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The officials even offered an odd sort of reassurance, pointing out that the mine’s administrative offices were right below the dam.

Mitski’s songwriting is often spiked with a dark, sharp sense of humor. The visual for her shrugging, contemplative Puberty 2 single “Your Best American Girl,” directed by longtime collaborator Zia Anger, brings that wit to the forefront, trapping the Japanese-American artist in a love triangle with an all-too-familiar cute white hipster and his Coachella-ready girlfriend as the song’s lyrics muse on cultural clashes and ethnic identity. It’s hard not to roll your eyes as the couple cuddles naked under an American flag (seriously, guys?), leaving our heroine to make out with her own hand like a lovesick middle-schooler, channeling rage into electric guitar. Not too much subtlety here, but the video’s almost uncomfortably on-the-nose references are exactly what make it so brilliant, with just the right dose of funny. – TATIANA CIRISANO

“Lava bombs” can weigh as much as a refrigerator and even small pieces of spatter can be lethal, officials said.

Assays for the remaining 400 metres of the drill hole are expected in the coming weeks.  A wedge hole KHDDH488a as been initiated to test up-dip of this intercept and define the orientation of the high-grade bornite mineralisation.

Two estranged friends rediscover their profound incompatibility over dinner, only to learn that the one thing they share might force them together, forever.  (World Premiere)

Drifting snow obscures a road near Mount Joy in Lancaster County, Pa., on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2019. A bitter deep freeze is moving into the Northeast from the Midwest, sending temperatures plummeting and making road conditions dangerous. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

We have not actually made a determination. Our typical schedule is yearend, and I’m not envisioning that we’re planning to change that. Or any . . .

And its not a trope everyone likes in Trek. I actually wasn’t that excited about it either once I saw what it was about, but then when we got the details and its connection to Trek canon like tying it into WW 3 gets Trek fans excited lol. They are trying to make it clear Discovery is very much part of the PU.

One of the sweetest gifts of 2018 was the foundation of boygenius, the all-too-perfect supergroup of indie singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Their self-titled, six-track EP’s magnum opus is its second track, “Me & My Dog," which plays magically into each member’s strengths while never failing to lose track of its imagery or its feeling. Bridgers runs point, opening with two verses about being so in love with her partner that she forgets to eat and sleep, building to the penultimate line they all sing, “I wanna be emaciated” — a declaration that the relationship in question may not have been perfect, but it’s better than the alternative. And what about the dog? The final line finds the trio wishing they could escape on a spaceship, with nothing but their pup “and an impossible view.” – XANDER ZELLNER

Commuters braves the wind and snow in frigid weather, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Cincinnati. The extreme cold and record-breaking temperatures are crawling into a swath of states spanning from North Dakota to Missouri and into Ohio after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region earlier this week. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ice covers the observation deck at the base of Horseshoe falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Tara Walton/The Canadian Press via AP)

With the music video running double the length of the song, Gaga’s Jonas Åkerlund-directed "Paparazzi" covers a lot of ground: Attempted murder by Alexander Skarsgård, the successful murder of Alexander Skarsgård, old movie homages, Mickey Mouse-esque flip-up glasses, and some of the fiercest looks from Stefani’s early avant-dance diva days. The image of crutch-bound Gaga staggering across a purple carpet like Evil Robot Maria from Metropolis – while her dapper backup dancers vogue behind her – made it clear that unlike most pop stars on the planet, Gaga was here to get weird. And in 2009, we devoured it like the fame-obsessed monsters she was sending up. – J. Lynch