On Saturday,Brett McGurk,special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS, resigned in response to President Donald Trump‘s decision to withdraw troops from Syria. He follows Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who resigned earlier in the week, citing the same reason. McGurk was originally planning to leave the administration in early 2019, …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is marking the final installment of his Hamildrop series with a remake of Hamilton‘s “One Last Time” and he’s brought out some massive guests, including former president Barack Obama and actor Christopher Jackson with production from gospel great BeBe Winans and Alex Lacamoire. Aptly named the “44 Remix” …
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Four women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault against former Das Racist rapper Victor “Kool A.D.” Vasquez. Speaking to Pitchfork, the four women, including Vasquez’s estranged wife Saba Moeel, alleged instances of non-consensual sexual activity that occurred between 2006 and 2015. Moeel previously aired her allegations against Vasquez, …
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Vice President Mike Pence tweeted, and soon deleted, a photo on Friday showing him with a police officer who wore a patch with a “Q” patch, signaling belief in the QAnon conspiracy, prominently displayed on his uniform. QAnon is an internet-based baseless anti-government conspiracy theory that has been pushing the …
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Bob Dylan and Neil Young just announced that they’re going to headline an enormous concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 12th of next year. They haven’t appeared on the same bill since Desert Trip in 2016, though they played on different days of that festival. They haven’t actually performed …
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Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon, stars of AMC‘s latest John le Carré adaptation The Little Drummer Girl, talked about the six-hour miniseries, director Park Chan-wook and the still-ongoing Middle East crisis in this exclusive video interview with Rolling Stone. The Little Drummer Girl marks the first U.S. television directorial debut …
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The midterm election results are in, and in addition to winning control of the House of Representatives, Democratic candidates managed to unseat Republican incumbents in other key positions — including “the top two elected officials most determined to keep [Steven Avery] and [Brendan Dassey] convicted.” That’s how defense attorney Jerry …
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WASHINGTON —The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller referred to the FBI an apparent plot involving a lobbyist and conspiracy theorist who had reportedly offered to pay a woman to make sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller. The Atlantic reported Tuesday that Mueller’s office was alerted to the scheme by journalists …
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A dozen relatives of Nevada’s current attorney general and Republican candidate for governor, Adam Laxalt, penned an op-ed in the Reno Gazette Journal this week explaining why they think Laxalt should not be governor. Laxalt’s family, including an aunt and cousins, addressed their reasons for the writing the op-ed, saying …
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A former campaign adviser for President Trump recently told the Washington Post that the migrant caravan is a “political gift” for Republicans. With less than two weeks until the midterms, the president and his administration aren’t letting it go to waste. Trump is now spewing lies at his greatest clip …
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