Play buttonWilco New Mix: Bon Iver, Brian Eno, Wilco, Khruangbin And MoreNPR - Bob BoilenI had so many new songs to share; I didn't want to split the show with a co-host. I have some thrilling discoveries, but I begin the show with an artist we've been covering all these 20-plus years of Songs
Play buttonWilco Wilco Announces New Album, Shares 'Love Is Everywhere (Beware)'NPR - Robin HiltonWilco has announced it'll release the band's 11th studio album later this year. Drawing its title from the poetry of Friedrich Schiller — and Beethoven's Ninth symphony — Wilco's Ode to Joy will feature
Jacob Zuma Former South African leader Jacob Zuma cries conspiracy during inquiry into state captureThe Telegraph - By Roland Oliphant and Peta ThornycroftFormer South African president Jacob Zuma claimed he is the victim of a conspiracy as he testified for the first time in front of a judicial commission investigating allegations of massive corruption his
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson admits he doesn't know the detail of his Brexit plan Bstuff.co.nz - Alex Morales and Stuart Biggs UK leadership front-runner Boris Johnson admitted that he did not know the full details of an international trade rule that he is proposing as a …
Alexander Acosta Trump's Record Of Ethically Tainted Cabinet Departures Rises With Acosta's ExitHuffPost - Paul BlumenthalNo other U.S. president has lost so many Cabinet members in his first term to ethics issues. President Donald Trump has lost more of his Cabinet secretaries to corruption and other ethics concerns in first
Tom Steyer Why do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America's great new hope?The Guardian - Nathan RobinsonThe past week saw both the passing of Ross Perot and the entry of Tom Steyer into the presidential race. It’s fitting that the two events should coincide – as one billionaire presidential candidate leaves
News Drop in Chinese imports of U.S. goods shows trade war damage spreadingNBC News - Martha C. WhiteNewly released economic data shows that tit-for-tat tariffs are prompting China to buy from other countries, instead of the U.S. Chinese demand for American goods has tanked — evidence that economic damage
Chess Chess grandmaster accused of cheating after using phone on toilet during tournamentThe Telegraph - By Leon WatsonThe world of elite chess has been engulfed in a cheating scandal after a picture emerged of a top grandmaster sat on a toilet allegedly using a mobile phone to cheat. Police are investigating after Igors
Science How Do You Put a Plane Engine in a Car?scientificamerican.com - John Fialka, E&E News DENVER—Suppose you have an idea for a cleaner, simpler and more energy-efficient internal combustion engine for trucks and cars. It was inspired by …
Technology Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being releasedMIT Technology Review - Will Knight Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and …
Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein hires third legal team as 'dream team' of lawyers fade awayThe Telegraph - By Harriet AlexanderHarvey Weinstein was described as being “impossible to work with” by his legal team, it was claimed on Thursday, as the film producer was granted judicial approval to replace his lawyers once again - he
Suicide Teens are increasingly depressed, anxious, and suicidal. How can we help?Vox - Brian ResnickHere are some numbers we need to reckon with: the number of suicide deaths in people ages 15 to 24, over 36 years in the United States. As you can see in this chart, after a steep drop in the late 1990s,
Boeing Five Basic Facts About Boeing Missing From Coverage Of the 737 MAX StoryForbes - Loren ThompsonThe tragic loss of two Boeing 737 MAX airliners has spawned an orgy of negative media coverage, much of it focused on the supposed failings of the world’s biggest aerospace company. What has largely gone
Culture The best female masturbation positions that aren't like the ones you see in pornMashable - Rachel ThompsonPorn isn't exactly famed for its realism. Women masturbate with legs splayed and backs arched, orgasming after a few minutes of frantic rubbing and moaning. But in reality, those positions aren't necessarily
Bon Iver Bon Iver Announce The New Album ‘i,i’ With Two Songs That Honor The Group’s Past And PresentUPROXX - Derrick RossignolFor the past month or so, there has been pretty concrete evidence suggesting that a new Bon Iver album is on the way. At the start of June, he shared a pair of new songs, “Hey, Ma” and “U (Man Like,” with
