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No more Coca-Cola for Venezuela--there's not enough sugar. Diet Coke is still around--until the country runs out of aspartame--but the disappearance from store shelves of an icon of globalization is the latest blow for an economy on the edge. In April, the country's largest private company, Empresas Polar SA, which makes 80% of the beer that Venezuelans consume, closed its doors. The government now rations water, so Venezuelans have begun stealing it from tanker trucks and swimming pools. Electricity is also in short supply, and President Nicolás Maduro has ordered public offices to conserve energy by remaining open just two days a week. An ongoing drought only makes matters worse. About 65% of the country's electricity is generated by a single hydroelectric dam that's now in serious trouble. Blackouts, scheduled…

ORDERED By a Pennsylvania judge, that TV star Bill Cosby stand trial for sexual-assault charges brought by Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who claims he drugged and sexually violated her in 2004. The comedian says the activity was consensual and has denied similar allegations by dozens of other women. Cosby's lawyers tried to have the case thrown out, but the judge said prosecutors had enough evidence for a trial to proceed. If convicted, Cosby could face up to 10 years in prison. ANNOUNCED By U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty in the case of Dylann S. Roof, who is accused of fatally shooting nine people last year at Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, S.C., during a racially motivated attack. RELEASED…

In most regional cultures, including those in the U.S., people work hard to earn honor--by protecting community values, for example, or defending a family member's reputation. Superficially, this is a good thing; it encourages people to behave appropriately. But there is a downside, argues social psychologist Ryan P. Brown in his new book, Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche. Research suggests that if a society is overly concerned with honor, its members can become hypersensitive to insults. Consider the question "What did you just call me?" writes Brown, which is often a "prelude to potential violence." Or the statistics, he adds, that show a correlation between certain honor-obsessed areas of the South and higher rates of domestic violence and school shootings. Ironically, Brown concludes, putting…

15% Proportion of American adults who have used ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft; 33% say they've never heard of them 33 Median age of American adults who use ride-hailing apps 57% Proportion of ride-hailing-app users who say these services should not be subject to the same rules and regulations as taxi companies, compared with 27% who say they should 64% Proportion of frequent users who own their own vehicle; the figure rises to 78% for less frequent users and nonusers 86% Proportion of all users who say ride-hailing services save them time and decrease stress --S.B.…

Did you research wine for the show? A friend of mine is one of the top somms in New York, and he gave me a crash course. I waited tables for seven years--at Ed Debevic's [in Chicago], where the waiters were on roller skates, but also all over L.A. before Friends--so I thought I knew how to open a bottle of wine. Turns out I was crap. Do you consider yourself a foodie? If the definition of foodie is someone who flies to a new city or country just to try a restaurant, then no. If the definition is someone who, once they hit the ground in that new city, looks up the best restaurant there, then I guess I am. You took a long break from TV. Why did…

Why did you decide to write this book? Bush Hager: I wrote this book actually on maternity leave with my youngest baby, Poppy. Ask any nursing new mother--you're very nostalgic, and you think about what you want for your children. With the rise of technology, the one thing I didn't want to happen was for my kids to lose the appreciation for being outdoors and being creative. Does Poppy have a great bond with her great-grandfather, whose childhood nickname was Poppy? Bush Hager: My grandpa was really sick when I was pregnant with Mila, and we went to say goodbye. Really, we thought he wasn't going to live. He touched my stomach and said, "There's life, and then there's death." I thought my girls weren't going to meet this man…

As someone who has prepared actual Chinese food, what do you make of American Chinese food? Any country you travel to has their own Chinese food, and they all have the same things. They hit on a matrix. Every single dish--whether it's kung pao chicken, General Tso's chicken, orange chicken--you have acid from vinegar, heat from chilies, sugar, soy, which has umami, and then it's usually fried. It's pop music. Max Martin [hitmaker for Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, the Weeknd and others] is to music what Chinese food is to fast food. You say the Michelin guide pushes restaurants away from taking risks. They like to say they are a response to the stale American food culture. But they create another stale global food culture at the other end of…

