Actor Don Cheadle hosted Saturday Night Live this week, and one of the stories to come out of the show was not from the sketches but from Cheadle’s wardrobe choices between skits, which he used to make powerful political statements. When introducing musical guest Gary Clark Jr. for the second time, Cheadle …
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On Thursday night, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, wrote a blog post accusing American Media Inc.,of blackmail and extortion. Last month, the National Enquirer (owned by AMI) published a sprawling expose of Bezos’ affair with Lauren Sanchez, including salacious text messages, which ultimately led to …
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As FBI director J. Edgar Hoover became increasingly disturbed by the growing political power of the Civil Rights Movement — and paranoid about its possible connections to communists — he directed his agents to step up their surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hoover’s obsession with King bordered on the …
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President Donald Trump‘s firing of FBI Director James Comey triggered an FBI investigation as agents feared the president was working on behalf of the Russian government, theNew York Timesreported late Friday, citing law enforcement and others familiar with the investigation. This new reporting reveals that the investigation into Trump was …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a break from clapping back against conservatives on Twitter to sit down for a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The freshman congresswoman’s appearance on America’s highest-rated news program, which aired Sunday night, was the first extra-Internet opportunity for Ocasio-Cortez to broadcast some of her …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Index fell more than 400 points on Monday morning, continuing a downward trend, despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to calm investors’ nerves. In an unusual move, Mnuchin made a series of phone calls on Sunday to six banks to make sure they had enough …
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President Trump announced on Wednesday that ISIS had been defeated in Syria and that there was no longer any reason for American troops to be stationed there. Trump had spoken before about his desire to bring troops out of Syria, but the tweet announcing the decision came as a shock. …
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It’s often argued that climate change is not a technological or engineering problem, it is a political problem. And it’s true. We have all the technology we need to power the world with renewables and stave off the worst of climate chaos. What we lackis the political will to take …
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James Reader tried to do everything right. No fake news, no sloppiness, no spam. The 54-year-old teamster and San Diego resident with a progressive bent had a history of activism, but itched to get more involved. So a few years ago he tinkered with a blog called the Everlasting GOP …
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012, is back in the news. Last week, word of a sealed federal indictment involving him leaked out. The news came out in a strange way, via an unrelated case in Virginia. In …
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