newyorker.com – By Patrick Radden Keefe – The north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vast, airy enclosure featuring a banked wall of glass and the Temple of Dendur, a sandstone monument that was constructed beside the Nile two millennia …
latimes.com – By Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle – For more than a year while he was dean of USC’s medical school, Dr. Carmen Puliafito abused drugs on days he worked as an eye doctor in university facilities and “would return …
usnews.com – By Megan Trimble – President Donald Trump reportedly has poked fun at his right-hand man for his socially conservative views. That’s according to a New Yorker profile of Vice President Mike Pence published online and slated for the magazine’s Oct. 23 …
newshub.co.nz – By Breanna Barraclough – Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Year competition is often heated and fraught with controversy and just three days in, this year is no different. While people are only allowed one vote in the competition and must …
latimes.com – By Harriet Ryan – A USC administrator responsible for raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the university has left his post in the wake of allegations that he sexually harassed female colleagues, the latest blow to a campus already dealing …
nydailynews.com – BY Stephen Rex Brown – An entrepreneur who sued the state for foiling his efforts to get seven city bodegas to accept bitcoin wants Pulitzer Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to testify in his case. An attorney for Theo Chino says the …
mirror.co.uk – By Tom Parry – Vienna – A man dressed as a shark has been arrested under Austria’s burka ban laws while working as a mascot outside a shop. The employee was standing outside an Apple re-seller called McShark in a shark …
post-gazette.com – By Paula Reed Ward – Pittsburgh, PA. – A text message sent in January to U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy by a woman with whom he had an extra-marital relationship took him to task for an anti-abortion statement posted on Facebook from …
nytimes.com – By ROSANNE CASH – I’ve been a gun-control activist for 20 years. Every time I speak out on the need for stricter gun laws, I get a new profusion of threats. There’s always plenty of the garden-variety “your dad would be …
variety.com – By Chris Morris – Tom Petty, whose Florida-bred quintet the Heartbreakers was one of the defining arena-rock acts of the 1970s with hits like “Breakdown,” died of a heart attack on Monday evening, the longtime manager of Tom Petty and the …