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…
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Moms And Son Pay Sweet Homage To Mothers
“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 Bans Greek Life After Leaked Documents Show Culture Of Assault
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…
Trump Trade War Just Raised Taxes On Consumers By Tens Of Billions of Dollars
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…
Trump’s Envoy Pal: President Would Love The ‘Situation’ Of Hungarian Autocrat Viktor Orbán
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 Takes Donald Trump’s Favorite Insult, Fires It Right Back At Him
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…
Obama Photographer Invokes Ivanka Trump To Ding Donald Trump Over China Tariffs
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…
2 Queens Sat Courtside At The Rockets-Warriors Game, 1 Got Trolled On Big Screen
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…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Astonished’ By Trump Supporter Who Backs Her, Too
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…
Trump Calls Buttigieg ‘Alfred E. Neuman,’ Buttigeig Calls Trump Old
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….