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Trump vows response after Iran shoots down US helicopter

President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to respond after he accused Iran of shooting down a US military helicopter the previous night, hours after he said negotiations to end the Middle East war were in their final stages. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker and

Paintings of an Architectural Apocalypse

I (weirdly?) love Amy Casey’s paintings of buildings in peril — being swallowed by the sea, being flung into the sky by wind. There’s an element of the Kowloon Walled City to Casey’s work, as well as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (specifically the tomato tornado). (via

Harmony Tividad – “Best Dressed”

This month, Harmony Tividad releases Lifetime , the followup to her sleazy electro-pop masterpiece Gossip . So far she's previewed Lifetime with " Where Strangers Go ," " Anything ," " Apple Pie ," and " I'm Still Learning How To Leave You ," all of which reverberate with the

Farmed oysters may boost New York's dwindling wild populations

Farmed oysters are mixing with and potentially adding to populations of wild oysters—a once-abundant species in New York's estuaries and rivers that has declined drastically over the last century. A new study, published in the journal Molecular Ecology, offers genetic evidence