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Joe Rogan Fans Feared a Hit Piece. This Isn&#39;t One
'Maybe There Were 
Two Joe Rogans'
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Jul 3, 2021 8:00 AM CDT

'Maybe There Were Two Joe Rogans'

'New York Times' takes a long look at the controversial podcaster

(Newser) - When the Joe Rogan universe learned the New York Times was working on a story about him, the word went out that a "hit piece" was in progress. Rogan himself, who typically avoids interviews with print media, did not grant one to Matt Flegenheimer. Now that the story is...

He Thought He Found Love in Ukraine. Then a 'Surreal' Twist

UK man tells BBC how he lost $250K in a Ukraine scam

(Newser) - "I was such an idiot." So declares a UK man identified only as James as he explains to the BBC how he became the victim of a $250,000 scam. The 52-year-old charity worker was in Ukraine when his translator set him up on a blind date with...

'Now It's All Over,' Said Her Mom. But the Teen Survived

Juliane Diller, nee Koepke, talks to the 'New York Times' about the 1971 plane crash

(Newser) - Juliane Diller, nee Koepke, hasn't made public comments about the accident in many years, writes Franz Lidz for the New York Times . She does with Lidz, recounting the Christmas Eve 1971 plane crash that killed 91 people; there were 92 aboard. The then-17-year-old and her mother had left Lima,...

How Peter Thiel Used Loophole to Amass $5B in His Roth IRA

It amounts to 'Bermuda-style tax haven right here in the US'

(Newser) - ProPublica is continuing its investigative series on how the richest of the rich avoid paying taxes, and the latest story is surprising in that it revolves around a "relatively humdrum retirement" tool—the Roth IRA. The idea behind the Roth is that modest earners can sock away money...

His Story Sums Up the Agony, Ecstasy of the Gig Economy

Ecstasy in 2014, at least

(Newser) - "To understand how a man could arrive at the point where he abandons his children to chase a phone, you might want to follow him on a journey." So writes Lauren Smiley in a lengthy piece for Wired about Jeffrey Fang, a "ride-hailing legend" who in 2014...

The Ship Captain Died in April. A 'Grotesque Odyssey' Followed

No port was willing to accept the captain's body due to COVID restrictions

(Newser) - Shortly after setting sail on a cargo ship, a 61-year-old Italian sea captain came down with symptoms consistent with COVID. That was April 2, 2021. On April 8, MV Ital Libera captain Angelo Capurro was dead and his crew stranded in Indonesian waters. In a piece for CNN , Teele Rebane...

Ethel Rosenberg&#39;s Sons Want Truth About Mom Known
Ethel Rosenberg's Sons
Want Truth About Mom Known
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Jun 26, 2021 8:00 AM CDT

Ethel Rosenberg's Sons Want Truth About Mom Known

She was executed for spying in 1953; they are fighting for her to be exonerated

(Newser) - When his mother called to tell him she had been arrested and couldn't come home, as had happened to his father the month prior, Michael Meeropol screamed into the phone. He was just 7. The boy's last name at the time—the summer of 1950—was Rosenberg. He...

This Airbnb Team Steps In When Horrible Things Happen

It has a 100-person safety team that spends big money to make problems go away

(Newser) - "Agents have had to hire body-fluid crews to clean blood off carpets, arrange for contractors to cover bullet holes in walls, and deal with hosts who discover dismembered human remains." That's a sentence in a lengthy Bloomberg Businessweek piece by Olivia Carville about agents who work for...

Peloton&#39;s Rides Are More Scripted Than You Think
Peloton's Rides Are More
Scripted Than You Think
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Jun 20, 2021 1:45 PM CDT

Peloton's Rides Are More Scripted Than You Think

'Hollywood Reporter' looks at how the company aims to be the 'Netflix of wellness'

(Newser) - Peloton's fortunes have soared during the pandemic, with more people than ever shelling out $2,000 or more for an exercise bike and riding along with instructors on video. But what happens as the world reopens and people aren't stuck at home as much? The Hollywood Reporter takes...

A New York Times Journalist Shares His Own Story This Time

Nicholas Casey's father stopped visiting when the boy was just 7

(Newser) - In a long and fascinating piece about identity for the New York Times Magazine , Times' Madrid bureau chief Nicholas Casey writes that "telling the stories of others came more easily." Telling his own story, far less so. He was born to a white woman who spent a single...

