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This post reveals “plot” points of episode 10 of The Bachelor season 21. According to the fabricated lexicon of The Bachelor, the show’s characters do not participate in a mere televised dating competition. They have been brought together, instead, on an emotional adventure that the show refers to, infallibly, as “a journey.” The Bachelor’s insistence … Read more
This week, The Atlantic reported that Trump officials shared military-attack plans in a Signal group chat and inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined him to discuss. In the Trump administration’s insistence that the information in the “Houthi PC small group”—including the exact times American … Read more
Members of the the Druze Military Council, paramilitary group in Sweida, Syria on the 8th of March, 2025. Emily Garthwaite for NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Garthwaite for NPR The new government in Syria, formed after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, is working to disband local militias to form one national army. But … Read more
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Wednesday about current and planned changes the company is making, including safety. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Under sharp questioning from U.S. Senators Wednesday, the CEO of Boeing acknowledged a lax safety culture existed at … Read more
MARCIA BIGGS: The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, recently listed 81 locations where bombs were dropped, but had not yet exploded. Facilities used to make weapons were often on the list of high-value targets for the coalition. So now those places are twice as likely to contain dangerous items. … Read more
KATHERINE KENDALL, Actress/ Photographer: Well, I was you know, a young actress, and I had had a formal meeting at the Miramax office earlier that day. And then, at the end of the meeting, which I thought went really well, he invited me to come to screenings. He said: “Welcome to the Miramax family. You … Read more
On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for the French Presidency in 2027. Le Pen, the far-right leader of the National Rally, the political party formerly known as the National Front, had been leading first-round Presidential election polls. The National Rally is now … Read more
A summary of Trump’s so-called ‘liberation day’ tariff announcement At a 4pm ET Rose Garden ceremony today, Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on US trade partners across the world. Here’s a short summary of the key takeaways: The president announced sweeping tariffs of 10% to 49% on all goods imported from abroad. Those included a … Read more
In This Story President Donald Trump announced his plans for reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday afternoon, just after financial markets closed. DraftKings CEO on March Madness, AI, and the future of sports gambling The president said his tariffs will be applied on a country-by-country basis, with the U.S. calculating the combined rate of tariffs, non-monetary barriers, … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, a “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” and “despicable human being,” according to his own records. McConnell made the withering assessments in a series of private “personal oral histories” that he gave to Michael Tackett, the deputy Washington bureau chief of the Associated Press, who has a … Read more
