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Bobby McIlvaine Died on 9/11. This Is the Shape Grief Took

Jennifer Senior on how his parents, brother, intended fiancee have coped

(Newser) - "'The only thing I do is 9/11 stuff,' Bob Sr. says. 'My whole basis of everything revolves around the day.'" That's understandable. Bob McIlvaine Sr. lost his 26-year-old son that day, and in a lengthy piece for the Atlantic , Jennifer Senior presents a...

What You Don't Know About the Brazilian Butt Lift

Rebecca Jennings digs in for Vox

(Newser) - Rebecca Jennings promises to delve into "How the Brazilian butt lift went mainstream" in a lengthy piece for Vox , though it's not the how, but the what, that ends up being the most fascinating part of her story. The how isn't that surprising—social media, in large...

Writer's 20-Year Worry: 'Did I Kill the Segway?'

Dan Kois recounts at Slate how his inadvertent leak may have doomed the invention

(Newser) - There was a time, back in early 2001, when the biggest story anywhere revolved around a still-under-wraps invention that promised to change the world. And when this mystery device was finally unveiled later that year, everyone was like, "It's just a scooter?" This, of course, was the Segway,...

World May Not Have Seen the Last of the Gadhafis

New York Times reporter tracks down son Seif, who is plotting a return to power in Libya

(Newser) - A decade ago, the world appeared to be rid of the Gadhafi clan of Libya. Longtime leader Moammar had been ousted and killed during the Arab Spring uprising, and three of his sons were dead as well. Another son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi—his father's presumed successor—was captured by...

Trying to Adopt a Dog Right Now? Good Luck


Now Is Not an Easy Time
to Adopt a Dog
longform
Aug 1, 2021 11:30 AM CDT

Now Is Not an Easy Time to Adopt a Dog

'The Cut' delves into the current difficulty of 'rescuing' a dog

(Newser) - Dog adoptions have been booming since 2020, as people dealt with the prospect of staying home for weeks, then months, on end amid the COVID-19 pandemic—and, as you might have noticed if you were one of the people who recently applied to adopt a rescue animal, getting your hands...

You Know About Emmett Till, but Not About the Barn

In a lengthy piece for the 'Atlantic,' Wright Thompson takes readers there

(Newser) - We know the story of Emmett Till, but the story we know is only a partial one, argues Wright Thompson in a lengthy piece for the Atlantic that revolves around one major gap: the barn in which the 14-year-old was murdered in 1955. Most people asked where Till was killed...

Olympic Runner: My Stalker Posted He Was Coming to Kill Me

Inside Emily Infeld's chilling ordeal

(Newser) - Emily Infeld competed in the 2016 Olympics; she failed to qualify to run the 10,000 meters in Tokyo. What transpired during the years between the two Games is the subject of a lengthy and at times chilling piece for ESPN —she was stalked. Infeld, a bronze medalist at...

In Chess, 'She Has Been the Only One Who Stood a Chance'

'New Yorker' profiles Hou Yifan and explores why so few women rise to the top of the game

(Newser) - The popular Netflix series The Queen's Gambit tells the story of a female chess phenom named Beth Harmon. Harmon, though, is fictional, and in the New Yorker , Louisa Thomas takes a look at why real-life Harmons are so rare. (The world has 1,732 grandmasters, and only 38 of...

Awesome at Hiking, Terrible With Money
Awesome at Hiking,
Terrible With Money
longform
Jul 18, 2021 4:04 PM CDT

Awesome at Hiking, Terrible With Money

'Outside' writer examines why young, outdoorsy types are typically bad with finances

(Newser) - In an essay at Outside magazine, Gloria Liu explores a phenomenon that hits close to home for herself: Young, outdoorsy types tend to be terrible with money. Liu, now in her late 30s, uses herself as Exhibit A, but she notes that many of her friends also fit the description....

They're Called 'Pothunters,' but Some Say 'Grave Robbers'

'Washington Post' explores the 'endless robbing of Native American graves'

(Newser) - In the lingo of their field, they're known as "pothunters." As Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson explains in a lengthy Washington Post article, the term refers to people who might be most charitably described as amateur archeologists. On the other end of the spectrum, they might be called grave...

