Vladimir Putin was once asked how his background as a KGB officer helped him lead Russia. The main thing, Putin replied, was his experience “working with people.” According to Russia expert and Trump advisor Fiona Hill, this innocuous-sounding bit of “KGB jargon,” as she described it in her book, Mr. …
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President Trump, America’s top drama queen, did everything he could to infuse his second Supreme Court nomination with ratings-grabbing suspense and pageantry. But for queer Americans, there was only one question to be answered in Monday’s prime-time selection spectacle: Are we definitely screwed, or probably screwed? Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose …
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It’s hard to make it through 24 hours without discovering a new layer of corruption in Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency. The climate change denier has for months been mired in a dazzling array of scandalous allegations covering everything from exorbitant personal security expenditures, to an insatiable appetite for luxury …
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Amid the public outcry over President Trump’s family separation policy, the Supreme Court today cemented itself in the national conversation about how America treats foreigners. In a split 5-4 decision, the court let everyone who hoped that the justices would protect American citizens from the whims of Donald Trump know …
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Nothing Donald Trump has done in his 17 months as president has elicited as much disgust as his policy of dividing migrant families at the border. The separation of over 2,300 migrant children from their parents has led in recent weeks to real-life backlash against Trump administration officials. Department of …
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Perhaps frustrated by the media’s tepid response to his ho-hum Wednesday night appearance on The Ingraham Angle, former New York City mayor and current Trump law person Rudy Giuliani dialed it up for his Friday morning sit-down with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. The wild interview – which last nearly 45 minutes …
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On Friday night, President Trump sat behind bars inside a room in the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan. He was caged and handcuffed but blustery and defiant, sitting in a grease-stained pile of empty McDonald’s containers as a few rats – real, sourced from Brooklyn – nibbled on his shoes. …
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In our divided political climate, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: that despite his own insistence that he “knows words” and has “the best words,” President Donald Trump says a lot of idiotic things. Yesterday, Trump added to his best-hits catalog of stupid, claiming that the Democrats were treasonous …
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Minnesota Senator Al Frankenhas been accused of groping radio/TV host and model Leeann Tweeden without her consent during a USO Tour in December 2006. At the time, Franken had yet to run for public office and was on the tour as a comedian. Tweeden detailed her experience with Franken in …
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President Donald Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt may not want to talk about climate change right now, but judging from these storms, Mother Nature sure does. I began covering energy and climate change in 1990, shortly after George H. W. Bush was elected president and announced the fossil fuels …
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