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The first GOP presidential primary debate take place this Thursday in Cleveland, Ohio. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former CEO Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former Texas Gov….
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by…
Credit: Jake Reeves/The Huffington Post FERGUSON, Mo. — Nearly a half-century ago, a University of Missouri law professor named T.E. Lauer issued a warning. Missouri’s network of municipal courts, he wrote, were “a modern anomaly” generally “overlooked or ignored as the misshapen stepchildren of our judicial system.” It was “disgraceful,” he argued, that poor people…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code Some interesting weather happened early this morning across parts of NYC and Long Island, and most of us slept right through it as if we’re gonna live forever and can afford to skip yet another spectacular manifestation of nature’s majestic glory. “What are those flashes of…
A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned. Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of the June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations,…
Six months ago, I hopped on a plane and said goodbye to winter. After spending 92 percent of my life on the East Coast — and the last nine years in New York City — I was moving to San Francisco, along with thousands of other migrants. When I landed, I was struck by the mild weather and the…
Ireland has just repealed thousands of antiquated laws, including talking smack about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. I woke up this morning at my home in Ireland and cooked myself a big bowl of oatmeal. I then went outside and shouted at the top of my voice, “Anne Boleyn is a whore and King Henry…
Police arrested a health teacher from a tony Manhattan prep school today for allegedly having sex with a drunk 16-year-old in the bathroom of Lit Lounge in the East Village. According to the Daily News, David Azurmendi, 34, had taught for the last three years at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, where New York’s elite pay…
Lantern slide of the New York Public Library (via NYPL) As the debate continues over the renovation of the main branch of the New York Public Library — a design by Norman Foster that would radically overhaul the stacks and other features of the historic Beaux-Arts building — we are looking at some of the city’s less…
The platforms are like a free sauna. (Photo by Arin Sang-urai/Improv Everywhere) Every summer the subway platforms become hotter, because that is how seasons and temperatures work. Sometimes it feels very hot down there, but sometimes it’s so hot outside that it feels cooler down there, and sometimes when that subway wind comes blowing through…