Daily Briefing
Deep buzz for the content-deprived
Every weekday, while you get showered and dressed, we pluck these dewy- fresh, breaking stories from the info-clogged byways of the datasphere. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and stoke up on everything you need to know, or at least enough to fake it.
A week after rebels broke into Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s former stronghold, much of its territory remains divided into fiefs, each controlled by quasi-independent brigades representing different geographic areas of the country. And the spray paint they use to mark their territory tells the story of a looming leadership crisis in the capital, Tripoli...
Perry has begun to show signs of starting a religious auction on the right, with himself as the highest bidder...
It's a Saturday evening, and 45 teenagers have gathered here to watch Richard Eng perform. Some days he'll play to three or four times as many kids, his high cheekbones and bright teeth projected on flat-screen TVs. Tonight, the bangs that sweep in a copper-streaked diagonal across his forehead are frozen in place with what looks to be a copious amount of hair spray...
For the artist Marco Brambilla, any debate over the origins of life is wasted breath. God didn’t create humankind, nor did it evolve by Darwinian means. Hollywood made it happen. And, in typical Hollywood style, Brambilla is remaking it — in 3-D. He’s also cut the story of human history down to about 90 seconds...
It was a Tuesday in July and I was sitting in the "cartoonist lounge" on the 20th floor of the Condé Nast building in Times Square with an envelope containing 10 drawings: my first cartoon submissions to The New Yorker. Every Tuesday is judgment day, the day Robert Mankoff, the magazine's cartoon editor, meets with cartoonists face to face...
It’s no wonder that when taking on the former vice president’s memoir, the critical cartoonist is likely to exploit one of the few most ready Cheney associations that the general public holds, rightly or wrongly...
When the International Space Station's crew departs this fall, the station could be left unmanned. Flights there have been halted until the cause of last wek's spae freighter crash is determined...
Vermont towns battled floods of historic proportions, utility crews struggled to restore power to 5 million people along the East Coast, and big-city commuters coped with transit-system disruptions Monday as the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene finally spun into Canada....
One might have thought that the E.C.B. would learn from the experience. No such luck...
Hurricane Irene is one of the biggest hurricanes to hit the U.S. East Coast in years. But how much do you know about these powerful storms?...
