Month: October 2019

Millennials are gaining power at all levels of American government: Enter, Katie Hill. Millennials are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape of technology, sex, and power: Exit, Katie Hill. Last year, Hill was one of twenty millennials, most of them women, who won seats in Congress, increasing the generation’s representation sixfold in one cycle and giving…

Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race with one key takeaway every weekday and a wrap-up each weekend. Reminder: There are 97 days until the Iowa caucuses and 371 days until the 2020 election. As the impeachment battle rages in Washington, Democrats’ position appears to be improving up and down…

A top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes has been providing conservative politicians and journalists with information—and misinformation—about the anonymous whistleblower who triggered the biggest crisis of Donald Trump’s presidency, two knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast. Derek Harvey, who works for Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, has provided notes for House…

Grandmother killed by inadvertently made ‘pipe bomb’ at gender-reveal party: Sheriff originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A soon-to-be grandmother killed at a gender-reveal party in Iowa was struck in the head by shrapnel after her family inadvertently created a “pipe bomb” to announce the impending baby news, authorities said. Pamela Kreimeyer, 66, was killed on Saturday…

HECTOR, Ark. — In early December, if nothing else changes, Daniel Lewis Lee will be the first federal prisoner put to death in nearly two decades. He was sentenced 20 years ago after being convicted — along with another man, both white supremacists on the hunt for guns and cash — of taping bags over…

The 360 shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories. What’s happening: President Trump on Sunday announced that American soldiers had carried out a raid in Syria that resulted in the death of the Islamic State terror group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “Last night the United States brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader…

Share 30th Oct 2019 How does one reinvent the wheel of an ancient art harking back to 4000BC? Just ask 39-year-old Marissa McInturff, the ceramicist who threw caution to the wind and replaced it with clay when she moved to New York from Barcelona in 2014  after meeting her now-husband on a work trip in…

Share 30th Oct 2019 The rain fell relentlessly over the garden at the Quai Branly Museum for Lanvin’s spring/summer 2020 show. It poured on the models in their loosely tailored summer outfits. And it flowed over the transparent plastic umbrellas and waterproof capes provided for the audience seated in the soggy venue. Except that the…

Share 30th Oct 2019 A-Cold-Wall, Blindness, Bode and Richard Malone are among the 10 finalists shortlisted for the International Woolmark Prize 2020, one of the world’s most prestigious emerging talent programmes. Selected from more than 300 entries, across nearly 50 countries, the nominees follow in the footsteps of previous recipients including Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint…

Share 30th Oct 2019 Earlier this month Prince Harry issued a rare statement about his wife, Meghan Markle’s, treatment by the media. In the statement, published on the royal couple’s website, the duke wrote about the “ruthless campaign” he says the British tabloid press have been running against his wife and revealed that they are…