A blowtorch and a hair dryer.
New material shows Trump’s team offering yet another quid pro quo in Ukraine, as well as surveilling the US ambassador there. 1/21
Lessons from a former Obama speechwriter who recently conducted focus groups in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Miami. 2/21
What political reporters forget: Twitter stories and micro-scandals don't matter to voters who don't follow—or simply hate—the news. 3/21
Want to see how Trump broke the news media? Listen to NPR struggle to normalize his latest disjointed rants. 4/21
Seven reasons why gaming may take over Big Media. 5/21
The principal ministers of the Russian government resign to ease a constitutional overhaul proposed by Putin. 6/21
A database of deaths, regions, and migration flows finds there have been 89 migrant fatalities recorded worldwide so far in 2020. 7/21
An adult entertainment company defends giving tents (emblazoned with its logo) to homeless people in US cities. 8/21
A homeless man uses the "castle doctrine" to justify stabbing a college student who kicked his cardboard home. 9/21
Flying on a plane has gotten a lot cheaper in the US over the last five years. 10/21
Airlines promise to find the best carbon offsets, but a lot of their efforts "amount to little more than greenwashing." 11/21
During the climate crisis, smart cities may need to become more "lo-tek"—floating farms, urban forests, and parks that become lakes. 12/21
How to make popcorn with a blowtorch and a hair dryer. 13/21
An engineering company introduces a dog-like cargobike that follows couriers around while they’re making deliveries. 14/21
Livers can currently only be stored for up to 24 hours before transplant. A new machine can keep them alive for seven days. 15/21
New sunglasses thwart some forms of 3D facial recognition through special lenses that block infrared lights. 16/21
Sex-ed students always ask about communication and relationships, but their other questions change with the news. 17/21
Peggy Orenstein: Teenagers and young men still don’t have the right vocabulary for sex. 18/21
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio revises his favorite bagel pick (he likes them toasted). 19/21
The story of the bagel makers who beat the Mafia, but ultimately lost out to a stainless-steel rotating oven. 20/21
A man eats and ranks 664 tacos during six months of exploring Southern California. 21/21
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