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This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by editor Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here.There are TV series that have wild twists, and then there is The Morning Show. It’s just on a different level, like saying… Continue reading Bless the Beautiful, Bonkers Twists of ‘The Morning Show’

This year’s membership drive for the faculty union at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) hit a stumbling block late last month, as the school’s administration shuttered an on-campus informational table set up by the organization and two state-level union representatives were taken away in handcuffs.The HACC Education Association, which was formed in April 2022 and… Continue reading College Campus Censorship Comes for the Faculty Unions

On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, the fallout continues for Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert after her embarrassing ejection from a performance of “Beetlejuice.” Updated Sep. 15, 2023 3:29AM EDT / Published Sep. 15, 2023 12:41AM EDT opinionPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Nothing says… Continue reading Lauren Boebert Proves the One Thing She Needs is Class

Tucked deep within President Biden’s landmark climate bill sits a seemingly small tweak to IRS rules that, for the first time, lets companies sell their clean energy tax credits.  The change accounts for just a fraction of the 100,000 or so words in the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, which Congress passed in 2022. But… Continue reading This tax tweak is supercharging Biden’s climate agenda

Catastrophic flooding earlier this week in Libya killed at least 10,000 people, with more than 30,000 people displaced, after Storm Daniel pummeled the coast and two dams broke in quick succession. Nearly a quarter of Derna, a coastal city in the eastern corner of Libya, was destroyed in the flooding, with entire blocks of buildings… Continue reading How climate change contributed to the staggering flood death toll in Libya

This story was co-published with Native News Online. When Neil Patterson Jr. was about 7 or 8 years old, he saw a painting called “Gathering Chestnuts,” by Tonawanda Seneca artist Ernest Smith. Patterson didn’t realize that the painting showed a grove of American chestnuts, a tree that had been all but extinct since his great-grandparents’ time.… Continue reading The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of Record High. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to talk about not having fun in the sun. We recently asked Record High readers to tell us about how extreme heat has changed the way they approach travel, outdoor sports, and other recreation. For many of us,… Continue reading The end of summer vacation

Just a few months ago, ex-convicts recruited by the notorious Wagner Group were boasting about plans to take the fight to Europe. Now, it turns out, they’re working as taxi drivers.One enterprising young ex-con has even started his own taxi business using the Wagner brand in Russia’s Novosibirsk region. Valery Bogdanov, with five convictions for… Continue reading Wagner Taxi Company Set up as Ex-Con Fighters Struggle to Find Jobs

Having Prince Harry as your patron has one major drawback, and one that competitors at his Invictus Games event are all too aware of.Published Sep. 14, 2023 7:15AM EDT Thilo Schmuelgen/ ReutersRoyalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday.It is a sad reality… Continue reading Harry’s Pet Project Overshadowed as Royal Support Ebbs Away

The foreign minister of Taiwan has called out Elon Musk directly after the billionaire appeared to suggest the island was an “integral part of China” much like Hawaii is part of the United States.Joseph Wu’s rebuke, in a post late Wednesday on Musk’s own Twitter/X network, followed Musk’s appearance at a tech summit in Los… Continue reading Elon Musk Slammed by Second Country in Disastrous 7 Days