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‘Have a good life, we’ll see you soon’: Trump departs White House after one tumultuous term
One-term President Donald Trump, after four divisive and tumultuous years in office, delivered a self-congratulatory farewell speech Wednesday after departing the White House for a final time. Trump and first lady Melania Trump stopped for photos and waved at the assembled media before the couple walked alone across the White House lawn. In a nod to future plans, the Republican president told reporters, “I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long-term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.” He leaves two weeks after the U.S. Capitol rioting by his supporters, who descended on the b...
New York Daily News
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6 new paperbacks to read as the days get longer
The days are getting longer, right? That means more time for reading, at least by my definition. Here are a half-dozen recommended paperback, if your bedside table is currently bare. "The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery / Saga Press, $16.99, out Jan. 26). Jones, whose work runs the gamut of horror, science fiction, crime fiction and experimental novels, here crafts "a thought-provoking trip to the edge of your seat in this rural creature feature" wrote Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. In the book, four young Blackfeet Native American men are haunted by an event in their ...
The Seattle Times
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Kit Kat Thins have arrived, a slimmer version of the classic candy bar
New year, new Kit Kat. The classic candy bar is showing off a svelte new figure for 2021, as Kit Kat Thins have made their way onto store shelves nationwide. Score the skinny new sweets in 3.4 and 7.2-ounce bags, for $2.39 and $3.89, respectively. The trim treat is thanks to the Thins having just two crispy chocolate-covered wafers instead of the usual three in standard bars. Kit Kat Thins are a permanent addition to the fam as opposed to recent fleeting sweets. Hershey, which runs the Kit Kat brand here in the U.S., has gotten more adventurous in the past year, rolling out limited-time flavor...
New York Daily News
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Treasures: Monetary value of pottery depends on size
This vase/bowl with lid has been in my family singe the 1960s. I have no idea where it is from or if it is valuable. I am looking to downsize and want to sell it. Thank you, D. D. Dear D. D.: Unmarked pottery and porcelain can drive a collector halfway to tears of utter frustration when trying to identify the maker of a piece or even the country of origin. We may never know exactly who made this covered jar, but we do know with some certainty where it was made and what it should be called. The first picture supplied by D. D., which was of the entire piece, told us the piece was made in Japan. ...
Tribune News Service
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Review: 'Why Fish Don't Exist,' by Lulu Miller
"Why Fish Don't Exist" by Lulu Miller; Simon & Schuster (240 pages, $26) ——— National Public Radio contributor Lulu Miller charts her rebound from a breakup in a book that is part biography, part murder mystery, part an attempt to figure out what's happening in her own heart. The biography is of taxonomist David Starr Jordan, a hero of hers who inspires the book's title (the argument is that salmon and koi do, indeed, exist but there is so much variety in the classification of "fish" that it isn't scientifically useful). But she discovers he had an extremely disappointing dark side. Long story...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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Review: 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold,' by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
"Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot; Hanover Square Press (272 pages, $19.99) ——— What a strange little book this is! Quirky and charming. A bestseller in Japan, "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" is set in a coffee shop in an out-of-the-way alley in Tokyo, a tiny ancient place with just three tables and nine chairs. But one of those chairs has special powers. If you sit in the appropriate chair, you can go back in time — but only for the length of time that it takes for your cup of coffee to grow cold. The writing in this book t...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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Hitler video clip circulated among San Diego police leads to internal investigation
SAN DIEGO —The San Diego Police Department is investigating a video depicting Adolf Hitler that circulated among some department members. The video “negatively portrays the community and department leadership” and includes a homophobic comment about the city’s new mayor, Todd Gloria, a police spokesman confirmed. Gloria, who took office Dec. 10, is the city’s first openly gay mayor. Police spokesman Lt. Shawn Takeuchi called the video “extremely disturbing and offensive.” “The department will not tolerate hateful speech of any kind,” he said. “If the video was created by a department member, C...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Commentary: Europe’s problems will persist, even with Biden in the White House
The election of Joe Biden produced a huge sigh of relief in Europe. “Welcome back America!” tweeted Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. “Let’s work together!” exclaimed French President Emmanuel Macron. And it wasn’t just in France, but all over Europe that leaders welcomed the news that the White House would soon be occupied by someone who would want to work with them — in contrast to Donald Trump, who had openly disdained the allies and declared the European Union a “foe.” Biden is just what European allies had hoped for in an American leader. He is the most Atlanticist president at least since George...
Chicago Tribune
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An outraged Kemp blasts pro-Trump conspiracy theorists harassing his family
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp is fed up with the unrelenting attacks from conspiracy theorists calling on him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia. But he’s even more enraged that some of those peddlers of false claims are targeting his wife and three daughters. “It has gotten ridiculous — from death threats, (claims of) bribes from China, the social media posts that my children are getting,” he said. “We have the ‘no crying in politics rule’ in the Kemp house. But this is stuff that, if I said it, I would be taken to the woodshed and would never see the light of day.” The Re...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Cobra Golf teams up with HP to take a swing at selling 3D-printed putter
3D Printing has been around in the golf industry for years. But the technology hasn't been used to mass-produce clubs. It is mostly relegated to making internal prototypes — especially at the large golf brands.Now Carlsbad, Calif.-based Cobra Golf has teamed up with Hewlett Packard to launch new a 3D-printed putter using HP's Metal Jet technology that's not just a prototype. It is being sold to the public.After two years of behind-the-scenes work, Cobra and HP last week announced the King Supersport-35. It uses an intricate lattice structure to distribute weight across the entire clubhead, whi...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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