DO YOUR RESEARCH The website foodsafety.gov/recalls tracks brands and products that have been contaminated; make sure to check it before you shop. WASH YOUR FRUITS AND VEGGIES Health authorities recommend scrubbing harder produce, such as melons and cucumbers, with a bristled produce brush to get rid of germs. BE CAREFUL WITH LEFTOVERS Listeria can grow over time in fridges, so it's important to consume precooked foods fairly quickly; hot dogs, for example, shouldn't be kept more than a week.…

RIVAL ON THE RUN Under the guise of a medical emergency, presidential candidate Moise Katumbi flew to South Africa on May 20 as Congolese authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. Katumbi, the popular head of Africa's champion football club TP Mazembe, calls the coup allegations a "grotesque lie." RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK The country's constitution bars Kabila from a third term in office, but he has been doing everything in his power to delay elections, from refusing to fund the election board to demanding a census. On May 11, Congo's courts ruled that if elections don't take place in November, Kabila could stay in power until they do. CHAOS LOOMS Even though the U.S. has threatened sanctions on Kabila and his allies if elections fail to take place, few…

The losses of EgyptAir Flight 804 One was a Canadian-Egyptian manager with IBM, returning to Cairo from a vacation in Paris. Another had been a volunteer firefighter in France. A third was a 26-year-old flight attendant. They were among the 66 people aboard EgyptAir Flight 804, a red-eye on its way from Paris to Cairo on May 19 when the jet suddenly plunged into the sea. The cause of the crash remains undetermined, and the scraps of evidence that have been made public have provided not answers but only fodder for dispute. Speaking to reporters less than a day after the plane went down, Egypt's Aviation Minister said a terrorist attack was a more likely explanation than a technical failure. On May 24, a senior Egyptian forensic official told the…

Roughly 3 out of 4 venture-backed startups fail, according to Harvard Business School's Shikhar Ghosh, who studies young companies. Typically they falter because they can't find a market, can't compete or run out of funding. But it's almost unheard of for a startup to die in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, as Chaitanya Kanojia's Aereo did two years ago this month. Aereo, which launched to fanfare in 2012 and attracted millions in funding from the likes of Barry Diller's IAC, offered low-cost television service over the Internet, including local over-the-air channels carrying CBS, NBC and Fox. Broadcasters objected to Aereo's method of transmitting their content and charging for it. The ensuing legal battle, widely watched by tech founders and investors, pitted the fledgling firm against America's most powerful cable…

Last year, Netflix's Beasts of No Nation arrived in an unorthodox way. It received a token release in theaters for awards eligibility (star Idris Elba won a Screen Actors Guild award), but it was meant to be watched at home, a sign of streaming services' growing ambition. This summer, Netflix will stream The Do-Over (May 27), starring Adam Sandler, and The Fundamentals of Caring (June 24), in which Paul Rudd plays caretaker to a teen (Craig Roberts) with muscular dystrophy. Amazon, perhaps stung by poor box office for Spike Lee's Chi-Raq (which arrived online an unusually brief two months after its debut in theaters), is giving some of its movies breathing room. At some point this summer you will be able to stream spring movies Amazon distributed, like the Austen…

LOVE IT A team of chefs in Italy set a Guinness World Record by baking a 1.15-mile-long pizza, the longest ever. A video of a woman laughing in a Chewbacca mask went massively viral, logging more than 140 million views on Facebook. An 18-year-old from St. Louis re-created Beyoncé's 2015 Met Gala dress for her senior prom. Florida-based Saltwater Brewery helped design a line of edible and biodegradable six-pack rings in an effort to protect sea creatures. CBS's fall TV schedule will (sort of) reunite Friends stars Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry--they're both starring in Monday-night comedies. As part of a promotion, rental company HomeAway is giving tourists a chance to spend a night in the Eiffel Tower during the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Time's weekly take on what popped…

