On today's show:WNYCs election series America, Are We Ready? looks at the state of election coverage during this very abnormal campaign season.Brooke GladstoneandMicah Loewinger, co-hosts of WNYC's On the Media, discuss the decisions by several major newspapers to pull their candidate endo...

In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Serbia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed to go live, Amazon launched its Echo smart speaker, rendering Cubic.AI essentially dead in the water. “It was a disaster,” Crewkov […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...

A man once dubbed "America's kindest husband" is now suspected of murdering his wife after he was jailed for life for a shocking crime against a teen, according to the slain woman's family.

Among U.S. workers, those in the food service and hospitality industries are some of the most common consumers of marijuana, according to a new analysis of five years’ worth of federal health survey data by federal researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People in arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations […]The post

Kamala Harris called Wednesday for Americans to stop pointing fingers at each other as she tried to push past comments made by President Joe Biden about Donald Trumps supporters and garbage and keep the f...

It seems the Kremlins finance wizards are running out of rabbits to pull out of the hat.The Russian government revealed this when it released its revised national budget for 2025, showing the spiraling costs of Russian President Vladimir Putins war on Ukraine. Now its up to Europe and the U.S. to exploit this and increase the economic cost for Russia by plugging sanctions lo...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa and now predominantly Central America have transformed Worthington, a once overwhelmingly white farming community. S...

A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.

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Some of Donald Trump's Republican adversaries are openly supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential race, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, former U.S. Attorney General Alber...

What one countys rightward swing says about America.

Good morning. Its Thursday. Today well find out why the theme of the annual Village Halloween Parade is meow. Well also meet some Mexican American artists who have been assembling Day of the Dead altars with one thought in mind: authenticity. Jeanne Fleming decided on the theme for this years Village Halloween Parade during the summer, when she heard that Senator JD Van...

EXCLUSIVE: Action thriller Stand Your Ground has been picked up in the U.S. by Epic Pictures. The deal was locked ahead of the upcoming American Film Market.  Sales outfit Iuvit Media, which brokered the deal, has also sold the flick to Tiberius Film for German-speaking territories, MediaSquad for Poland and Front Row for MENA territories. […]

A 'Big Threat' - Chinas military advances continue to accelerate, particularly in nuclear capabilities with the H-20 stealth bomber. Designed to enhance Chinas nuclear triad by adding an air-based component, the H-20 could reach U.S. targets as far as Guam, and possibly Hawaii with refueling.

U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes isn’t a member of the historically Black sororities and fraternities known as the “Divine Nine.” But throughout her hotly contested reelection campaign this year, Hayes, the first Black woman to represent Connecticut in Congress, has sometimes felt like she’s a fellow soror, the term […]

The recent declinein overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, according to a new Stateline analysis of federal data. Health experts in nonwhite communities say theyre finding strategies that work in their areas, but that they still struggle for […]

Elsewhere, heads of government are usually chosen by direct vote or by the winning party in a parliamentary election.

Experts say top chief executives are treading a fine line to avoid any backlash in the event of a Trump victoryAfter the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Americas business leaders came out strongly in their criticism of Donald Trump. Now as the Harris campaign brands Trump a fascist and Trump threatens retribution against the enemy within there appears to be a c...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon.