Paul Pelosi Attack Suspect Enters Not-Guilty Plea
David DePape pleaded not guilty to six charges, including attempted murder.
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If You Must Cry Over a Space Robot, Make It This One
Here is the happy part: For more than four years, a funky-looking spacecraft did something remarkable. It was in many ways just another robot, a combination of hardy materials, circuits, and sensors with a pair of solar panels jutting out like wings on an insect. But this particular robot has listened to the ground shake on Mars. It has felt marsquakes beneath its little mechanical feet.NASA and European space agencies designed the spacecraft to study these Martian quakes in detail.
Just How Badly Does Apple Need China?
Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant, your phone was already one of the most complex gadgets in the world. It is the product of a delicate supply chain whose every link is forged by competing business and political interests.That chain is starting to rattle and even break, as the global tech industry works to become less dependent on China.
Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything
As the year comes to a close, I cannot stop thinking about … a court document. Plaintiffs in Twitter, Inc. v. Elon R. Musk et al. filed Exhibit H just before sunrise on September 29 in Delaware’s Court of Chancery. If you’ve seen excerpts, you probably know it by its street name: Elon Musk’s texts.
U.S. to require Covid tests for travelers coming from China
The new rules will take effect on Jan. 5.
“Tired of the Apologies”: Workers, Flyers Say Southwest Airlines Meltdown Was Decades in the Making
The U.S. Department of Transportation says it will investigate cancellations and delays by Southwest Airlines after the airline canceled about two-thirds of its flights since a Christmas snowstorm. The unprecedented operational meltdown left thousands of travelers stranded, causing scenes of chaos at airports across the country during one of the busiest travel seasons in the year.
“Abject Failure” in Buffalo: Blizzard Death Toll Rises as Activists Slam City’s Failed Prep, Response
Buffalo, New York, is experiencing a Katrina moment after this weekend’s historic blizzard. The death toll has climbed to at least 32 as people froze to death in their homes and cars, with nationwide fatalities surpassing 60 people. State and military police have been deployed to Buffalo to enforce the city’s ongoing driving ban as road conditions remain treacherous after a 51.5-inch snowfall.
Supreme Court Keeps Title 42, Causing Rise in Deadly Human Trafficking & Blocking Asylum Seekers
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ordered the Biden administration to continue enforcing Title 42, blocking asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump-era pandemic policy Title 42 has been used to expel over 2 million people at the border since March 2020.
Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: Covid roils Chinese towns
As China grapples with its first-ever national Covid-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.
In one state Senate race, signs of a national struggle over abortion
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed prohibiting the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy in his recently released budget, but doesn’t yet have the votes to enact that ban.
Covid-19 and overdose deaths drive U.S. life expectancy to a 25-year low
A baby born in 2021 can expect to live 76.4 years, down from 78.8 in 2019.
U.S. inflation slowed sharply to 7.1 percent over past 12 months
Even with last month’s further easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
“An Immense World”: Ed Yong on How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer at The Atlantic, talks about his recent book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.
To Catch a Dictator: Human Rights Lawyer Reed Brody on the Pursuit and Trial of Chad’s Hissène Habré
In this special broadcast, we speak with Reed Brody, the international human rights lawyer who has been called “the dictator hunter” for his role in bringing historic legal cases against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and others. Brody’s new book is just out, titled “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.” Habré, a former U.S.
‘Do You Have No Shame?’ George Santos Gets Epic Takedown On Fox News
“A lie is not an embellishment on a resume,” guest host Tulsi Gabbard told the GOP congressman-elect.
The Most Memorable Advice of 2022
In a year during which people tried to adopt a new normal, Atlantic writers and other experts explored the challenges and rewards of trying new things, the meaning of true optimism, and how to find joy even in difficult times.The stories in our pages—print and digital—explored what it means to be human and provided advice for navigating parenthood and relationships, friendships and the workforce, and more.
A look at Trump’s cratering favorability rating shows men, in particular, really don’t like a loser
Let’s check in on Donald Trump’s favorability rating in Civiqs tracking as the fallout over his midterm Midas touch (ahem!) continues.
Oh, looky, Trump’s favorables have fallen 4 points since Election Day, from 38% to 34%, while his unfavorability has ticked up to 57%. And (almost comically) those who say they are “unsure” about Trump have risen since Jan. 6, 2021, from 3% to 9% now.
Ukraine update: If NATO wants to send Ukraine a modern tank, this is a good choice
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in front of Congress, his speech included a not-so-subtle hint at what Ukraine needs to prosecute their counteroffensive to a successful conclusion.
Ukraine never asked the American soldiers to fight on our land instead of us. I assure you that Ukrainian soldiers can perfectly operate American tanks and planes themselves.
George Santos admits to some major lies, but a $700,000 mystery remains
Republican Rep.-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to many of the lies he got caught in only after being elected to Congress, but denied the broader implications of his pattern of lying and dodged some of the bigger issues raised by reports. In a series of interviews, Santos admitted to “résumé embellishment” but shrugged it off, saying that “a lot of people overstate in their résumés.
Coup-promoting defeated loser flees to Mar-a-Lago rather than attending rival’s inauguration
After losing his reelection bid last October, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been treading a familiar path of late. Very familiar, in fact. It’s so familiar that rather than repeating his name over and over, we’re just going to give him a completely generic name for the purposes of retelling his very familiar tale. Let’s call him Biff for now.
Southwest Airlines is melting down, cancelling thousands of flights days after the storm ended
A Christmas travel weekend that kicked off with a major winter storm bringing understandable but no less disappointing flight cancellations around the country has spiraled into a total disaster for would-be passengers on one airline in particular.
On the Wednesday through Friday before Christmas, airlines cancelled more than 7,000 flights, with another 20,000 delayed due to Winter Storm Elliott.
Dima and Elon’s Excellent Twitter Adventure
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote some Twitter fan fiction over the weekend in which he hallucinated the fall of the West and the rise of the Fourth Reich. Elon Musk thought the thread was “epic.” But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Senators Slam Southwest, Demand Compensation For ‘Ruined’ Holidays
“Southwest Airlines is failing consumers during the most important travel week of the year,” Sens. Markey and Blumenthal said in a joint statement.
Supreme Court Keeps Immigration Limits In Place Indefinitely
Pandemic-era limits on people seeking asylum will stay in place, dashing hopes of immigration advocates who had been anticipating their end this week.
Kari Lake Will Have To Pay More Than $30K Because Of Her Election Lawsuit
Courts “should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections,” the complaint read.
Republican Jewish Group: George Santos ‘Deceived Us’
Santos argued he claimed to be “Jew-ish,” not Jewish, while campaigning for a seat in Congress.
Eight Books to Comfort You When You’re Lonely
The holidays are a notoriously fraught time for big feelings, loneliness chief among them. In 2017, the surgeon general declared loneliness an American “epidemic,” with “over 40% of adults” in the U.S. suffering from it. Globally, the rates rose even further when the coronavirus pandemic made gathering dangerous.What makes things tricky is that solitude is not the same as loneliness.
Pandemic Poverty: Ray Suarez on How COVID-19 Set Back Low-Income Workers in the U.S., Especially Women
A new series of video reports by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Intercept called “Insecurity” looks at women leaving the workforce, the impact of the expanded child tax credit, and the wave of union organizing during the pandemic. The series spotlights people navigating food, housing and healthcare insecurity — who are falling through the cracks of the social safety net in the process.