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Modern compression socks were invented by Conrad Jobst, a dashing German engineer who lived in Toledo, Ohio, and suffered from varicose veins. He also developed precision gun sights for the U.S. during the First World War and patented the car sunroof, but compression socks, which he invented around 1950, were his flagship achievement. On paper, […]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Ivanka Trump came out strongly against busing on Monday, telling reporters, “I have never taken a bus in my life—they’re gross.” Trump said she was reluctant to wade into the busing controversy, but asserted, “The idea of getting on a bus, where there are a lot of other people and you have […]

Peter de Sève has drawn more than forty covers for The New Yorker. His first came in 1993, during the summer, and his latest draws on that season’s sunlit torpor. In between, de Sève also became a renowned character designer: in the past few decades, he’s helped create some of the most beloved figures in […]

“Spider-Man: Far from Home,” starring Tom Holland as the Queens teen-ager Peter Parker, rapidly intertwines the big events that capped the “Avengers” cycle—Thanos’s mass obliteration of half of humanity and of half the Avengers, in “Infinity War,” and the return of those victims coupled with the (likely definitive) deaths of other heroes, in “Endgame”—with the […]

NORTH KOREA (The Borowitz Report)—Setting foot in North Korea for the first time, on Sunday, President Donald Trump praised that nation’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, for his efforts on immigration, telling Kim, “No one is trying to get into your country.” After crossing into North Korea from the Demilitarized Zone, Trump remarked to the North […]

Share 1st Jul 2019 Updated: Last week we brought you the news that Meghan Markle had secretly had her engagement ring redesigned, a detail the world managed to miss during her appearance at Trooping the Colour back in June. Now, we have confirmation surrounding the redesign, which was part of a larger gift to the […]

Share 1st Jul 2019 Charlotte Casiraghi has married her partner Dimitri Rassam, again–this time during a religious service in Provence, France. Casiraghi, who is Grace Kelly’s granddaughter and the daughter of Princess Caroline, first tied the knot with Rassam in Monaco in June. The couple hosted a civil wedding ceremony at Monaco’s Prince’s Palace, where […]

Share 1st Jul 2019 All the breathtaking haute fashion drama of Paris couture week has arrived for another season and storied French fashion house, Christian Dior, invites you to take a seat in the front row and enjoy all the beauty of their autumn/winter ‘19’/’20 couture show as it unfolds live in Paris. In a […]

The show goes on. On Sunday, in a bizarre bit of diplomacy that had been proposed on Twitter just a day before, President Trump met the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, at the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula. Beyond the D.M.Z., which is four kilometres wide, the two Koreas are technically at […]

In the fifth minute of the United States’ World Cup quarter-final game against France, the French defender Griedge Mbock Bathy pulled down the American striker Alex Morgan outside the penalty area and was shown a yellow card. Megan Rapinoe took the ensuing free kick and delivered a low, hard shot that bent around a small […]