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A bill would eliminate criminal liability for domestic violence in Russia. Elizabeth Keatinge (@ekeatinge) has more. Buzz60 Russian lawmakers vote at the State Duma (lower parliament house) in Moscow, Jan. 27, 2017. The State Duma voted 380-3 to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn’t cause bodily harm, making it punishable by…
A statement from President Trump marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day omitted any mention of Jews or anti-Semitism, a departure from recent bipartisan precedent set by previous presidents. The statement calls for remembrance of “victims, survivors, heroes,” but nowhere does it mention the millions of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust, nor does it mention the…
PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post. The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts about how to make good on a long-standing…
Salon Media, whose sluggish stock had been surging in recent days on reports by The Post that an activist investor planned to buy a controlling stake in the company, is expected to formally reveal as soon as Friday that hedge fund Spear Point Capital is now the controlling shareholder, sources said. A new board of…
Salon Media, one of the trailblazing pioneers of digital publishing that has struggled in recent years, is on the brink of selling a controlling stake to activist investor Spear Point Capital, sources tell Media Ink. Spear Point would then use its control of Salon to make a run at Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com, one person familiar…
Spear Point is going to officially assume control of the Salon Media board Friday and Silicon Valley billionaire John Warnock, a co-founder of Adobe, is expected to step down as chairman, The Post has learned. The deal is expected to be announced Friday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. Warnock and another member…
Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is currently registered to vote in New Jersey and New York. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and one of his closest White House advisers, is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York, while White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is on…
In what is probably the best non-fake news you’ll read today: NYC has opened a COOKIE DOUGH CAFÉ. Taylor Miller / BuzzFeed It’s called Dō — and it opened this week in Greenwich Village. 2. The shop serves up raw, ready-to-eat dough that’s safe to eat on its own — because the dough is made with pasteurized eggs…
Smoke billows from stacks as a Chinese woman wears as mask while walking in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference that had been scheduled for next month in…
America Chavez is the queer Latina superhero the world sorely needs in Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ, border-loving nation. And now we have a sneak peek of what she’ll look like when she’s debuted as one of newest female-led titles: The image, of a “Formation”-inspired brown woman dressed in patriotic red, white and blue but with a grimace on…