Robert Ballard is the finder of important lost things.In 1985, he discovered the Titanic scattered beneath the Atlantic Ocean. He and his team also located the giant Nazi battleship Bismarck and, more recently, 18 shipwrecks in the Black Sea.Dr. Ballard has always wanted to find the remains of the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when…
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The U.K. banking industry could get a new female CEO, Simone Biles continues her G.O.A.T.-ness, and Jeffrey Epstein’s puzzling death risks overshadowing his alleged victims. Have a marvelous Monday. EVERYONE’S TALKING – Victimized again. The stunning death, by apparent suicide, of financier Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday raised plenty of questions. Why,…
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's death by apparent suicide early Saturday morning while in federal custody has made the future of already complex legal proceedings even murkier. The Southern District of New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in an indictment in July that accused…
STORM LAKE, Iowa — Senator Kamala Harris ordered tacos at a Mexican joint in Storm Lake (two chicken, one pork). She mingled with the masses at a New York-themed bar in Sioux City. (“You’ve got the whitest teeth,” one patron told her. “That’s a plus right there.”) She sampled apple egg rolls and flipped pork…
Jeffrey Epstein, the former financier accused of molesting teenage girls and sex trafficking, is dead.Epstein, 66, was found unresponsive in his Lower Manhattan jail cell at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday after an apparent suicide attempt and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He hanged himself, ABC News…
CBS News' White House Correspondent Paula Reid reported that Attorney General William Barr was "livid" that wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide early Saturday morning. In a statement, Barr wrote that he was "appalled" to learn Epstein was found dead while in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, and…
domainsAt 80, she is publishing a memoir about her social activism.ImageSister Helen Prejean’s new book, her third, is a memoir about her evolution as an activist nun. She runs her organization, the Ministry to Abolish the Death Penalty, out of an apartment next door to her own, in mid-city New Orleans.CreditCreditWilliam Widmer for The New…
On a field trip to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Ashish Bibireddy put on headphones and scrolled through a jukebox of music from an influential 1927 recording session.Bibireddy and nine other medical students had already been biking and rafting on their visit to rural Appalachia organized by a nearby medical college. But it wasn't…
Uber executives at the company's IPO in May at the New York Stock Exchange. AP Photo/Richard Drew Uber posted a $5.2 billion loss on Thursday, its largest ever, sending shares plummeting.A major chunk of that loss was a consequence of two things: stock-based compensation and driver rewards, both stemming from the company's initial public offering…
ImageProgressives have threatened to boycott SoulCycle and Equinox, both owned by the billionaire Stephen Ross, who is scheduled to host the president at his Hamptons home on Friday.CreditCreditChang W. Lee/The New York TimesWASHINGTON — For many businesses, a sudden deluge of phone calls might signal an influx of new customers. But most of the 25…
