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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…

While hard-line Republicans have pushed back against progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over their Green New Deal resolution, the New York Democrat has found herself an unlikely new ally: a supporter of President Donald Trump. In a series of tweets on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez said she saw a man and his teenage son putting up a…

President Donald Trump came up with a nickname Friday for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg: Alfred E. Neuman — the freckle-faced, gap-toothed nerdy cover boy of Mad Magazine. But Buttigieg came back with his own zinger, slying dinging the 72-year-old president’s age, saying the outdated reference was a “generational thing.” Trump told Politico Friday that “Alfred E….

Law professor Anita Hill took to the pages of the New York Times on Thursday to rue America’s missed opportunity to effectively address sexual harassment and violence in 1991 during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, presided over by then-Sen. Joe Biden. It’s an opportunity that remains missed to this day, she wrote. The editorial was a slam…

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced Friday on Twitter that they have welcomed their fourth child, a son, via a surrogate. Click Here: “He’s here and he’s perfect!” Kardashian wrote about the newborn. A tweet that vague can easily be repurposed for all sorts of jokes, which is exactly what the Twitterverse did. So congrats to Kanye…

KERMIT, W.Va. ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) outlined her plan to tackle the opioid epidemic during a campaign stop Friday in a small West Virginia town where many attendees were just happy to see a politician show up. Kermit, with a population of 400, has been held up as an example of the nation’s opioid…