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Pick your metaphor for the last eight years of American politics. Sewer or garbage truck? Practically every day a helpless nation watches a new scrap of official grift, crime, abuse of public trust revealed and tossed into the churning dumpster of history. Most of us identify this era with Donald Trump, who sailed down a golden escalator in the summer of 2015 and lit the dumpster fire. But in his bracing history of American conservative hustlers, The Longest Con, veteran political writer Joe Conason... Читать дальше...

It’s one of those moments that is tattooed on your brain forever—if your brain is the kind that is fully occupied by an encyclopedic memory of inane political moments that normal people forget: Donald Trump steps out onto the stage for the first debate of the 2016 Republican primary, fields the first question, and retorts, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” when debate moderator Megyn Kelly, then of Fox News, reminded him, “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals,’” et cetera. Читать дальше...

A spacecraft is attempting something unusual and groundbreaking this week. It will harness the gravity of the Earth and Moon to slingshot its way to the other side of the solar system.

Senate Republicans are worried that former President Trump could be blowing their chances of winning back the majority as he flails in his response to Vice President Harris’s surge of momentum, according to GOP aides and strategists. Harris has narrowed Trump’s lead in Republican-leaning Senate battlegrounds such as Ohio and Florida and pulled ahead in...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) says a bipartisan energy bill would be a huge win for the climate; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says it would be a disaster. The Democratic caucus is divided over whether to support legislation that seeks to speed up the nation’s energy build-out — largely based on disagreements about what its actual...

A handful of leading Democrats are skipping their party's convention in Chicago this week, suggesting that some lawmakers want distance with their party's nominee even amid her euphoric reaction as the party's presumed nominee. Here’s some of the top Democrats who aren't attending the Democratic National Convention: Sherrod Brown Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), who...

Schools across the country are taking a variety of approaches on how to handle the teaching opportunity presented by the upcoming presidential election, but there is one thing they all seem to agree on: educator neutrality. Civics, government and history teachers must navigate a tumultuous, historic race as they guide classroom discussions around the showdown...

Technology CrowdStrike has hired DLA Piper to manage “policies and proposals related to congressional response to July 19, 2024 outage” that hit airlines and businesses around the world. Delta has threatened to sue CrowdStrike, saying the outage cost the airline $500 million, and the House Homeland Security Committee has requested CrowdStrike’s CEO testify before the...

CHICAGO - The last time Michelle Obama took the stage at the Democratic Convention in support of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, she stole the show with inarguably the most memorable line of the week, “When they go low, we go high.” Since then, Obama has all but disappeared from the political spotlight, reemerging only when...

Rodarte has teamed up with Saks to create a capsule collection inspired by Tim Burton's latest, "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."

From “The Talented Mr. Ripley” to “The Souvenir,” these are the most ravishing films set in Venice.

Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Giovani Lo Celso has already turned down approaches from various clubs this summer as the race for the midfielder’s signature... The post Fabrizio Romano reveals Spurs player has ‘rejected’ multiple offers this summer appeared first on The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News.

An historic switch in the presidential ticket. A polling shift. And a still-undefined nominee. That’s the backdrop to this week’s Democratic convention.

CDC's new IUD pain management guidelines are a step forward, but don't address all discomforts. IUD insertion, a popular birth control method, remains painful.

NASA and Boeing have been monitoring two issues with the Starliner spacecraft: one with a set of thrusters and the other involving helium leaks in the propulsion system.

Anne Mensah, Netflix’s U.K. VP of content, is one of the streamer’s most senior U.K. executives, overseeing scripted, unscripted, film and acquisitions. “Any content that comes out of the U.K. slate I look after in some way,” she explains before adding: “Or, more specifically, somebody who’s better than me looks after it and I cheer […]

He dumps them on us at every family gathering.

Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.

Assessing what the social movements of the 2010s accomplished

The rise of an academic theory and its obsession with Israel.

After Kamala Harris and Tim Walz coin “weird," they're defining normal through a surprising normcore video campaign with mundane acts like finding Doritos.

Joe Biden's address to the Democratic National Convention backing Kamala Harris came after emotional speeches from his daughter Ashley and wife Jill

Iran also tried to hack the Biden-Harris campaign but failed.