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This morning (Sept. 5), US attorney general Jeff Sessions, a longtime critic of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, announced the Donald Trump administration’s decision to rescind the program. A statement issued shortly after by president Trump echoes much of the announcement, and employs the same rationale for the highly controversial decision as […]

Republicans in the US Congress have for years procrastinated on determining the fate of some 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children. Now president Donald Trump has given them six months to come up with a substitute for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an Obama-era program that allowed […]

When she was a teenager, Gui Lisha routinely skipped classes to play video games at cyber cafés, to the point that her father threatened sending her to rehab for internet addiction. Soon after high school, Gui snuck away from her hometown to join a professional video gaming team. Her father thought that she had fallen […]

In the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, forecasters are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Irma, a category 3 storm that’s in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, currently roughly 625 miles east of the Leeward Islands and heading west. The storm is traveling about 14 miles per hour (22 […]

The sale of cryptographic tokens, a market that has boomed this year, has been deemed an “illegal fundraising practice” by China’s central bank. In a notice published today (in Chinese), the regulator ordered all such offerings to be halted, for exchanges to stop trading in the tokens, and for funds already raised to be returned […]

Love it or hate it, pumpkin spice is back. Although it’s theoretically a fall drink, the flavor has already been popping up in cookies, donuts, cereals, and—as of Sept. 1—Starbucks lattes. It’s much like “the Christmas creep, but orange,” the New York Times declared (paywall). But now, after 14 years on the throne (and Starbucks […]Read More

The following statement was provided by North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Institute. We have edited it to be in plain English and added footnotes for more scientific details on the processes involved. Nuclear scientists in the nuclear field of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) successfully carried out a test of for an in the […]

Mario—the beloved Nintendo mascot and video game icon—has left the plumbing profession. A newly-uploaded profile by Nintendo of everyone’s favorite Player One describes Mario as having worked as a plumber in the distant past, suggesting he’s a plumber no longer. The profile, first reported and translated from Japanese by Kotaku, focuses instead on Mario’s present-day […]Read More

There were some 15.4 trillion rupees ($242 billion) in 500 and 1,000 bills in circulation in India. Indians so far have returned about 99% of that amount to the central bank. Published 3 hours ago  |  Photo by Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 3, the body of yet another Hurricane Harvey victim was pulled out of the water in Texas. It belonged to Alonso Guillen, a 31-year-old man from Lufkin, Texas who had taken to the flooded waters of Cyprus Creek on Wednesday, Aug. 30 for a midnight rescue mission. The boat […]

Switzerland stands ready to step in and act as a mediator to resolve the North Korea crisis, Swiss president Doris Leuthard told told reporters in the capital Berne today. “I think it really is time for dialogue,” Leuthard said. “We are ready to offer our role for good services as a mediator. I think in […]

That night in 1990 is now apocryphal: Sawmill worker Pete Martell, played by Jack Nance, picked up the phone and called the Twin Peaks Police Department. Between shallow breaths, he spit it out fearfully, vowels protracted: “She’s dead…wrapped in plastic.” When ABC aired the pilot episode of Twin Peaks in the spring of 1990, it […]Read More