theatlantic.com – By Joe Pinsker – American homes are a lot bigger than they used to be. In 1973, when the Census Bureau started tracking home sizes, the median size of a newly built house was just over 1,500 square feet; that figure …
sciencemag.org – By Andrew Lawler – Today, more than 150 million people regularly smoke cannabis, making it one of the world’s most popular recreational drugs. But when and where humans began to appreciate the psychoactive properties of weed has been more a matter …
washingtonpost.com – By David Nakamura , John Wagner and Nick Miroff – President Trump announced Friday night that a deal was in place that would avert threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico in exchange for that country’s taking “strong measures” to curb the …
carolinapublicpress.org – by Staff Reports – The NC House of Representatives fell five votes short of a required 60 percent majority in a Republican-led effort Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of SB 359, an abortion-related proposal. The final House vote …
foxnews.com – By Ann W. Schmidt – The crop top is making another run as the summer’s hottest trend — and this season ASOS is bringing men into the mix. The online retailer is selling numerous crop tops and tube tops for men …
bbc.com – US President Donald Trump has denied calling the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, “nasty” despite the comments being recorded. “I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty’,” he tweeted on Sunday, adding: “Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught …
businessinsider.com – By Steve Cameron and Melia Robinson – Luxury may not be the first word associated with apocalypse preparation, but amenities like a pool, gym, rock climbing wall, and movie theater make this $3 million doomsday condo more than a survival bunker. …
globaltimes.cn – Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China – Teachers at a primary school in Southwest China thought they had come up with a cute science experiment but soon learned they had reached the wrong conclusion, after their methodology was roundly criticized on social media.Teachers …
foreignpolicy.com – By Reid Standish, Robbie Gramer – Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia’s propaganda machine long before the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. In January, the U.S. State Department took notice, …
cornwalllive.com – By Charlotte Turner – Not many of us can say we’ve approached a pheasant wearing nothing but a hat and a one-sided G-string. But that can’t be said of Stephen Phelps. The farrier waded in to help a client who was …