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U.S. White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 20, 2021.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersJen Psaki, who left her role as President Joe Biden's press secretary earlier this month, will join cable news network MSNBC this fall.Psaki will appear across all MSNBC programs on cable and will host her own streaming show beginning in the first quarter of 2023, according to MSNBC President Rashida Jones. She will also appear on both NBC and MSNBC during primetime coverage…

| Antarctic Press launches another What-If World War 3 series by Motofumi Kobayashi of Cat Sh-t One, Raid On Tokyo, with USSR forces invading Japan… here are the full Antarctic Press Augiust 2022 solicits and solicitations WORLD WAR 3 RAID ON TOKYO #1 (OF 5)ANTARCTIC PRESSJUN221271(W) Motofumi Kobayashi (A) Motofumi KobayashiMore hard-hitting alternate-history action from combat manga master Motofumi Kobayashi (Cat Shit One)!  The abolition of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty leads to incursions by…

Who doesn’t enjoy an ice-cold glass of pink lemonade on a hot day? Oni Press is hoping that you do, as the publisher has announced that they will be publishing Pink Lemonade, the independent comic series from cartoonist Nick Cagnetti. The series follows a motorcycle-riding superhero as she’s just starting out and trying to find a place for herself. Here’s how Oni Press describes the series: Breakout indy comics sensation Nick Cagnetti’s sleeper hit comes to Oni Press! A new hero on the scene, Pink Lemonade dreams of…

Update (12 May 2022): The big day of the announcement is today! Make sure to check back to ScienceAlert's home page for a live blog of the press conference at roughly 08:40 am EDT, or 12:40 UTC. Read below on what we think we can expect.Original (29 April 2022): In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.It's anyone's guess what the announcement will be, but based on what we know of their recent efforts, there's reason to get excited…

Sam Knight is a prizewinning British New Yorker journalist whose features and profiles fizz with doggedly chased-down detail distilled into compelling narrative, whether he’s writing about Ronnie O’Sullivan, the £8bn-a-year sandwich industry or preparations for the death of the Queen (“Operation London Bridge”). The Premonitions Bureau, his first book, showcases the gifts that make him so endlessly readable. A richly researched feat of compression, it tells a tantalising tale of the unlikely interplay between the press,…

With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep on the job.They can't visit the village rooms where competitors are staying, but they can try out the high-tech beds athletes are sleeping in. Several corridors at the main media center are lined with “sleep rest cabins," small pods that open with a QR code and contain beds.The beds can be adjusted by remote control and even have a “zero-gravity mode” meant to reduce stress on the body — you don't quite float, but it's pretty…

Part of the Future of Work issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Harriet Krzykowski was a mental health aide in a South Florida correctional facility, making $12 per hour, when she learned of the death of Darren Rainey. Rainey was a mentally ill man who had been incarcerated at the prison where she worked, and prison guards had killed him. The details were particularly horrifying. The guards responsible had…