(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) Last year, browsing Facebook, I noticed a number of my friends, acquaintances, and childhood enemies appeared to have sprung hearty entrepreneurial streaks. I scrolled through opportunities to purchase a medley of dietary supplements, lavender-scented essential…

(Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Marvel Studios/Ringer illustration) James Gunn returned with his brand of kooky, irreverent blockbuster action on May 5 with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. After checking it out for ourselves, The Ringer staff came together (much like a ragtag group of space…

Richard Nixon at the White House in 1973, the year he ordered the firing of the special prosecutor investigating Watergate. PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRY BURROUGHS / AP On October 19, 1973, a Friday, it became clear that the Justice Department’s special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, would not obey…

“I’m literally in tears right now. That’s all I have to say,” said a longtime special agent who’s known and worked with Jim Comey for years | AP Photo The news of FBI Director James Comey’s firing struck like a thunderclap at field offices around the country, where agents heard first from TV or the…

The president deliberated for more than a week before ousting the FBI chief who was investigating Trump associates. President Donald Trump had grown angry over the Russia investigation and that the FBI director wouldn't support his claims that President Barack Obama had tapped his phones in Trump…

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is overseeing the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. He was also the face of Mr. Trump’s decision to remove the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump’s firing of the…

The president of the United States is lying again. He is lying about the reason he fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director. Trump claimed that he was doing so because Comey bungled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email, which meant that Comey was “not able to effectively lead the bureau.”…

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary decision to fire the FBI director James Comey is a stunning moment in American politics, one that has historians reaching back decades for any parallels. Comey’s termination, which the president says was a recommendation from the Justice Department, comes as…

President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday, at the recommendation of senior Justice Department officials who said he had treated Hillary Clinton unfairly and in doing so damaged the credibility of the FBI and the Justice Department. The startling development comes as Comey was…

Menstruation marketing Marketers of the Pill felt women would be more comfortable with a reliable monthly bleed, even if their periods weren’t as regular beforehand. (AP Photo/Mike Derer) At some point, the scientists who invented hormonal contraception decided that women still needed a period every…

More than 90 died in one of the America’s worst train wrecks The wreckage at Malbone Street in 1918. (Wikimedia) E dward Luciano was already 11 hours deep into his shift as a subway motorman for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) when he agreed to an appealing offer: a $20 bonus and a raise to…

Colorado prosecutors have dismissed felony drug and weapons charges against a suspect because they learned that Pueblo Police Department offier Seth Jensen defrauded the court by faking his bodycam footage, "recreating" his bust after the suspect's car was in the impound lot. Now the body cam…

The history of besieged Presidencies is, in the end, the history of hubris, of blindness to one’s faults, of deafness to warnings. Illustration by Ben Wiseman / Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty Hours after Donald Trump’s Inauguration, a post appeared on the official White House petitions page,…

PARIS — The French presidential runoff transcended national politics. It was globalization against nationalism. It was the future versus the past. Open versus closed. But in his resounding victory on Sunday night , Emmanuel Macron, the centrist who has never held elected office, won because he was…

It's been a year since we warned that Intel's Management Engine -- a separate computer within your own computer, intended to verify and supervise the main system -- presented a terrifying, unauditable security risk that could lead to devastating, unstoppable attacks. Guess what happened next? For…

NEW YORK (AP) — "This crew is good," declares Al Pacino's Los Angeles detective Vincent Hanna in Michael Mann's sprawling noir saga "Heat." Hanna is speaking of Neil McCauley's (Robert De Niro) criminal gang but the same could also be said of Mann and his production team. The sheer filmmaking rigor…

Two years ago, I was sick of nightlife. After starting my adult life as a promoter, it didn't take long before I started to despise this drug-addled world in which everything is superficial, in which men are in the driver's seat, only accepting women on flyers in underwear and where drugs are like…

Members of the US Congress are holding “private conversations” about whether Donald Trump should be removed from office, reports suggest. After a difficult first 100 days that have seen the US President mired in a string of scandals and mishaps, senators and congressmen are said to be considering…

Cubs reliever Pedro Strop leaving a Wrigley Field bullpen, which this year was moved beneath the bleachers. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — In 1969, when the Chicago Cubs found themselves in a pennant race for the first time in decades and the games at Wrigley Field suddenly began to…

