The National Zoo’s female giant panda has given birth to a cub after five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years.
Mei Xiang gave birth Sunday at 10:46 p.m., the zoo said. The staff can hear the cub but has yet to see it because Mei Xiang has built a large nest in her den.
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(Mei Xiang is shown here in an AP file photo from 2005.)
Today in the Point: a look back 150 years at what the bloodbath at Antietam can teach us about war today.
The most famous magazine editor of her generation is engaged in a desperate and operatic struggle, which almost no one anywhere believes has any chance of success, to reinvent Newsweek as a sustainable business proposition.
Michael Wolff, in his first media column for USA TODAY, writes on Newsweek editor Tina Brown.
Still working on the edible pie charts …
Look, I don’t have the time it takes to decipher all these ‘graphics’ and ‘pictures.’ Can’t someone from the paper just call me up once a day and shout a word or two to let me know what’s going on?
The Onion takes to the street to see what the people think about our redesign.
(That’s a great idea, Sophie.)
