Month: May 2019

(I) I was 17 when Steve and I got engaged, and just 20 when we married. Looking back now at my tender age and the 0-to-60 mph speed of our courtship leading up to that diamond ring, I see hints of the mania that would upend my life three decades later. I was in a…

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday dissected Donald Trump’s earlier claim on Twitter to be “your all time favorite President!” The host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” noted how Trump always has time “to pat himself on his humble back” as he recalled previous times the commander-in-chief has given himself the same praise. It was “all part…

A week before former National Rifle Association President Oliver North said he would not seek reelection after a failed attempt to oust CEO Wayne LaPierre, he warned the group that extraordinary legal fees threaten the future of the NRA. A series of documents posted anonymously online and verified by both The Daily Beast and The…

“Saturday Night Live” pulled out the stops to honor moms. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned to the comedy show to translate “mom talk” with Emma Thompson during her monologue — and a classic “SNL” video stripped down the reality of motherhood.  When moms say they want to just “relax in the backyard” for Mother’s…

Swarthmore College has banned Greek life after leaked documents showed one fraternity joked about sexual assault, made anti-LGBTQ remarks and harbored a “rape attic” in its house. “Fraternities and sororities will no longer exist at the College,” President Valerie Smith said in a statement Friday, adding, “Exclusive, dues-paying social organizations no longer effectively meet the needs…

Click:Glass candle container WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Friday raised taxes on American importers by tens of billions of dollars, costs that consumers will soon be paying on everything from clothes to electronics to frozen seafood. Tariffs on thousands of Chinese products totaling more than $200 billion each year that Trump originally imposed at 10…

A profile of Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in The Atlantic paints the power-grabbing far-right leader as snidely anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic, and an enemy of a free press and intellectuals. America’s ambassador to Hungary, David Cornstein, a friend for decades of Donald Trump, told the magazine that the president would “love to have the situation…

Stephen Colbert delighted in mocking President Donald Trump over his reported nearly $1.2 billion business losses from 1985 to 1994 on Friday’s broadcast of “The Late Show.” “That is unbelievable,” said Colbert. “I’m not exactly sure how to describe someone with losses like that.” He then aired a montage of Trump describing multiple different people…

Pete Souza turned to Twitter to mock President Donald Trump over his further raising of tariffs on products imported into the U.S. from China. The ex-White House photographer is a frequent critic of the Trump administration on Instagram, where he often shares snarky captions alongside images he took covering former President Barack Obama’s time in…

Royalty descended on the Houston Rockets’ NBA Playoffs home game against the Golden State Warriors on Friday night. Queen Bey (aka Beyoncé) and Queen Daenerys Targaryen (aka “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke) were spotted courtside at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.  Clutch, the Rockets’ mascot, cracked a joke about the rogue cup goof…