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Jeff Tweedy Wrote A Rock ‘N’ Roll-Themed NYT Crossword

This week Carole King , Diane Warren , and the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt — all of whom appear on the New York Times ' hotly-debated new list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters — each wrote five-by-five mini puzzles for the publication's digital crossword

How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct

How quasars shut down star formation in the early universe

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black holes more than a billion times the mass of the sun appear to exist just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was less than

Kristi Noem Stooge Flops Out of Congressional Race

The 29-year-old woman Kristi Noem handpicked to oversee ICE’s billion-dollar budget just lost her nomination bid in an Ohio congressional primary. Madison Sheahan, a f ormer ICE deputy director, was in third place Wednesday when the Associated Press called the state’s 9th

Victory in Iran is nothing short of finishing it off

In the part of the world that includes Iran, if you have to explain that you won you have in fact lost. President Trump’s announcement that he is pausing, after a day, Project Freedom, which had the US Navy escorting cargo ships through the Straits of Hormuz, is puzzling. As

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Action Bronson – “Peppers” (Feat. Roc Marciano)

Are we witnessing the Action Bronsonaissance? “Triceratops,” the NYC rap foodie’s recent collab with Paul Wall and Lil Yachty, was fire. So is the next single from Planet Frog, Bronson’s new LP out this week. “Peppers” pairs him with fellow New York emcee extraordinare Roc

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