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The red suit and fur-trimmed hat, the white beard, the sack of toys: these are the trappings of an icon who has been featured on New Yorker covers since the magazine’s inception, in 1925. Of the more than a hundred…
In April, The New Yorker launched its first-ever American-style crossword puzzle. (As David Remnick noted in his introduction of the puzzle, the magazine previously published, for a short time, a British-style cryptic crossword—a “fiendishly difficult” variant on the form.) Since…
The prime minister praised the Armed Forces in her Christmas speech for keeping the UK safe from Russia, defeating Daesh and “sending a message” to Syrian President Bashar Assad. UK Prime Minister Theresa May hailed the British Armed Forces in her…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Six largest US banks have assured the country’s authorities of having enough liquidity for lending amid yet another decision of the US Federal Reserve to increase the benchmark interest rate, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Mnuchin…
The Norwegian and Danish police are working to remove a video of the grisly killing from the internet and have confirmed that they are collaborating with Facebook to prevent it from further being shared. Moroccan authorities believe four suspects in the…
My annual task of going back through the Shouts (Daily, as well as & Murmurs) of the preceding year is an emotional ride. One feeling I experience: amusement. I mean, these pieces—and their brethren, which I was forced at knife…