Tucker Carlson's Bread and Butter: 'White Grievance'

In deep dive into Fox host's history, 'WaPo' explores Carlson's role as the 'voice of white America'

(Newser) - From an outsider's perspective, Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, could be seen as a man of ambition who rose to become one of conservative media's biggest stars, now boasting a nightly audience of nearly 3 million, with millions more fans on social media. From...

Tax Laws Give Sports Owners a 'Financial Magic Trick'

They end up paying lower rates than stadium workers as well as players

(Newser) - ProPublica is out with the latest installment of its series on how the richest Americans avoid paying taxes , and this one focuses on the owners of sports teams. It begins with a look at Los Angeles Clippers owner (and Microsoft co-founder) Steve Ballmer, and an interesting contrast. A concession...

A Reminder: Rosie O'Donnell Was a Total Game-Changer

When it came to daytime talk shows

(Newser) - The woman who changed everything in the talk show world is none other than Rosie O'Donnell, or so Ashley Spencer makes the case in a lengthy piece for Vulture . The Rosie O’Donnell Show launched in 1996 in a way that was, well, different. It wasn't pretaped, for...

The Teen Would Be on the Transplant List —If He Were White

A look into how race factors in to when patients get on the kidney transplant list

(Newser) - "I was immediately taken by Jordan's story," writes Jennifer Tsai, who has been an emergency medicine physician for two years. "It's an illuminating example of how racism is alive and burrowed within medicine." And so in a lengthy piece for Slate she shares it,...

Rittenhouse Case: a 'Vivid Metaphor' for Polarized America

'New Yorker' piece looks at 'opportunists' who hijacked Kenosha suspect's narrative

(Newser) - As Kyle Rittenhouse awaits his November trial for opening fire at an August 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wis., killing two men and injuring a third, the Kenosha News offers two different depictions of the 18-year-old: "Black Lives Matter [supporters] have painted him as a trigger-happy white supremacist," while...

&#39;Stupidly Obvious&#39; Flaw Led to Massive Xbox Fraud
'Stupidly Obvious' Flaw
Led to Massive Xbox Fraud
longform
Jul 10, 2021 8:00 AM CDT

'Stupidly Obvious' Flaw Led to Massive Xbox Fraud

Microsoft engineer was able to generate millions in fake gift-card codes and sell them

(Newser) - The crime was audacious, lucrative, and relatively simple—and the mastermind might have gotten away with it had he not gotten too greedy, too fast. Last year, a Microsoft engineer was imprisoned over fraud related to Xbox gift cards, and Bloomberg now offers an in-depth look at Volodymyr Kvashuk's...

Britney Spears &#39;Never Had a Chance&#39;
Spears' Conservatorship Was
Decided in Just 10 Minutes
INVESTIGATION
Jul 5, 2021 6:55 PM CDT

Spears' Conservatorship Was Decided in Just 10 Minutes

She 'never had a chance,' family friend tells 'New Yorker'

(Newser) - Britney Spears "never had a chance," says former family friend Jacqueline Butcher, one of dozens of sources Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino spoke to in a stunning New Yorker investigation of the 39-year-old's conservatorship agreement. Butcher says she provided testimony when the arrangement was set up after...

The Bank Was on Jupiter St. That Fact Ruined Their Plot

BBC explains how a North Korean hack was foiled because street name set off alarms

(Newser) - Remember the giant hack of Sony Pictures in 2014? A lengthy piece from the BBC makes the case that it was merely a "dry run" for a much larger hack two years later, one resulting in perhaps the most brazen bank heist in history. The FBI has long blamed...

Does iPod Touch Video Tell a Different Story Than Cops Did?

'Time' digs in to the 2013 shooting death of Terrance Franklin

(Newser) - Bodycams weren't a normal part of police gear in 2013, so it's unsurprising that the only view Terrance Franklin's family had into his death in a Minneapolis basement was the word of the five police officers who were on the scene and shot him. Initially, that is....

What It's Like to Discover You Likely Slept With a Serial Killer

Jill McCabe Johnson writes about that very thing for Slate

(Newser) - Jill McCabe Johnson isn't 100% sure that the man she slept with one night as an 18-year-old was Gary Ridgway—more commonly known as the Green River Killer, who had at least 49 victims—but she's pretty close to it. In a lengthy piece for Slate , Johnson recounts...

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