NEW YORK — Soft, stretchy plastics can make up grocery bags, bubble wrap and more. They're impossible to avoid and harder still to properly dispose of. If thrown in the trash, they can take up to hundreds of years to degrade in landfills and release harmful microplastics into the ...
CANNES, France — Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev sent shock waves through the Cannes Film Festival with a soberly damning crime film about murder and corruption in Russia, set against the conscription of young men into President Vladimir Putin's war with Ukraine. "Minotaur," which ...
WASHINGTON — The Stonewall National Monument, the President's House Site and the Women's Rights National Historic Park are among 11 sites on this year's annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The ...
It's been nearly seven years since there was a new "Star Wars" movie released in theaters and there are lots of ways to do it. "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu," a disjointed off-ramp that lacks the scale and ambition of its sisters, fails the task. As the Mandalorians might say, this is ...
NEW YORK — Amid spring cleaning season, it can be tempting to dismiss housework as drudgery, so dreaded or anxiety-inducing that it's best delegated to others if at all possible. But experts from Zen monks to psychologists say there are mental health benefits to be found in such manual ...
NEW YORK — After writing bestsellers about the military, the oil and gas industry and the state of democracy, Rachel Maddow is now working on a history of the Justice Department. Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, announced Monday that "Department of Fate" will be published Nov. 10, one week after this year's midterm elections, and offer "both a diagnosis and a prescription for the American institution." "As goes DOJ, so goes the republic," the liberal author, podcaster and MS Now host said in a statement issued through Crown. "What DOJ chooses to pursue — and what it ...
