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You Can be ‘Quite a Ridiculous Figure’: Michael Wolff Rips Stelter for Lecturing on ‘Virtues of the Media’ Please enable Javascript to watch. During an at times contentious exchange today on CNN’s Reliable Sources, The Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff criticized host Brian Stelter over the style and approach Stelter has taken of late on…
Donald Trump is obsessed with the media. And the media is obsessed with Trump. Let’s take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy. The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president and the press was during the Nixon administration. The current White House would…
The car-sharing service had faced criticism for trying to work with the new administration. Travis Kalanick is leaving President Donald Trump’s advisory council, according to a memo he sent to employees today. The Uber CEO had faced criticism for his agreement to work closely with the Trump administration, as well as the company’s response to…
Kellyanne Conway, left, Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus and Stephen Miller, all members of President Trump’s senior staff, last month at the White House. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is…
Nearly 100 companies, mostly based in the Bay Area, filed a legal brief challenging President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on Sunday, arguing that it hurts business and violates the Constitution. “The tremendous impact of immigrants on America — and on American business — is not happenstance,” the companies wrote in the brief, filed in the U.S….
Fresh challenges to President Trump’s court-frozen immigration order took shape Monday with two former secretaries of state claiming the White House was undermining national security and nearly 100 Silicon Valley tech companies arguing it will keep the best minds from coming to America. The powerful new voices were added with another legal showdown coming as…
Credit Bráulio Amado MILWAUKEE — If President Trump’s first tumultuous weeks have done nothing else, at least they have again made us a nation of readers. As Americans grapple with the unreality of the new administration, George Orwell’s “1984” has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, becoming a surprise best seller and an invaluable guide to…
If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss. That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair and lollipop-red lips, the youngest of the 26 children and staff members gunned down in 2012 at Sandy…
President Donald Trump (by Ali Shaker/VOA) Donald Trump will not deliver an economic boon for flyover people who want their twentieth-century economy back. His looming trade war will be bad for American business. His wall that Mexico will never, ever pay for will be bad for the national coffers. But lawyers are fittin’ to get…
Josh Rogin | Opinion Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order By Josh Rogin February 4, 2017 at 7:00 AM Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 31. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press) On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged…