Southeast Alaska’s isolated wolf population has declined by 60 percent in just one year, dropping from an estimated 221 individuals in 2013 to 89 wolves in 2014, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Those numbers are already outdated. Another 29 wolves were reportedly killed in the 2014–2015…

Email Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is being investigated over the disappearance of money intended for victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the BBC has reported. Mr Warner visited the country in the months after the disaster and pledged $974,550 from football's world governing body and…

MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Sergeant Ivan Kharkiv of the Azov Battalion is 21 years old but seems years beyond his age. He nods as the battalion’s press officer, Natalia, introduces us. The young officer invites us to walk with him through the yard of the dilapidated former School #61—now an Azov Battalion…

President Barack Obama talks to the media about the USA Freedom Act at the White House last month.Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the…

Activists protest against the Shell drilling rig Polar Pioneer in Seattle, Washington, on 16 May 2015.Photograph: Jason Redmond/Reuters Shell has one or two rivals for the title of Planet’s Most Irresponsible Company, but it’s definitely the most ironic. The grand irony, of course, is that, having…

(updated below) It was announced today that former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has a new job : That’s similar to the career path of other key members of the Obama team, such as his former Budget Chief Peter Orszag , who receives an annual $4 million salary for this: Gibbs’…

Cole Mellino Jun. 08, 2015 11:27AM EST The Undercurrent , an online news site that bills itself as the antidote to the mainstream media's five-second soundbite, made a five-minute video explaining how Monsanto came to have such a huge control over our food system. In this clever, satirical video,…

Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday. All but one of the facilities are owned by for-profit entities and the largest number of hospitals — 20 — are in Florida. For the most…

Published on June 6, 2015 In Sioux City, Iowa They filtered into the courtroom and waited for the arrival of the judge, anxious to hear what he would decide. The defendant’s family knelt in the gallery to pray for a lenient sentence. A lawyer paced the entryway and rehearsed his final argument. The…

Albert Woodfox has been released after spending more than four decades in solitary confinement.Photograph: Handout A federal court has ordered the release of the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, who has been in isolation almost without pause for 43 years. Albert Woodfox, the…

Clear new laws are needed to cover security services' powers to monitor online activity, the UK's terror watchdog has said. David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the UK needed "comprehensive and comprehensible" intrusive powers rules. Existing legislation was…

A real human brain is displayed in the 2001 interactive exhibit “Brain: The World Inside Your Head” at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building in Washington. (Andrea Bruce Woodall/The Washington Post) The sickness spread at funerals. The Fore people, a once-isolated tribe in eastern Papua New…

It didn’t get a mention in Apple’s big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple’s developer documentation lies perhaps the most important item of all to the news industry. Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9. Adblocking —…

Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and a group of Democrats have proposed the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, legislation that would require all guns to contain enough metal to be detected by metal detectors and X-Ray machines at checkpoints and airports. The legislation is aimed squarely at 3D…

Matter A male skeleton associated with the Yamnaya culture near Samara, Russia. Credit Pavel Kuznetsov For centuries, archaeologists have reconstructed the early history of Europe by digging up ancient settlements and examining the items that their inhabitants left behind. More recently, researchers…

Sir Christopher Lee , known as the master of horror, has died at the age of 93 after being hospitalised for respiratory problems and heart failure. The veteran actor, immortalised in films from Dracula to The Wicker Man, and via James Bond villainy to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, died at 8.30am on…

State of the Art Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief, at the company’s developer conference on Monday. In a speech, he criticized data mining, but glossed over Apple’s role. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times Timothy D. Cook , Apple ’s chief executive, delivered a speech last week that raised some…

Fed Chairman Faces Questions on Slowing Economy, Trump Criticism Yellen Says Trump Doesn’t Understand Economic Policy Fed’s Clarida Highlights Risks to Economic Growth From Abroad Trump’s Retreat on Tariffs May Help Keep Inflation Pressure at Bay, Report Says U.K. Labour Party Would Back Second…

sarah knight Jun 10, 2015 (And so can you!) Today was my last day as a senior editor at a major publishing company, a little over five years after starting in this particular job and fifteen years into a career I once thought I wanted more than anything else. As it turns out, what I really want more…

Salinas, Calif. – A brutal attack on a mentally ill man by Salinas police was caught on cell phone video Friday. The graphic video shows officers relentlessly beating a man on the ground with batons. Police claim Jose Velasco, 28, was attempting to shove his mother into oncoming traffic. However, a…

Jesus casts the moneychangers out of the Temple (Shutterstock) During the Great Depression, big business needed rebranding. Blamed for the crash, belittled in the press, and beset by the New Deal’s regulatory state, corporate leaders decided they had to improve their image, and soon. “The public…

Rupert Murdoch, pictured with sons James and Lachlan, is planning to step down as chief executive of 21st Century Fox.Photograph: Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP Rupert Murdoch has moved to ensure the future of his dynasty by putting his two sons at the top of 21st Century Fox while relinquishing the…

The always brilliant Ray Bradbury, one of the greatest sci-fi writers in history, talks with Merv about the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Steven Spielberg, his mission as a writer, the future of mankind, and ends by reading from his poem "If Only We Had Taller Been" from his collection…

For the first time ever a computer has managed to develop a new scientific theory using only its artificial intelligence, and with no help from human beings. Computer scientists and biologists from Tufts University programmed the computer so that it was able to develop a theory independently when it…

What do we call me? I’m a 26-year-old writer who lives in a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn. I’m a straight white man with a single-speed bike and a mustache. I studied liberal arts in college, and I have ideas about stuff, you guys. Millennial? Hipster? Yuppie? All of these, or none? We don’t…

A mysterious little book called Iterating Grace is floating around San Francisco right now. At least a dozen people have received the book in the mail—or in my case, by secret hand-delivery to my house . (Which is a little creepy.) The artifact itself consists of a 2,001-word story interspersed with…

Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You December 18, 2018 By Ken White Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law School professor and successful trial and appellate lawyer, is lying to you. He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for…

Can your birth month predict disease risk? Columbia University scientists have developed a computational method to investigate the relationship between birth month and disease risk. The researchers used this algorithm to examine New York City medical databases and found 55 diseases that correlated…

The New Health Care Credit Juliette Borda One weekend afternoon a couple of years ago, while turning a page of the book I was reading to my daughters, I fell asleep. That’s when I knew it was time to do something about my insomnia. Data, not pills, was my path to relief. Insomnia is common. About 30…

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There is a mythic Calvin And Hobbes strip that’s been bouncing around the internet for years. No one’s quite sure where it came from or who’s responsible for it. Part of its mystery is likely because it’s purported to be the lost final installment of the series, drawn by Bill Watterson himself. In…

One day last spring, near an old rural cemetery in southern Brazil , a black man named Marcelo Gomes held up the corners of a Confederate flag to pose for a cell-phone photo. After the picture was taken, Gomes said he saw no problem with a black man paying homage to the history of the Confederate…

Loading... Stress COMMENT 8.95 BUY COPIES Loading... Executive Summary Mindfulness is a buzzword in the business world, but many don’t know that the hype is backed by hard science. A 2011 study of participants who completed an eight-week mindfulness program found that the density of participants’…

You can almost hear the clanking of armor and the clash of swords from Spotify as it gears up to go head-to-head with Apple for dominance in the streaming music industry. And since every army needs a hoard of gold to finance such a battle, the company just boosted its coffers with a massive $526…

fullscreen This is the first of several dispatches from Cuba by Gothamist's Lauren Evans and photographer Tod Seelie. It's 10 p.m. on a Saturday night in Havana, and the air outside is hot and stagnant. Dozens of frikis —the name given to Cuba's punks, metalheads, and anyone who doesn't comport with…

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia have discovered yet another new nation-state attack attributed to members of the infamous Stuxnet and Duqu gang. But this time the perpetrators were hiding in plain sight—inside the security firm’s own networks. Kaspersky says the attackers became entrenched in…

Op-Ed Contributor China’s Troubling Robot Revolution Credit Kristian Hammerstad OVER the last decade, China has become, in the eyes of much of the world, a job-eating monster, consuming entire industries with its seemingly limitless supply of low-wage workers. But the reality is that China is now…

We hates us some poor people. First, they insist on being poor when it is so easy to not be poor. They do things like buy expensive designer belts and $2500 luxury handbags. To be fair, this isn’t about Eroll Louis. His is a belief held by many people, including lots of black people , poor people,…