Depression, coupled with an old knee injury, left Ms. Taylor unable to leave her apartment to purchase food. By the end of April, her food stamps had run out and her supplies were low. Thats when she called Childrens Aid, which is supported by The Fund, and her social worker…
Shortly after election results started to roll in, Donald Trump, as expected, claimed an early victory, ramped up his disinformation efforts to discredit the election process, and yesterday filed shaky lawsuits in three states aimed at suppressing votes, while his supporters couldnt decide if they wanted votes to be counted…
As election night ended in the United States, people went to bed still wondering who had won the presidential race, which party would control Congress, and what the future held. But one subject unified the electorate with unexpectedly decisive consistency: drugs. When asked to relax laws around the use of…
The next generation of gaming is set to start next week with the launch of the Xbox Series X and S (Nov. 10), as well as the PlayStation 5 (Nov. 12). The road to get here has been a long one, complete with slow information drops and a disastrous preorder…
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. By Joseph Henrich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 704 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30 IT TAKES MORE than a decent constitution to build a democracy, as anyone who has tried to steer a country out of…
Back in August, we spoke with Malene Barnett, founder of The Black Artists + Designers Guild (BADG), about the work BADG is doing to counter the lack of representation of Black talent and culture in the design industry. Now, as part of the organizations work to center and uplift Black…
Among all of the next-gen features touted for the Xbox Series X (and S), few are more promising than Quick Resume. On paper, Quick Resume grants you the ability to juggle several games in a suspended state at a system level, at which point you can load them in seconds,…
WhatsApp, which began testing its payments service in India with 1 million users in early 2018, can finally start to expand the feature to more users in the world’s second largest internet market. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the body that operates the widely popular UPI payments infrastructure, said…
In September, Disney laid off 28,000 employees, mostly at its two American theme parks. It announced a loss of $4.72 billion in the most recent quarter, covering April through June. Earnings in the companys cable networks division, which is made up mostly of ESPN but also includes properties like the…
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