dropped After ‘Slim’ Chance of Prison
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx defended the surprise decision of prosecutors to drop all charges against Empire star Jussie Smollett, saying that the disorderly conduct case didn’t warrant more aggressive prosecution.
3m Mar 28, 2019
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What Police Departments and the Rest of Us Can Do to Overcome Implicit Bias, According to an Expert
Jennifer Eberhardt is a MacArthur "genius grant" winner and psychology professor at Stanford University who studies implicit bias. TIME spoke with her about her new book, [tempo-ecommerce src="https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes-ebook/dp/B07DH89ZDY" title="Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See Think and Do" context="bo...
7m Mar 28, 2019
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Grand Jury Involved in Mueller’s Russia Investigation Is ‘Continuing Robustly’: Prosecutor
(WASHINGTON) — A grand jury that was involved in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is "continuing robustly," a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. The prosecutor, David Goodhand, made the revelation during a hearing over whether court filings in the Mueller probe should be unsealed related to an unidentified foreign corporation that had refused to tur...
3m Mar 28, 2019
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American History Has Some Lessons for the Next Phase of the Mueller Investigation
For President Donald Trump and his supporters, the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had come to a close with no new indictments has been reason to celebrate the end of a trying 22 months. Mueller's report, as summarized by Attorney General William Barr, did not say Trump had not acted to obstruct justice during the course of the probe, but the president and his Adm...
8m Mar 28, 2019
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FAA to Revamp Oversight of Airplane Development After Boeing 737 Max Crashes
(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Aviation Administration plans to revamp oversight of airplane development after the two deadly crashes of Boeing's new 737 Max raised questions of whether the FAA has gone too far in letting companies regulate themselves, a Transportation Department official said Wednesday.
6m Mar 28, 2019
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Wisconsin Man Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping Jayme Closs and Killing Her Parents
(BARRON, Wis.) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, killing her parents and holding her captive in a remote cabin for three months. Jake Patterson, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. A count of armed burglary was dropped. The intentional homicide counts carry a sentence of li...
2m Mar 28, 2019
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Monica Lewinsky Has Thoughts About How the Mueller Report Compares to the Starr Report
Monica Lewinsky has some opinions on the difference between the way Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report was handled and how Ken Starr handled his. Lewinsky, whose affair with then-President Bill Clinton while she was a White House intern helped lead to Clinton's impeachment proceedings, has spent decades fighting to defend herself to the public.
3m Mar 28, 2019
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A Lot of People Aren't Happy About These 'St. Louis-Style' Bagels
Everyone has strong opinions about bagels. Today, Twitter learned just how strong those opinions really were after one user shared a photo of what he called the "St. Louis secret of ordering bagels," which involves getting your morning carbohydrates sliced from top to bottom like a loaf of bread, instead of lengthwise as it's traditionally done. "It was a hit!" Alex Krautm...
2m Mar 28, 2019
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Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar's Rohingya
When Rohingya refugees began fleeing into Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017, lawyer and activist Razia Sultana found herself on the frontline of a sexual violence epidemic. The Myanmar military, in its scorched-earth campaign against the Muslim minority, laid waste to entire villages, carried out massacres and lined up women to be raped, according to U.N. investigators, who h...
9m Mar 27, 2019
9m
Why NASA’s Planned All-Female Spacewalk Really Fell Apart
NASA has long had a gender problem. The space agency that launched its first man into space in 1961 did not fly the first woman — astronaut Sally Ride — until 1983. Since then, more than 40 other American women have followed. It's a figure that still compares poorly with the 300-some men who have earned their space wings, but the astronaut corps is at least sufficiently co...
7m Mar 27, 2019
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'You Were At My Wedding Denise.' How a Meghan McCain Response Became an Internet Catchphrase
Meghan McCain is a not one to shy away from defending herself and her fellow ladies on The View when someone tries to comment. On Tuesday, March 26, Denise McAllister tweeted out a comment on an article about McCain and her coworkers about their show asking, 'Can someone please explain to me the purpose of The View?' She went on to call the women 'delusional mental midg...
3m Mar 27, 2019
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Why Spending $1 Billion on a Border Wall Is Risky for the Military
The Pentagon may face long-term negative effects by defying Congress to fund construction for a wall along the Mexican border, but Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is going ahead with it anyway. The Defense Department notified Congress its intention to transfer $1 billion in funding to go toward building 57 miles of fencing, roads and other measures on the sout...
5m Mar 27, 2019
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These Americans discussed the Mueller investigation. Here's their surprising consensus
As Washington waited with bated breath for the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, a group of Iowa voters tried to figure out what they thought of it all. Some were Republicans, some were Democrats and some were in between. But as they discussed the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, they came to a surprising consensus.
9m Mar 27, 2019
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New York County Bans Unvaccinated Kids From Public Places in Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop Measles Outbreak
A New York county is banning children who have not been vaccinated against measles from visiting public places — the latest and most dramatic attempt to stop preventable measles outbreaks in communities across the country. Rockland County Executive Ed Day declared a state of emergency related to the measles outbreak and announced the public places ban during a press con...
4m Mar 27, 2019
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The Trump Administration Is Broadening the Scope of the Anti-Abortion ‘Global Gag Rule’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the expansion of restrictions for foreign aid to organizations that provide abortion-related services or advocacy on Wednesday. "We will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry," Pompeo said at a press conference in Washington D.C. The n...
3m Mar 27, 2019
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The ‘Apple Card’ Is Apple’s New Credit Card. Is It Right for You?
Apple on Monday announced the Apple Card, a new credit card it says will make it easier for customers to track their spending habits, pay their bills on time and more. The Apple Card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs and MasterCard, is managed through a redesigned Wallet app on the iPhone. It offers a competitive interest rate, variable cash back on purchases, a...
6m Mar 27, 2019
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