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From stylist to shapewear designer. It's safe to say that Kim Kardashian has always had her pulse on what's fashionable. In the early '00s, the SKIMS mogul helped make velour...

All for one. And one for all. 25 years ago, one of the most definitive movies about female friendship made its box office debut: Now and Then. Yes, you really are that old, and no,...

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Candidates are adjusting. Voters are worried. But Elections Canada says it is prepared to hold the Oct. 26 byelections in Toronto Centre and York Centre.

With money and a message, a Democratic challenger is taking a page from a Republican incumbent's playbook for winning elections in the state.

The 2021 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (curated by Andrew Spaeth and myself) has 136 research/teaching positions and 12 teaching assistant professor positions.

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The latest episode of The Blueprint lets us take a peak at the process.

Microsoft will help connect and deploy new services using swarms of low-orbit spacecraft being proposed by SpaceX, part of an initiative targeting commercial and government space businesses that comes just months after Amazon disclosed its own space-focused effort.

1. US voters turn against Donald Trump's economic policies  Financial Times
2. US election 2020: Trump and Biden feud over debate topics  BBC News
3. Joe Biden criticises Donald Trump for renewed Fauci attack over Covid – US politics live  The Guardian
4. Tom Del Beccaro: A Trump 'surprise' victory is in the offing -- here are the 10 tea leaves pointing to it  Fox News
5. Mike Pence: Reelect President Donald Trump to renew America’s promise  USA TODAY
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Welcome back! Among the many courses offered this semester, students may elect to study essential climate-mitigation skills like underwater basket weaving.

Attention Disney and Netflix: Leave Maleficent and Carmen Sandiego alone. My soul needs villains, those perpetrators of change.

Don't be fooled by the old-school design, with springy buttons and a black-and-white screen. It's the Game Boy for the wireless, open-source era.

To my robovac, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same. There is no success or failure—these concepts have merged.

Universities are digitally spying on students to make sure they don’t cheat on online tests. A whole generation could be learning to tolerate surveillance.

With high backrests and generous adjustability, these thrones ease the physical strain of epic Doom Eternal sessions while also improving your WFH setup.

Each month we publish a six-word story—and it could be written by you.

In an in-depth interview, Minister of Justice Mária Kolíková outlines her ambitious plan to renew public trust in the judiciary.

Editors at the nation’s top science journals have been on a bit of a tear lately. For months they’ve been working overtime to publish urgent research analyzing the coronavirus pandemic. Now, in the final weeks leading up to the presidential election, several prestigious research journals and science magazines have delivered editorials excoriating President Trump for his reflexively anti-science approach to policy-making during a global health crisis. Centuries of tradition have previously barred... Читать дальше...

When a domestic violence organization in Wisconsin put up signs reading “Black Lives Matter,” they did not know that it would lead to a backlash from police and the loss of a $25,000 grant to provide services. Embrace is the only domestic violence program for four counties, including part of a tribal reservation; in Barron County, the group’s five law enforcement partners all withdrew.

It’s been nearly a year now that Luis Adrian Martinez Reyes has lived in a tent with his wife (who is pregnant), child, and godchild in the migrant camp for asylum-seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande, which marks the U.S.-Mexico border. Camp residents are mostly like him: young parents with children. They cook on small clay stoves with wood provided by aid groups that also deliver three meals a day, along with supplies including masks, sanitizer, and baby items. People use portable toilets... Читать дальше...

The Atlantic is perhaps the quintessential American magazine. Founded by Boston abolitionists in 1857, its role in the media ecosystem stands in contrast to that of The New Yorker, which, despite regularly featuring excellent reporting, is first and foremost a literary magazine. Among political magazines, it is neither overtly right-wing like the National Review nor overtly left-wing like The Nation (or, for that matter, The New Republic). The Atlantic is a magazine not precisely of the center... Читать дальше...

If Donald Trump is voted out of office next month, expect the ranks of the Resistance to suddenly swell. 

Signs of the apocalypse are everywhere. It’s not just the worsening pandemic and Donald Trump’s determination to hold superspreader events in every swing state, but also the daily end-is-nigh stories about nightmare election scenarios, no matter how outlandish.

Preserving American democracy in a moment of peril