A filmmaker drowned in a Montana lake while shooting a video for a prospective US Senate candidate, authorities said. Jesse Hubbell, 40, and wannabe lawmaker John Mues were scuba diving in at least 60-foot-deep water in Canyon Ferry Lake on Monday when Hubbell went under. Mues tried to help, to no avail. The men were Read more about Filmmaker drowns while shooting video for US Senate candidate[…]
In 2013, Amy Krekelberg received an unsettling notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources: An employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state, mostly women. Krekelberg learned that she was one of them. When Krekelberg asked for an audit of accesses to her Read more about Minnesota Cop Awarded $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data[…]
Inside Orlando's Amway Center on Tuesday, President Donald Trump officially announced his bid for reelection. "We're going to keep on fighting for every man, woman, and child across this land," he said to the roar of some 20,000 supporters. He was in trademark form: bullish and predictably smug, spouting falsehoods about unemployment, healthcare, and trade Read more about Depth of Field: The Metaphor of Trump and the MAGA Hat[…]
“Police should enforce the law — they shouldn’t enforce the law in schools as a matter of course,” says Chancellor Richard Carranza. Huh? This was Carranza’s “explanation” at a press conference announcing yet another weakening of the discipline code, with suspensions now limited to 20 days, max, in all but the most serious cases. Mayor Read more about De Blasio’s latest push to make schools less safe[…]
The main events This is no ordinary Pride month in New York. The city is hosting WorldPride 2019 — the first US edition of the global celebration of LGBTQ rights — and also honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which gave birth to the gay rights movement from the streets of Greenwich Village. Read more about The best Pride 2019 events in New York City[…]
That’s wild — but that’s not a wing! A Houston woman says her Los Angeles vacation got off to a sickening start when a live rat fell from the ceiling onto her table at a Buffalo Wild Wings in the city’s Westchester section. Alisha Kent Norman posted photos of her nauseating Thursday encounter on Facebook, Read more about Woman says rat fell from ceiling onto table at Buffalo Wild Wings[…]
When you pay premium prices, you expect a premium product — but that’s not necessarily the case with bottled water. California nonprofit Center for Environmental Health has revealed that water bottle brands Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Starkey, owned by Whole Foods, contain levels of highly toxic arsenic that are above the legal Read more about Arsenic found in bottled water sold at Whole Foods, Walmart, Target[…]
For the 26 million people who watched Friends in the mid-’90s, Jon Favreau was Pete Becker. Not the star filmmaker who would make Elf a holiday classic; or who’d launch the Marvel juggernaut by directing Iron Man; or who’d update The Jungle Book for the CGI generation. Just Becker, a tech whiz who—before wooing Monica Read more about Disney's New <em>Lion King</em> Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema[…]
Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED's pop culture news roundup. What's been happening in the world of entertainment? For one, Avengers: Endgame is getting re-released to theaters with some new footage. For another, writer/director/producer Janet Mock is going to Netflix. And finally, Pixar has a new movie slated for 2020 and Read more about <em>Avengers: Endgame</em> Is Getting Re-Released With Some 'Surprises'[…]
Inside Orlando's Amway Center on Tuesday, President Donald Trump officially announced his bid for reelection. "We're going to keep on fighting for every man, woman, and child across this land," he said to the roar of some 20,000 supporters. He was in trademark form: bullish and predictably smug, spouting falsehoods about unemployment, healthcare, and trade Read more about Depth of Field: The Metaphor of Trump and the MAGA Hat[…]