Say this: It’s hard not to enjoy yet another opportunity to watch “Moonlight” win an award. When Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome gleefully accepted the award for Best Kiss — speaking passionately about how “this is for the others, the misfits” — it was probably the most legitimately great moment…

Stockholm studio Snask's North Korea rebrand features a heart motif designed to create a "common feeling of belonging". The rebrand was created for Icon Magazine's ongoing Rethink feature , which invites design studios to reinterpret anything they choose – from cigarette packaging to the pope. Snask…

Valerie June’s songs linger on the textures of everyday life: coming and going, the possibilities of love and loss, the passage of time, the engine of ambition. PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW TAMMARO FOR THE NEW YORKER I began listening to the singer and songwriter Valerie June last fall, at a time when the…

This article originally appeared on Noisey US. Can't Stop, Won't Stop is a new film about the genesis and legacy of famed hip-hop boutique label Bad Boy that follows Sean "Diddy" Combs a.k.a. Puff Daddy as he and former Bad Boy artists prepared for this past summer's two-week label reunion tour. At…

Reservations are now being taken at Amsterdam's Eenmaal ; a chic, stripped-back restaurant that serves only single diners. They claim to be the first of their kind; an eatery for the solitary. Cashing in on the lone eater is, clearly, big business. According to a study by the Hartman Group , nearly…

Design Thinking continues to be a hot topic (this article is one of many talking about it). Design Thinking has been hyped and even fetishized but there are also voices questioning its value, impact, and relevance. Design Thinking faces criticism for its lacking integration with business and…

From security cameras to traffic lights, an increasing amount of appliances we interact with on a daily basis are internet connected. A device can be considered IoT-enabled when the functionality offered by its Embedded System is exposed through an internet connected API. Internet-of-Things…

(Funomena) Video games don’t have a great record with relationships. Romance in games often feels shallow and puerile — and that’s been the best-case scenario. Robin Hunicke, the cofounder of Funomena, has some thoughts about that. Her studio’s latest endeavor, Luna , features animals instead of…

Apple The Internet of Shit is a column about all the shitty things we try to connect to the internet, and what can be done about it. It’s from the anonymous creator of the Internet of Shit Twitter account. If you want to start an absolutely thrilling dinner table conversation with friends, try…

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images House Republicans have passed the American Health Care Act , a bill that would greatly reduce funding for Obamacare’s coverage programs, leaving millions fewer people with health insurance. The bill would dramatically remake the American health care system, changing…

House Republicans narrowly approved a controversial plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, taking a significant first step toward fulfilling a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the 2010 law that served as a landmark overhaul of the US healthcare system. Republicans passed the…

The booming growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), like most transformational technologies, is both exciting and scary. It’s exciting to consider all the ways our lives may improve, from managing our calendars to making medical diagnoses, but it’s scary to consider the social…

Written in collaboration with Ava Ex Machina . Last week a notable contributor to the Drupal community was ejected for what Drupal’s creators considered “unacceptable personal beliefs” that were in violation of the spirit of this collaborative community. The ejection was both immediate and harsh,…

One month ago I felt like an empty air balloon. There was equally as much potential for me to fly high, as there was for turning into an awkward artwork, titled “Things going down, 2017” . Today, things are looking brighter. After leaving my Digital Marketing job at adidas, I turned into a student…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2006, when I was 14 and all tangled red hair and too much eyeliner and rampant insecurities, my ninth-grade health teacher, a sarcastic guy in his 40s, opened class one day with a single statement: “Ladies, everything can be…

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON TABIOLO / GETTY Photo No. 1 Behold my mackerel. I have caught it for you and it is for you to eat. Love me, for I shall fill your dinner table with many fish such as this one in the days to come. During our time together, you will never go hungry or fear famine. You will never…

Photo Credit: Heisenberg Media How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy, transportation, and aerospace)? To explain Musk’s success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic ( he regularly works…

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert ’s controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert’s commentary earlier in the week, according to the FCC’s chief. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai promised…

PARIS — On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation’s…

If yesterday’s House vote on the American Health Care Act (or Trumpcare, as he reportedly hates to hear it called, so naturally that’s what we’ll call it) left you terrified, you aren’t alone. The new bill would be devastating to millions of Americans, in large part because it would allow states to…