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Barrier Status: ‘none’ Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began…
Image copyright AP A shooting in the US city of Baton Rouge has left three police officers dead and three more injured, one critically. The gunman was shot dead at the scene. This is what we know so far about what has happened. Baton Rouge shooting: As it happened What happened? The shooting was near…
The Tamir Rice Story: How to Make a Police Shooting Disappear Maybe you heard about the Tamir Rice case and wondered: How does a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun on a playground get shot to death on-camera by the police without anyone getting charged? Put another way: How does a small group of…
I do not know how to explain what I just watched. It should be easy. Donald Trump introduced Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. There it is. One sentence. Eleven words. But that doesn’t explain what happened any better than “I spent a few hours letting lysergic acid diethylamide mimic serotonin in my…
Hhenderson777/WikipediaP.J. O’Rourke once called Hillary Clinton “a chowder-skull” and “a bossy little rich snoot of a goody-two-shoes.” So it surprised a lot of people when the political humorist announced that he’s voting for her. Clinton, O’Rourke said on the May 7 episode of the NPR show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, was “the second worst thing…
From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump’s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it’s like to be one of them. McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Jul. 17, 2016, at 9:29 p.m. Tweet Tumblr Donald Trump…
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The CIA has a long history of “spooking the news,” dating back to its earliest days when the legendary spymaster Allen Dulles and his top staff drank and dined regularly with the press elite of New York and Washington, and the agency boasted hundreds of U.S. and foreign journalists as paid and unpaid assets. In…
A brochure from Mike Pence’s 1988 House race, the first of two election defeats that helped shape Pence’s future political image. (Congressman Philip R. Sharp Papers/Ball State University Libraries) Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal. Campaign finance records from…
Video Reports of Officer Shooting There were reports of gunfire and an officer being wounded in Baton Rouge on Sunday near where protests have been held since the police shooting of Alton Sterling on July 5. By TWITTER on Publish Date July 17, 2016. Photo by Mike Kunzelman/Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » The…