I met Morley in 1969 when he was the CBS bureau chief in London, where he developed a taste for custom-made tweed suits and silk pocket handkerchiefs. He was debonair. But there was always something a little off, just a tad rumpled, which made you like him. He was as much fun as his stories, which were often full of whimsy, like the one about how much the dour Finns like to tango. And nothing on TV was ever better than his interviews with women: Katharine Hepburn, Dolly Parton, Helen Mirren. There was always the moment when you knew he had been seduced! Just before his death from pneumonia on May 19, I interviewed him about being a grandfather. He lamented his old age: "Now I won't live long enough…

Laura Leonard, a medical worker, had seen hundreds of co-workers lose their jobs to technology advances at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. So when her bank offered a wage-insurance policy that, for $21 a month, promised to back up as much as half her salary, it seemed a small price to pay for peace of mind. Last June, her decision to buy paid off. The 56-year-old's job was among the latest batch eliminated. She credits the policy--which kicked in to supplement government-provided unemployment--with saving her home. Now she's at work again and has re-upped on her policy. "Is anybody's job safe these days?" Leonard asks. It's a fair question. The economy is expanding, and unemployment is near an eight-year low. Yet job cuts jumped 24% last year…

For centuries, being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in America meant hiding at least part of who you were. The stigma traces as far back as the colonial era, when sodomy was a capital crime. The culture has shifted over time, and recent decades have brought a rapid social transformation. Today, as the LGBT population moves into its full and equal place in public life, more officials are asking an old question with new urgency: Just how many LGBT Americans are there? Many experts believe that we need a full accounting of the nation's LGBT population and how they live for a host of legal, economic and medical reasons. Now, for the first time, a group of experts from 21 federal agencies is working on a project to figure out…

"What trait do kids really need to be happy and successful?" Over the years, hundreds of parents have asked me that question. My answer surprises most: empathy. More than acing tests or earning fancy degrees, kids--and adults--who understand and appreciate the people around them are better able to collaborate, innovate and problem-solve. Studies show they're happier too. Unfortunately, in America, we have a serious empathy deficit. I call it the "Selfie Syndrome." Thanks in part to the rise of social media, as well as changes in our culture and parenting styles, today's kids are more self-absorbed than ever; one study estimates narcissism rates among college students are up 58% versus three decades ago. And this has given rise to a culture of bullying, cheating and unhappiness. One in five middle-school…

7,981,513 views 484,767 7,117 The channel with the fifth most subscribers on YouTube is Justin Bieber's VEVO channel--all Justin Bieber videos, all the time. It has 22 million subscribers. VEVO also owns the sixth through the 10th spots on the list, the other ones being, in descending order, RihannaVEVO, OneDirectionVEVO, TaylorSwiftVEVO, KatyPerryVEVO and EminemVEVO. But go the other way, up the list, and something strange happens. You pass through a kind of YouTube-fame singularity where the rules of normal real-world celebrity no longer apply. At No. 4 is the online sketch-comedy duo Smosh (22 million subscribers). No. 3 is YouTube Spotlight--new and trending videos (24 million). The No. 2 channel belongs to HolaSoyGerman, a Chilean comic and musician with 28 million subscribers. The top spot is owned, and has been…

I know the impermissible can quickly become acceptable, as it has with premarital sex, talking on your phone in public, selfies and sending photos of your penis, unless that's still not O.K., in which case I was totally kidding. Still, it seems strange that less than a year ago, when Donald Trump announced his candidacy by saying that Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists," he was banished from the mainstream. NBC, which aired his Celebrity Apprentice and beauty pageants, declared it was "ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump." The Pope called him "not Christian," which is something so harsh the Pope has not even called me that, and my name is Joel Stein. Macy's discontinued its line of Trump clothing, and Serta stopped selling…