Inside the Downfall of &#39;Tiger Mom&#39; and Husband
How 'Tiger Mom' and Her
Husband Fell From Grace
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Jun 20, 2021 6:01 AM CDT

How 'Tiger Mom' and Her Husband Fell From Grace

Inside Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld's downfall in the world of Yale Law

(Newser) - Amy Chua, aka the "tiger mom" from her controversial book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , used to sit atop the Yale Law School social stratosphere alongside her husband and fellow Yale professor, Jed Rubenfeld. Known as "Chubenfeld," the couple was also famous for being quite connected...

What's Set to Be 'Biggest-Selling Medicine Ever' Had Bumpy Start

Inside Pfizer's journey to manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine

(Newser) - Pfizer is a household name thanks to its COVID-19 vaccine, of which it expects to produce as many as 3 billion doses this year. That would translate into $26 billion in sales, which would make it the "biggest-selling medicine ever," reports Christopher Rowland in a lengthy piece for...

A New Jersey Detective Had a Hunch About a Serial Killer

Robert Anzilotti spent years getting Richard Cottingham to confess to more murders

(Newser) - He was dubbed the "Torso Killer" for the string of dead prostitutes—some with their heads and hands cut off—left in hotels in Manhattan and New Jersey over a 6-month period over 1979 and 1980. New Jersey family man Richard Cottingham was convicted in the early '80s...

Meet the &#39;Sedition Hunters&#39;
Meet the 'Sedition Hunters'
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Jun 13, 2021 4:35 PM CDT

Meet the 'Sedition Hunters'

Bloomberg looks at the informal network of people identifying rioters at the Capitol

(Newser) - The revolution was televised. Or at least live-streamed. And now a network of online amateur sleuths is dedicated to identifying those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. In a profile at Bloomberg Businessweek , David Yaffe-Bellany talks to several of these "sedition hunters" about their mission to pore over...

He Changed Bowling by Looking Inside the Ball
He Changed Bowling
by Looking Inside the Ball
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Jun 6, 2021 10:55 AM CDT

He Changed Bowling by Looking Inside the Ball

'Wired' profiles designer Mo Pinel

(Newser) - Just-for-fun bowlers may not give too much thought to the ball itself, beyond making sure their fingers fit inside the holes. Serious bowlers know the ball matters big time, and that the 60 feet it travels down the lane toward the pins is nothing short of a "physics puzzle,...

The 13-Year-Old Was New to Diving, Made a Big Find

Outside Online has the story of a prosthetic leg lost and found

(Newser) - Sebastian Morris was hoping to do as his father had done. The 13-year-old Florida boy had been captivated by some of the finds his dad uncovered as a commercial diver, including a 300-year-old shipwreck he discovered in the Black Sea in 2019. On May 4, 2020, the father and son...

Ohio Teen Trying to Escape Her Pimp Paid Steep Price

'Washington Post' takes a deep dive into Alexis Martin's case

(Newser) - When Alexis Martin was sentenced to 21 years to life for her role in a robbery that ended in murder, a judge described her as "working" for the "escort" business run by Angelo Kerney, the man who police found dead in November 2013. Except as Jessica Contrera writes...

A Cryptocurrency CEO Died at 30, Then Things Got Weirder

QuadrigaCX had hundreds of millions of dollars—or did it?

(Newser) - When Gerald Cotten was in high school, the Ontario teen was known to hustle to get his work done in class so that he could spend any free time getting around the school's firewalls to play online games. If that sounds like the origin story of a future internet...

The Real Johnny Knoxville Might Surprise You
The Real Johnny Knoxville
Might Surprise You
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Jun 5, 2021 7:30 AM CDT

The Real Johnny Knoxville Might Surprise You

50-year-old is calling it quits after the 4th 'Jackass' film comes out this fall

(Newser) - PJ Clapp is now 50 years old, which may not mean much to anyone until they learn that Clapp's stage name is Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame. In a GQ profile by Sam Schube, Knoxville says he is calling an end to his Jackass career after the fourth film...

Harry Reid's Secret UFO Jaunts Were Just the Start

Politico unpacks how ex-senator, Blink-182 founder brought a taboo topic into mainstream DC politics

(Newser) - A government analysis on UFOs is due out next month from US intel agencies and the Defense Department, the first time in more than a half-century that the executive branch will release a public accounting of the once-taboo topic—and much of the thanks for that can be traced back...

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