Posts by Sophie Clearwater
North Korea adds second destroyer as US, South Korea and Japan hold military exercise
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un put his second naval destroyer into service and called for building a more reliable nuclear deterrent, state media reported Monday, as the United States, South Korea and Japan began a trilateral military exercise he views as a security threat. The ship’s commissioning comes as…
Read MoreThis Labor Day, It’s Time for a New Social Contract With Workers
Independent workers make up a growing share of the workforce, yet too many of the protections built for American workers still depend on a traditional employer. Photo by New York Times Co./Hulton Archive/Getty Images On Monday morning, a teaching artist leaves a Bronx public school after leading music class. In the afternoon, she edits a…
Read MoreMarian Goodman’s Multiples, Inc. Banners to Resurface at New York’s Independent 20th Century
Marian Goodman Gallery will stage a special presentation of the iconic banners, seen here in a photo circa 1965, at Independent 20th Century at the Breuer later this month. Courtesy Multiples, Inc. / Marian Goodman Gallery Independent is preparing to host the highly anticipated 2026 edition of Independent 20th Century at the Breuer, the former…
Read MoreRob Reiner Posthumously Wins 2026 Emmy Award 9 Months After Death
Rob Reiner remains a titan of television. Less than a year after the legendary filmmaker and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were killed at their Brentwood, Calif., home on Dec. 14, Rob won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the Sept. 6 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for his role as…
Read MoreYou Won’t Believe How Far Sandra Bullock Went to Recreate the Practical Magic House for Practical Magic 2
Sandra Bullock brought her magic touch to the Practical Magic 2 set. Indeed, her onscreen daughters Joey King and Maisie Williams revealed that Bullock—who is reprising her role as Sally Owens in… Source link
Read MoreYoshitomo Nara’s New York Story Can Be Found in its Punk Clubs
An angry punk rock singer is among the drawings created by Yoshitomo Nara on the walls of Niagara in New York’s East Village. Photo by Jamie Lubetkin It’s a warm summer afternoon in New York’s East Village, happy hour, in fact, inside Niagara, a divey joint with a punk rock pedigree that is announced by…
Read More‘We Are Family’: E.U. to Give Greenland Investment Boost Amid Trump’s Threats
Security in the region has become an increasingly important issue for Europe, with Russia, China, and the U.S. all eyeing up emerging shipping routes in the Arctic and possibly new avenues to critical minerals. Trump’s annexation threats loom over Greenland Trump has long expressed his desire to control Greenland—threats he has ramped up since returning…
Read MoreThe Most Bizarre Moments of the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial
O.J. Simpson met Nicole Brown in 1977 and divorced his first wife, Marguerite, in 1979. He married Nicole on Feb. 2, 1985; their daughter Sydney was born eight months later, and son Justin was born in 1988. “You guys never do anything,” Nicole told police when they arrived at the Simpson home at 360 N. Rockingham Ave. in…
Read MoreDaisy Dixon’s “Depraved” Grapples With the Art of Problematic Artists
Daisy Dixon. Photo: Balazs Toro “Some artists are extraordinary, not just in their creative wisdom, but in their misdeeds,” writes Daisy Dixon in her book Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art, which hit shelves last month. The painting featured on the cover of the U.S. edition of her book is The Rape of Europa by…
Read MoreQ&A: KXAN investigates family’s tough choices amid ICE custody
On this edition of “Inside the Investigation” – an extended discussion first featured in the latest episode of our weekly investigative program, “Cause & Effect” – KXAN investigators Grace Reader and Josh Hinkle examine what happened to 5-year-old Liam Tadeo after he was taken into ICE custody alongside his father in Austin. Source link
Read MoreThe Sartorial Rise of Nicholas Galitzine, From Sundance Unknown to Fendi’s Front Row
A torn shoulder is a strange place for a fashion story to begin, but Nicholas Galitzine‘s begins there. Hammersmith, September 1994: a City financier’s son and a Greek-American mother, raised Greek Orthodox under a surname borrowed from the Russian princely House of Golitsyn—borrowed being the word, since the documented paternal line is stubbornly British and…
Read MoreThe poorest in the US can't find housing even as low-income units sit empty
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450-a-month tiny home with no running water and a communal bathroom would be a stretch. Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city…
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