WASHINGTON —It’s been an extraordinary 24 hours in the world of Paul Manafort. On Monday evening, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in an explosive new court filing that Manafort, the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman and Republican lobbyist, had lied to the FBI and the special counsel’s office despite signing …
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After years of free association, Jonathan Lethem’s idea for a new novel was finally coming together. He’d been sitting on themes likeferal children, detective novels and the American West his whole career, and now it was time to bring them to a hard boil. The final touch —after much internal …
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The Trump administration is poised to revoke the rights and protections guaranteed to some 1.4 million Americans who identify as transgender by redefining the legal definition of gender under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination in education on the basis of gender. This is according to …
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Nobody had high hopes for Trump’s environmental policy. He had, after all, said climate change was a hoax and sent out more than 100 skeptic tweetseven before running for president. But the speed, recklessness and spite with which his administration has sought to upend environmental protections has been breathtaking. Climate …
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, nervous about the optics of an all-male panel interrogating an alleged victim of sexual assault, gambled and hired a “female assistant” to question Christine Blasey FordThursday on their behalf.All 11 members of the Republican majority — including Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who called for …
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Former White House Communications Director Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci and Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti came together over a bottle of rose on Wednesday’s Late Show. The debate was over Rudy Giuliani’s success – or lack thereof – as thepublic face of President’s Trump’s legal team. Stephen Colbert introduced the …
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Quick, name someone who Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both know and venerate. Give up? Try Fedor Emelianenko, a 230-pound, Ukrainian-born MMA fighter, widely described as the best MMA scrapper of all time – and one of the scariest, battle-scarred combat veterans ever to have entered the octagon. Consider this …
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When Luke Harding sat down with Christopher Steele in a London pub in December 2016, he hoped Steele might help him develop an admittedly thin lead that Russia covertly financed Donald Trump‘s campaign. At the time, Steele was a relatively unknown former British intelligence officer, despite the fact that he …
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UPDATE: Omarosa Manigualt sat down for an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday to contend that she had not, in fact, been fired, but had decided to resign after one year in the White House. “I resigned, and I didn’t do that in the residence as reported,” she said. …
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Donald Trump became the talk of the sports world over the weekend by taking aim at the NFL and NBA. Not only did he “withdraw” the Golden State Warriors’ invitation to the White House after Stephen Curry made it clear he didn’t want to attend, Trump criticized NFL players for …
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