Is This the Most Notable (Purple) Wedding Dress Ever Worn?
The brides wore plum-colored silk. One of them, Anna Murray, was married on Sept. 15, 1838, to Frederick Johnson, who had recently escaped from slavery. Born Frederick Bailey, he had…
A Chess Champion’s Warning About Ukraine and U.S. Democracy
His organization, the Renew Democracy Initiative, has already distributed about $4 million in humanitarian aid in Ukraine, and is in the early stages of a multimillion-dollar communications campaign to buck…
What’s a Hard Fork?
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Introducing ‘Hard Fork’ Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the bleeding edge of tech.…
When You Step Inside This Lab, You Must Whip It
In the right hands, bullwhips can halve playing cards or deliver earsplitting cracks. And then there’s April Choi, a whip performer. She can play Jenga with a whip, flicking individual…
After the Storm, the Mold: Warming Is Worsening Another Costly Disaster
On Tuesday morning, six days after Hurricane Ian tore through southwestern Florida, Alvaro “Moe” Zuluaga and his team of mold remediators walked through a house in Naples. The walls were…
The Spy Who Escaped the Eye of the Storm
WASHINGTON — The founding mayor of Sanibel, Fla., fled his waterfront island home so quickly last Wednesday as Hurricane Ian approached that he left his computer on and the refrigerator…
How to Time Your Leaf-Peeping Trip This Fall
Planning a pilgrimage to enjoy the brilliant fall leaves will be trickier this year. Months of record-breaking drought in the Northeast have deprived trees of water, and in the West,…
Robert Gilman: Ex-US marine jailed in Russia for drunken attack
Robert Gilman is the latest American to be given a lengthy prison term in Russia.
Queen of Country music Loretta Lynn dies aged 90
“Through the years they’ve said I’m broke, homeless, cheating, drinking, gone crazy, terminally ill, and even dead! Poor things can’t ever get it right,” she wrote on Facebook. “I guess…
Trump seeks Supreme Court ruling in Mar-a-Lago dispute
Lawyers for Mr Trump argued in their 37-page filing on Tuesday that the special master should have access to the classified records to “determine whether documents bearing classification markings are…