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America may get its most intimate look yet inside Robert Mueller’s secretive Russia investigation in the next four days, with a series of disclosures that have the potential to be greatly damaging for President Donald Trump. Court filings focusing on Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, on Tuesday and his ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort […]
Children talk to their toys as if they’re really listening, sometimes confiding in dolls and stuffed animals. Now toys are actually listening. And remembering. This holiday season, shoppers can buy “smart toys,” internet connected playthings equipped with microphones, cameras, and the ability to collect reams of data about children. Consumer advocates warn the toys pose […]
President Trump is expected to pay a condolence call to members of former President George H.W. Bush’s family today at Blair House, a government house across the street from the White House. This morning, Trump tweeted about spending time with the Bushes: Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. […]
Realistic looking toy guns can be deadly in the hands of black children. Ask Zahiem Salahuddin, the 13-year-old who was jailed for three days for shooting a smaller child with a toy gun. Maybe you could even ask Tamir Rice—except Tamir was killed two seconds after a Cleveland police officer saw him playing with a […]
Black and Hispanic Americans are less likely to smoke cigarettes than white Americans. Yet once they’ve started, they’re more likely to stay hooked. National data show they successfully quit only about half as often as white smokers. These communities often have less access to nicotine-replacement therapy and counseling that can help them quit. But experts […]
George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday at the age of 94. Former President George W. Bush released a statement, saying for himself and his siblings, “Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died … “The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41’s […]
CNN fired liberal pundit Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, following controversial statements he made about Israel at the United Nations. “Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a network spokesperson said in an email. Speaking at a pro-Palestine meeting at the U.N. on Wednesday, Hill called for a “free Palestine from the […]
In a defeat for President Donald Trump, black Republican Sen. Tim Scott announced Thursday that he can’t support his controversial judicial nominee Thomas Farr, torpedoing the nomination. Scott said in statement that he could not support Farr because of his role in a voter suppression scheme. “I am ready and willing to support strong […]
In two major developments this week, President Donald Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name: “Individual 1.” New evidence from two separate fronts of special counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation casts fresh doubts on Trump’s version of key events […]
President Donald Trump is sending an unmistakable and daringly public message to his jailed ex-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, that his defiance of special counsel Robert Mueller could eventually see him walk free from jail. And Trump’s move — delivered in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday — is more than just an […]
Former Donald Trump fixer Michael Cohen, best known for his involvement in paying off por star Stormy Daniels in connection with a nondisclosure agreement in connection with an alleged sexual liaison with Donald Trump, is in federal court this morning where he is expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress about the Russia investigation. […]
As a drug crisis has moved Kensington to the center of a debate on how best to treat addiction, we’ve largely failed to see the connection to the crisis taking place on America’s southern border. Right now in the heart of Kensington, a throng of homeless heroin addicts is gathered beneath a bridge on Emerald […]