Watch now: Tiki and Tierney: Antonio Daniels talks about Zion Williamson as the face of the NBA (2:15) An inevitability in light of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police and the protests that followed has been debated for months. On Thursday, it came true: The New …
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26 clean beauty products that work, from a beauty editor
I’ve been a beauty editor for 13 years, long enough to remember when clean beauty was a vaguely crisp, mostly unglamorous niche category. Even a decade ago, the use of clean beauty products often involved sacrificing performance and aesthetics. (I shudder at the memory of a night cream whose sticky …
Read More »No, the GDP did not plummet “32.9%” in the second quarter, a still terrible 9.5% plummeted: Time to kill “Annual rates”
A perfect quarter to see the absurdity of reporting “annual rates” in the headlines. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. This morning, we are faced with horrible news, which we have been waiting for all along, but this news, while really horrible, was also the result of something called the …
Read More »Pompeo covers Trump claims ranging from Russian rewards to withdrawal of German troops
At all times, the Secretary of State defended the President or provided coverage for decisions and policies that have generated bipartisan concern and anger, most recently on Thursday morning, when Trump, who is in the polls and facing devastating economic figures, raised the idea that Americans delay their trip to …
Read More »Washington Post: DHS gathered intelligence reports on 2 journalists covering protests in Portland
Three open source intelligence reports that were sent to federal law enforcement agencies and obtained by the Post summarize the tweets sent by two journalists, New York Times journalist Mike Baker and Benjamin Wittes, the editor-in-chief of the blog. Lawfare, and note that both had released leaked DHS documents. Some …
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