Month: October 2019

Boston College must turn over 11 confidential interviews with former Irish Republican Army members for an investigation of a 40-year-old murder case in Northern Ireland, but a lower court was wrong to tell the college to release 74 others, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston (1st Cir.) ruled last week. “After a detailed review […]

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The revolving doors still revolve, the greeters still greet, but the mood at Barneys is glum. The department store — where Andy Warhol and Carrie Bradshaw both shopped — is in bankruptcy; its future is […]

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The House Ethics Committee announced on Wednesday evening that it was launching an investigation into representative Katie Hill, and her alleged sexual relationships with her legislative director and a staffer on her congressional campaign. Hill is a freshman Democrat from California, and is one of the first openly bisexual women in Congress. Reports of her […]

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Everyone agrees that Rihanna smells really good. And we’re not talking about just regular people. Celebrities, the kind of people whose lives are filled with expensive and pleasurable scents, report that Rihanna smells like heaven (see testimonies from Lil Nas X and Jim Parsons, among many others). According to internet lore, Rihanna smells like Kilian’s […]

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