Madagascar Which country has the fastest internet in Africa?Quartz - Yomi KazeemIt’ll take over 22 hours to download a 5-gigabyte movie in Equatorial Guinea, the worst ranked African country whereas in Taiwan, top of the broadband speed league, it will take only eight minutes. The
ObamaCare Trump's real 2020 weakness: healthcareThe Guardian - Lloyd GreenUnemployment and inflation are low. America growls, but its sword is sheathed. Donald Trump should be preaching peace and prosperity. Instead, the president appears determined to make his re-election about
Vatican She disappeared at 15. A cryptic tip-off in the Vatican could hold the key to her caseCNN - By Sheena McKenzie, Livia Borghese and Hada Messia, CNNRome (CNN) — On a sweltering summer's evening in 1983, a 15-year-old girl packed her flute and walked out of her family home inside the vast walls of Vatican City. Emanuela Orlandi had made this journey,
World News France online hate speech law to force social media sites to act quicklyThe Guardian - Agence France-Presse in ParisFrench MPs have passed a landmark law to fight online hate speech that will oblige social media networks to remove offending content within 24 hours and create a new button to enable users to flag abuse.
UK News MPs vote to extend same-sex marriage to Northern IrelandThe Guardian - Peter Walker, and Rory Carroll in DublinMPs have voted resoundingly to extend same-sex marriage and access to abortion to Northern Ireland, bringing the region into line with the rest of the UK on the two significant social issues. The two votes,
Lifestyle (UK) Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on FacebookThe Guardian - Adrienne MateiYou know it when you see it: a couple of extra commas following a thought, a private message or search entry accidentally made public, a comment on a friend’s new profile picture telling them to “say to
U.S. Politics Donald Trump’s origin story suffers another severe blowThe Washington Post - By Aaron BlakeThe myth of Donald Trump, as written by Donald Trump, took yet another blow Monday. The Washington Post’s Michael Kranish reported that Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School
Rap & Hip-Hop Police say man cut Arizona teen's throat because rap music made him feel unsafeCNN - By David Williams, CNN(CNN) — Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old in the throat at an Arizona convenience store told them he felt threatened because the teen had been listening to rap music. The incident
U.S. Politics Four-star admiral set to lead Navy rejects job and retires amid judgment concernsAxios - Rebecca Falconer Adm. William Moran, the Navy’s choice to become the Chief of Naval Operations and join the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has rejected the position and …
A man pretending to be a police officer was arrested after he pulled over a deputy, authorities saidCNN - By Christina Maxouris, CNN(CNN) — A Florida man allegedly pretending to be a police officer pulled over the wrong car. Barry Lee Hastings Jr., was driving a black vehicle with white and amber lights late Thursday night when he
Dark Matter New Method For Tracing Dark Matter Reveals Its Location, Abundance As Never BeforeForbes - Ethan SiegelDark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in every massive, large-scale cosmic structure. It neither emits nor absorbs light like normal matter does, but its
Mobile Technology FBI and ICE use DMV photos as 'gold mine' for facial recognition dataEngadget - Jon FingasCities and companies might be turning away from facial recognition, but federal agents are embracing it -- whether or not the public is fully aware of what's happening. Georgetown Law researchers and Washington
Uber London's minicabs have a cunning plan to beat Uber at its own gameWired UK - Amit Katwala Goldline Executive Travel was founded in the late 1960s, and slowly grew into east London’s biggest private hire firm, with coaches, minibuses and a …
Uranium A beginner's guide to enriching uraniumAl Jazeera - James BrownsellIran says it will begin enriching uranium beyond the 3.67 percent limit set in its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Iran has always insisted it pursued a peaceful nuclear programme, even as the United
News She wrote a poem about a vagina. It landed her in jailCNN - By Alice McCool, for CNNKampala, Uganda (CNN) — How do women get men who are standing in the way of gender equality to listen to them? Grab them by their genitalia. That's the radical suggestion offered by jailed Ugandan feminist
