The Morning After: Surface Duo ships September 10th for $1,399

Early Tuesday morning, a Microsoft blog post popped up revealing pricing and other details for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android device. The $1,400 handheld will go on sale September 10th, complete with its “revolutionary” 360-degree hinge that ena…

States Have 83 Days To Figure Out How To Get Absentee Voting Right

Almost every state has held a mid-pandemic primary that could show how to fix mail-in voting before the Nov. election.

Alan Menken On Losing Disney Lyricist Howard Ashman To AIDS: ‘It Was Crushing’

The documentary “Howard” celebrates the Oscar winner behind “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast.”

Fashion And Beauty Industries Have A Huge, Invisible Environmental Cost

Clothing and beauty companies can have a terrible impact on wildlife, but these brands are working to tackle that.

3 Quick And Easy Vegan Recipes That’ll Make You A Believer In Plant-Based Food

One of Instagram’s most popular food bloggers shares three plant-based recipes from her latest cookbook.

Tanker That Caused Mauritius Oil Spill Splits In Half, Sending More Fuel Into Indian Ocean

Locals are trying to clean up the oil spill after the MV Wakashio struck a coral reef and ran aground.

Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ Gets Coronavirus Remix After Thousands Attend S.D. Concert

“Hey now, we’re contagious, we’re in Sturgis, no mask,” the band appears to sing in the spoof “Late Show” video.

Every ‘Squad’ Member Won Her Primary

Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are virtually certain to head back to Congress.

Florida Sheriff Bans Masks As State's Covid-19 Death Toll Breaks New Daily Record

Billy Woods, the sheriff of central Florida’s Marion County, banned masks for all deputies and visitors to the sheriff’s office starting Tuesday, according to a new report from the Ocala Star Banner—a strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic that’s still wildly out of control.

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Russia’s claim of world’s first coronavirus vaccine raises alarms

The world has more or less gotten used to the fact of the COVID-19 coronavirus plaguing almost all countries even as some of those continue to struggle to keep their infection numbers and, worse, death tolls in check. What was previously a race to bring order to a suddenly chaotic world has now become a race to find a cure … Continue reading