In the final days before the presidential election, the Supreme Court has been pelted with requests from parties in battleground states seeking last minute approval to change election rules, especially regarding whether mail-in votes can arrive after Election Day and still be counted. The court, issuing some of the orders after hours, has navigated a…… MORE
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With Senate at risk, Trump focuses on himself
After President Donald Trump took the controversial step of commuting the jail sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, Sen. Susan Collins was again stuck between the leader of her party and the Trump-aligned voters she needs to win a tough reelection. The Maine Republican, who has built her political brand on being an independent…… MORE
Bob Dylan wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for Barbra Streisand, he revealed in a just-released 1971 interview
“His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean. And you are the best thing that he’s ever seen.” Bob Dylan‘s “Lay Lady Lay” was an instant hit. From Duran Duran to Ministry, countless music groups have taken a crack at one of the most popular love songs of the late ’60s. For decades, the…… MORE
Trump seems to strike a new tone on masks: ‘If you get close, wear a mask’
President Donald Trump struck a slightly new tone on mask-wearing at a rally on Thursday, telling a group of largely maskless, shoulder-to-shoulder supporters that he thinks wearing a mask is appropriate when social distancing isn’t possible. After making the case that “lockdowns” to prevent the spread of coronavirus don’t work, Trump told rallygoers in Tampa,…… MORE
Christie says Democratic hopeful in Montana governor’s race deceived him into trolling GOP opponent
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday blasted Montana Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney for unwittingly using him to troll his Republican opponent in the state’s gubernatorial race. In a Cameo video message posted earlier Thursday to Cooney’s Twitter account, Christie pleads with a person named “Greg,” urging them to move back to New…… MORE
Homeland Security officials echo Trump’s campaign border wall rhetoric days before election
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, flanked by several senior department officials, hyped the administration’s efforts to construct hundreds of miles of wall along the US-Mexico border while lavishing praise on President Donald Trump less than a week before Election Day. Thursday’s news conference in McAllen, Texas, is the latest in a string of media…… MORE
Defendant in federal case involving Rudy Giuliani associates pleads guilty
A defendant in the federal case against associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded guilty Thursday to making a false statement to the Federal Election Commission and defrauding investors in a fund. Former pro golfer and restaurateur David Correia and three other men — Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and Andrei Kukushkin — with ties to Giuliani were…… MORE
CBP chief says Twitter locked his account over border wall tweet
The Trump administration’s top border official, Mark Morgan, said Thursday that Twitter locked his account and removed a tweet regarding the effectiveness of the border wall. “The tweet basically read that walls absolutely are an important part of a multi-layer strategy that assist the men and women of CBP to apprehend criminals. That’s what my…… MORE
‘City So Real’ tries to get past the headlines with a deep but scattered portrait of Chicago
Chicago is a big, wonderful mess of a city, one that President Trump has turned into a political punching bag amid his “law and order” campaign cries. Filmmaker Steve James seeks to capture the Windy City’s complexity in “City So Real,” a five-part documentary that proves richly detailed but a bit too messy, pulling in…… MORE
Birx cedes White House turf to Atlas while hitting the road to spread her public health gospel
Dr. Deborah Birx emerged from a meeting at the White House one day in late summer with a new resolution: Never again would she sit in a meeting with Dr. Scott Atlas and listen to him pontificate on the pandemic. That’s when she went all-in on a plan to essentially abandon the White House and…… MORE
