Atlanta magazine publisher is trying to end woke coverage
On a hot Tuesday in late June, staffers at Atlanta magazine gathered for a tense meeting with longtime publisher Sean McGinnis. On his agenda: pronouns.
“Are we, as a matter of fact, now writing stories based upon preferred pronouns?” McGinnis asked, citing to a recent profile of a labor organizer. “‘She’ is referred to as ‘they’ throughout the story.”
One editor responded that using pronouns corresponding with a subject’s identity is standard journalistic practice, “not a left or right thing.
Charles Omenihu will play vs. Eagles despite arrest
The 49ers plan to have Charles Omenihu available for the NFC title game on Sunday, less than a week after his Monday arrest on a suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence charge.
“We’re letting the legal process take care of itself, so if he’s healthy, he’ll play this week,” San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan told media on Wednesday. “We’ve looked into it the last 48 hours, not only himself but other people.
Cotton & Reeds new allspice dram wants to be the most versatile spirit in your bar
Lukas B. Smith, who has worked at bars across the city, is known for tinkering with the bitters, syrups and liqueurs that go into his cocktails. Now’s your first chance to take one of his concoctions home. Rum distillery Cotton & Reed, where Smith runs the bar program, will bottle and sell his allspice dram.
This bar staple is Jamaican in origin, and is commonly used to give tiki drinks their rich spiciness.
High-profile lawyer charged with murder of wife and son
By Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, Washington
Facebook/Maggie MurdaughMargaret and Paul MurdaughA prominent US lawyer has been charged with the murder of his wife and son, the latest twist in a murky saga that has already seen Alex Murdaugh accused of faking his own death as well as dozens of other crimes.
Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and son Paul, 22, were shot and killed outside their home just over a year ago. The now-disgraced lawyer reported finding their bodies on the family's sprawling estate in South Carolina.
Japan earthquake death toll rises to 161
By Kathryn ArmstrongBBC News
ReutersSnow and heavy rain has been hampering the search for those still missing following the earthquakeThe death toll from Japan's devastating New Year's Day earthquake has risen from to more than 160, authorities say.
Efforts are continuing to find more than 100 people who remain missing a week later.
But bad weather is hampering rescuers- with heavy rain and snow triggering warnings of landslides and building collapses.
Pablo Escobars son says his dads death was by suicide
Pablo Escobar’s son says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.
Juan Pablo Escobar says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities.
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Sweltering heat wave moves across southern Europe
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain sweltered under an unrelenting heat wave Wednesday as temperatures started to build toward what is forecast to be a torrid weekend across southern Europe.
Spain’s weather service said thermometers could potentially hit 45 C (113 F) in southeastern areas of the Iberian Peninsula, which are under alert for extreme heat. That mark was reached Monday in the village of Loja near Granada at the start of the heat wave that is causing restless nights across the country.
The creepy clown crisis: White House defers to FBI. Stephen King hits hysteria.
It is a strange thing when Stephen King must defend the world from tales of horrific clowns. The horror maestro who wrote “It,” which featured a monster in the form of a clown, recently spoke out as a voice of pro-clown reason.
“Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria,” King tweeted on Monday, “most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.”
King was, for the most part, correct.
The cruelest psychological experiment ever cooked up: Author Adam Johnson on North Korea
Several books released in the past few years — notably Blaine Harden’s “Escape from Camp 14” and Barbara Demick’s “Nothing to Envy” — give a vivid, if partial, picture of repression and trauma in North Korea. But Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Orphan Master’s Son" is different: It’s fiction, and it turns an elusive society into a three-dimensional world that facts alone can’t inform. (Also, Kim Jong Il appears in the book — as a fully formed, utterly non-cartoonish character.