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There's a 'Very Clear Problem' With Assisted Suicide

Writing for NYT , Louise Perry fears medically assisted dying may lead to coercion of vulnerable

(Newser) - Medically assisted dying can seem the "logical" and "compassionate" route when a terminally ill patient seems to have nothing but pain and suffering in their future, concedes journalist Louise Perry. But Perry, whose native UK recently saw its lawmakers greenlight plans to legalize assisted suicide, notes in her...

The Kiss Cam Fallout Includes Schadenfreude, Shaming

One columnist hopes tech CEO, HR chief become 'folk heroes' of sorts; others issue warnings

(Newser) - The Kiss Cam scandal has dominated headlines over the better part of a week, leading to the resignation of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron after he was spotted on a giant screen at a Coldplay concert embracing his company's head of HR, Kristin Cabot. Although some are celebrating the public...

Bezos' Venice Wedding Illustrates Rise of Tackiness

Flaunting one's wealth is in, writes Amy Odell

(Newser) - "Stealth wealth" is out. "Swaggy and braggy" is in, or so it seems as we approach the nuptials of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. The occasion has Amy Odell taking a look at how wealth is manifesting itself these days: Being understated and quiet about it is no...

Elon Musk Shares Drug Test Results
Elon Musk Shares
Drug Test Results
Jun 17, 2025 5:44 PM CDT

Elon Musk Shares Drug Test Results

He challenges newspapers to do the same

(Newser) - Elon Musk was not on drugs last week, according to a drug test he posted on X early Tuesday with the comment "lol." The move followed a New York Times investigation last month that accused Musk of heavily using drugs including ketamine and ecstasy when he was on...

Pleading for Obama to Save You Is Weak
Stop Waiting
for Obama
to Save You
OPINION
Jun 13, 2025 11:00 AM CDT

Stop Waiting for Obama to Save You

NYT columnist says Trump foes who do so are misguided and weak

(Newser) - Earlier this week, Atlantic columnist Mark Leibovich wrote a buzzy piece critical of Barack Obama , suggesting the former president had succumbed to the "fierce lethargy of semi-retirement" as the world burned. "Where Is Barack Obama?" asked the headline of the piece. In response, New York Times columnist Tressie...

Blake Lively Scores Big Win Against Justin Baldoni

Judge tosses his $400M countersuit, along with his defamation case against the New York Times

(Newser) - A high-profile legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively took another turn on Monday—in Lively's favor:
  • A New York judge dismissed Baldoni's $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, reports People . Baldoni had accused them of defamation
...

More Than Half of This College's Students Are Foreign

Per NYT , 51% of Illinois Tech's undergrads, grad students are international

(Newser) - As the battle plays out between the Trump administration and Harvard over the latter's roster of international students, there are other colleges and universities that might also be at risk of losing a hefty chunk of its student roster if the White House goes after them, too. Using data...

Remote Tribe Sues NYT: We're Not Hooked on Porn

Amazon's Marubo tribe says newspaper story on their exposure to internet misrepresented things

(Newser) - An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued the New York Times, saying the newspaper's reporting on the tribe's first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.
  • The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community
...

Reagan's Daughter to Biden: Speak About Cancer
Reagan's Kid
Has Advice for
Biden on His
Cancer
OPINION
May 20, 2025 8:18 AM CDT

Reagan's Kid Has Advice for Biden on His Cancer

Patti Davis: Biden should talk openly about his illness, much as her dad did about his Alzheimer's

(Newser) - With the news that former President Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer , former first daughter Patti Davis acknowledges that while it's obviously a very personal matter for the ex-president, it can also be "an opportunity to show leadership, not in the arena of national or global...

She's Researching Aging. ICE Has Her Behind Bars

Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova writes for the New York Times from a Louisiana detention center

(Newser) - When Kseniia Petrova fled Russia two years ago, she did so because she didn't feel she could freely and safely carry out her work as a scientist there, especially after she was arrested for taking part in a protest. She landed at Harvard Medical School, and her work on...

