The June issue of Vogue Arabia is dedicated to the “trailblazing women of Saudi Arabia” and the much-awaited date that will give Saudi women the right to drive. The cover shot is a glamorous photo of Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah Al Saud in the Jeddah desert, perched in the driver’s seat of a vintage red
Since President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement in 2017, a number of local governments have taken it upon themselves to meet the deal’s requirements to the extent that they can—but a new study finds that while those efforts are admirable and significant for individual states and communities, they are no match for
Credit: NPR Pete Buttigieg says he understands “the daunting nature” of the presidency. He touts his executive experience as a twice-elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., giving him an advantage over other Democratic presidential candidates, particularly those who serve in Congress. And three years into the current administration, Buttigieg proclaims that of the candidates running
Just 48 hours ahead of massive nationwide protests in the United Kingdom against U.S. President Donald Trump’s official visit on Friday, more than a dozen organizers and members of parliament accused the British police of “curtailing the right to protest and putting the health and safety of demonstrators in jeopardy” by denying groups permission to
Bolstering concerns that so-called “feedback loops” should be considered a legitimate and serious concern, a new study shows that a worrying hypothesis put out just three years ago about the impacts of melting Antarctic ice may already have started coming true. In a paper published in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Tasmania and
After kicking off a rare public appearance on Monday by answering a series of laughable softball questions from CNN‘s Van Jones—”How did you get this job? You have like the dopest job in the world”—President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner admitted that the facts of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder are
Days before the elections in Brazil, a young Brazilian approached me and said, “God willing, Bolsonaro to win. He is a military man and will end corruption.” I did not want to answer. I esteem this boy as a good person, maybe too young to be anything else. But these two brief sentences summed up
Can you believe Dancing with the Stars has been on air for over a decade? Season 25 of ABC’s hit reality competition show premiered on Monday night and host Erin Andrews brought the glamour. For the kick-off night, the 39-year-old TV personality turned to a memorably metallic Jovani dress with a deep-V design and plunging
In the upcoming thriller All I See Is You, Blake Lively plays a woman who regains her sight after a lifetime of blindness and lays eyes on her husband (Jason Clarke) for the first time. But judging by the film’s intense trailer, it hardly feels like a vision of love. Directed and co-written by Marc Forster
Thousands of mostly-female city workers began a two-day strike on Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland, demanding equal pay after living under an unfair pay scale for more than a decade and spending nearly a year negotiating with the city council. With about 8,000 protesters marching through the city, employees are demanding a long-awaited resolution to talks