May 12, 2022 Archive May 2022

Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role aren't about canon but excellence

A new wave of politicians are shedding the misconception that cooking and politics don't mix

How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win)

Facing shortages, chemists propose "mining" electronic waste for rare earth metals

"Our Father": the 5 creepiest moments from Netflix's harrowing fertility fraud documentary

This Trump election lawyer and "Big Lie" promoter owes the IRS more than $100,000

Librarians push back against book-banning

Jen Psaki and the Biden White House: When "almost normal" isn't quite good enough

White nationalists get religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement

Sanitation workers in India forced to wear GPS watches

The Love Canal disaster: Anatomy of an environmental tragedy

Louisana's abortion criminalization bill goes too far for even the state's top anti-choice group

DeSantis-appointed judge says his map is an unconstitutional assault on Black voting power

Marjorie Taylor Greene trades Twitter blows with fellow Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw

Legal expert finds “fatal flaw” in Samuel Alito’s leaked abortion opinion

“Totally unprecedented”: Feds probe “mysterious" financial ties among Trump-linked dark money groups

Susan Collins goes full MAGA on abortion

Court revives Texas GOP law banning social networks from booting users over “anti-conservative bias”

Steve Schmidt: GOP strategist’s ties to Russia nearly led to 2008 presidential campaign “fistfights”

Texas court says it was wrong to sentence Black woman to 5 years in prison for “illegal” voting

16 easy dessert recipes with 5 ingredients or less

The easiest way to melt chocolate chips is right under your nose

Feds launch new grand jury investigation into how classified docs ended up at Trump's Mar-a-Lago

Ewan McGregor rewatched the Star Wars prequels before "Obi-Wan Kenobi"

Many states' abortion bans have life-saving "exceptions." Experts doubt they will work as intended

Have you tried the new Wordle-style game for foodies? Martha Stewart thinks Phoodle is "lots of fun"

Goop's $10, bejeweled, alpaca-wool diaper sparks outrage — and turn out to be a publicity stunt

HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights

James Cromwell, "Succession" star, glues himself to Starbucks counter in protest of milk surcharges

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas of House Republicans is an escalation — but is it too little, too late?

"You don't have a vagina": Whoopi Goldberg takes Joe Manchin to task on abortion rights

New COVID sub-variant, dubbed BA.2.12.1, is rapidly becoming dominant in US