Palin Loses Defamation Retrial
Palin Loses Defamation Retrial
Apr 22, 2025 4:26 PM CDT

Palin Loses Defamation Retrial

Jury decides New York Times did not libel her with 2017 editorial

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is now 0 for 2 in defamation lawsuits against the New York Times. After around two hours of deliberations, a jury decided Tuesday that the Times did not libel the former Alaska governor with an editorial in 2017 that suggested rhetoric from her political action committee had contributed...

Larry David's Essay Takes Bill Maher to Task

Comedian tweaks fellow comic over his meeting with Trump

(Newser) - Larry David wrote a satirical essay for the New York Times on Monday in which he envisioned a critic of Adolf Hitler having dinner with the German dictator in 1939 and coming away charmed. A day later, the chatter around the essay is about how David was really writing about...

Carville: Dems Need to Exploit Trump's 'Economic Chaos'
Carville:
Trump Gives
Democrats
an Opening
OPINION
Apr 14, 2025 3:28 PM CDT

Carville: Trump Gives Democrats an Opening

Political consultant says Trump is badly mishandling the economy

(Newser) - Calling President Trump's aggressive moves on tariffs "one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American history," James Carville writes at the New York Times that he doesn't think the commander in chief will be able to gloss it over. The Democratic political consultant...

Sarah Palin Begins Her Second Attempt to Prove Libel

Her new trial against the New York Times is getting underway

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is back in court Monday to once again make her case that the New York Times libeled her in 2017. As NPR notes, she lost her first attempt in a 2022 trial, but a "judge's misstep" has led to the second go-round that opens this...

Clinton Has a One-Word Take on Trump Administration

'Dumb,' former secretary of state says of Signal breach, many other moves Team Trump has made

(Newser) - "Dumb" is the operative word in Hillary Clinton's latest op-ed for the New York Times , in which she takes on former rival President Trump and his administration for "a string of self-inflicted wounds" since he took office, including the headline-making Signal breach that DOD chief Pete Hegseth,...

After Trump Blasts Reporters, Times Rips His 'Intimidation'

Journalists haven't always responded to president's attacks

(Newser) - The New York Times on Monday denounced "intimidation tactics" by President Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's reporting on Elon Musk and the Defense Department. The newspaper said in a post on X—the platform owned by Musk—that Trump's...

'Garbage Imperialism' of the '80s Never Really Went Away

New York Times columnist Alexander Clapp says the recycling story we've been told 'often isn't true'

(Newser) - In the '80s, hazardous waste from developed nations like the US began to get sent to undeveloped nations in bulk, with vows made to the recipients to pay them back with schools, hospitals, or cash for absorbing the rest of the world's trash. In 1992, the immorality of...

Kristof: What's Unfolding at USAID Is 'Sickening'

New York Times columnist says the world's richest are hurting the world's poorest

(Newser) - The headline of Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column on what's happening to USAID crystallizes the issue in his view: "The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children." Elon Musk has been gloating about gutting the US Agency for International Aid Development,...

The Pentagon Kicks Out NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico

The move is part of a plan to rotate access for media outlets each year

(Newser) - Four major news outlets will no longer have highly coveted office space at the Pentagon after the Defense Department released an internal memo announcing it's giving their space to other outlets. CNN's Haley Britzky posted the memo on X that said NBC News, the New York Times, NPR,...

Carville Doubles Down on His Famous Rule
Carville Doubles Down
on His Famous Rule
OPINION
Jan 2, 2025 8:52 AM CST

Carville Doubles Down on His Famous Rule

'It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid'

(Newser) - The James Carville of 2024 got it wrong in his election prediction of a Kamala Harris victory. Had he listened to the James Carville of 1992 , he might have gotten it right. "It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid," the political consultant writes...

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