Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox during the Iowa State Fair on August 11, 2019.
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Apple’s The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston, looks dour and joyless in its first trailer
Hello Sunshine/Apple, Inc. The Apple TV+ exclusive will pit Aniston against Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell in a battle for the anchor chair. It’s been
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer involved in Eric Garner’s death, has been fired
Officer Daniel Pantaleo prior to an NYPD administrative trial in May 2019. Pantaleo was terminated by NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill on August 19, 2019. |
The US government’s battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained
Kevin Frayer/Getty Images The US has long expressed concerns about Huawei and its ties to the Chinese government. The Trump administration is putting the squeeze
“This is 2019 and not 1819”: mounted police leading a black man by a rope sparks outrage
A stock photo of officers on horseback. The police department in Galveston, Texas, is facing criticism after a viral photo showed horseback mounted police officers
What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals
Danny McBride as Jesse Gemstone in The Righteous Gemstones. | HBO Danny McBride’s new show satirizes — and sympathizes with — a family of televangelists.
Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happen
Container ships being loaded in the Port of Los Angeles . | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Top White House economic advisers are emphatically saying
The deadliest attack of the year in Kabul bodes poorly for the US-Taliban deal
An Afghan security official keeps watch over the hall attacked by a suicide bomber during a wedding on August 18, 2019. | Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty
This one scene explains what makes Netflix’s Mindhunter so scary
Holden Ford and Bill Tench are hunting minds yet again in season two of Mindhunter. | Netflix Hint: It’s all the things you don’t see.
Hong Kong protesters show no sign of backing down in the face of countless threats
Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on August 18, 2019. | Fuat Kabakci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers took