A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country's wealthiest people pleaded guilty to a federal charge Thursday in an agreement with prosecutors.
Former Vice President Mike Pence will skip the Nevada caucuses run by the state Republican Party, which has adopted rules that critics say favor former President Donald Trump, and will instead compete in a state-run primary contest.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his first campaign advertisement after dumping the Democratic Party to run as an independent, shared that he is "fed up."
A significant meeting of influential Republicans is happening this weekend. That would be the First in the Nation Leadership Summit, taking place Friday and Saturday in scenic Nashua, New Hampshire.
Being Werner Herzog, or just working with him, may be an occupational hazard. In his baroquely titled new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, the German filmmaker describes almost dying many times. His casts and crews fare little better: A single production in the Amazon suffered an attack by hostile tribesmen who near-fatally gored several crew members with 6-foot-long arrows, a poisonous snake bite, and two plane crashes, one of which left someone paraplegic. The bitten man, knowing he had only a minute before the venom reached his heart, amputated his own leg with a chainsaw. Those wounds used the last anesthetic, so when an accident split a cameraman’s hand, a prostitute soothed him by holding his head between her breasts. One of Herzog’s star actors, the notorious Klaus Kinski, once started shooting at colleagues with a rifle. Thankfully, the only casualty was a finger.
Good thing Jackson, Wyoming, kept its fleet of 30 diesel buses on hand when it purchased eight electric buses to lower its transit system’s carbon emissions.
Whether you’re a Man United season ticket holder like my grandfather, who watched all four hours without so much as a tea break, or you’re more familiar with David Beckham as the husband of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham (AKA Posh), there is something in Netflix’s new docuseries Beckham for you. It has all the trappings of a hit reality TV show: famous faces, cringy confessionals, tensions between the cast. Plus, it’s got high-tension sports drama. It switches between the present day and the height of Beckham’s heyday so seamlessly that I found myself at the edge of my seat anticipating the outcome of soccer games that happened before I was born.
Getting wasted and emptying your stomach is never advisable. It is almost excusable at a college frat party, but not if you are an adult, and definitely not if you are out to brunch on a Sunday morning.
Capitalism isn’t always about competition. Sometimes, it functions like a team sport. Economists, for instance, talk about “complementary goods.” Apps such as Twitter and WhatsApp made iPhones and Androids more valuable. High-quality, affordable speakers and headphones make people more likely to buy music. It’s a win-win for different companies.