Seth Meyers dissected the latest developments surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on “A Closer Look” on Late Night Monday. The segment opened with President Donald Trump‘s bizarre press conference Monday, where he was supposed to discuss his new trade deal but was inevitably side-tracked by questions about the FBI’s …
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In conjunction with Paul Manafort’s guilty plea Friday before the federal District Court of Washington, D.C., Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed 76 pages of “Superseding Criminal Information,” detailing wrongdoing by the disgraced Republican lobbyist who served as chair of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. In the document, outlining Manafort’s illegal financial …
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What does a Trump administration official have in common with a woman fleeing gang violence in El Salvador and a student in Iran speaking out against Ahmadinejad? They share the rare distinction of having written anonymous op-eds for the New York Times. On Wednesday, the Times published an anonymous op-ed …
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Last month, the Trump administration instituted a new “zero tolerance” policy directed at migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally. Anyone captured would be prosecuted as a criminal, meaning parents and children crossing together would be separated, as minors cannot accompany adults to federal detention centers. Over 2,000 children …
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WASHINGTON—President Trump interrupted Thursday’s “executive time”– his ritual morning Twitter kvetch – to make some actual news: Dinesh D’Souza is a long-standing member of the conservative movement’s trigger-the-libs faction. He began as something of a right-wing wunderkind with his critiques of academia and liberal campus culture, but over time has …
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Just a few days aftera weekend Twitter meltdown that featured a call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI “infiltrated” his campaign for political purposes, President Trump on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning fired off another torrent of tweets about the same subject. He even decided on …
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In a surprise announcement Wednesday morning, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told colleagues he will not seek re-election in November. The decision saves Ryan from a potentially humiliating re-election battle in Wisconsin, where recent special election results had Gov. Scott Walker sounding the alarm about a “Blue Wave.” The …
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The AR-15 assault rifle was engineered to create what one of its designers called “maximum wound effect.” Its tiny bullets – needle-nosed and weighing less than four grams – travel nearly three times the speed of sound. As the bullet strikes the body, the payload of kinetic energy rips open …
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Jimmy Kimmel is reveling in the latest development in the Stormy Daniels saga after President Trump’s lawyer revealed Tuesday that he personally paid the porn star and alleged mistress, which would make her NDA void. “This might be the best of all. This might be lie No. 1,” Kimmel said …
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Abig story hit the news this week after a joint investigation by ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker. Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Jesse Eisenger, Justin Elliott and Ilya Marritz discovered that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance dropped a potential felony fraud case against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., before a campaign …
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