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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm former banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. (Reuters) The Senate confirmed Steven T. Mnuchin as treasury secretary Monday evening, putting an end to a contentious and protracted debate while adding another former banker to President Trump’s roster of advisers. Mnuchin ran a bank, OneWest, that foreclosed on tens…
Michael Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Monday night, amid a growing scandal over his contacts with Russian officials. The White House announced the resignation after days of uncertainty about Flynn’s fate after reports that he’d obfuscated the details of his conversations with Russian officials to Vice President Mike Pence and other…
A North Dakota state lawmaker has advice for any woman in his state seeking to go out with friends for some mimosas over Sunday brunch: You should be making your husband breakfast in bed instead. That’s not a joke. That’s what he actually said. “Spending time with your wife, your husband — making him breakfast, bringing it…
Mike and Jay discuss the often misunderstood and underappreciated sci fi action satire Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more? Show more Show less Starship Troopers – re:View – YouTube.
Yesterday, I asked readers how they felt about setting up independent commissions to handle redistricting in each state. Commenter Mitch Beales wrote: “It seems to me that an ‘independent panel’ is about as likely as politicians redistricting themselves out of office. This is the twenty-first century. How hard can it be to create an algorithm to…
On Saturday night, Frank Ocean went on Tumblr to address comments made by The Grammys’ creative team— producer Ken Ehrlich and writer David Wild—in an interview on Rolling Stone Music Now, the magazine’s podcast. Ehrlich and Wild responded to Ocean declining to submit his 2016 music (Blonde and Endless) for Grammy nomination, and specifically, his…
Melissa McCarthy reprised her guest role as Sean ‘Spicey’ Spicer in Saturday Night Live’s cold open. McCarthy didn’t do much to mix up the bag of tricks she’d drawn from in her first rendition last weekend (literally, the toys are back), continuing to play the White House press secretary as solidly, predictably unstable. You know…
Sears and Kmart have also dropped Ivanka Trump’s collection of Trump Home items, because no one wants to buy them. Sears Holdings, the parent company of both Sears and Kmart, patiently explained in a statement to ABC news on Saturday that they care too much about making money to continue selling the Trump line. “As…
The White House correspondents’ dinner is a fixture of the Washington scene, a spring event at which the cream of political journalism shares bonhomie, fine food and comedy roasting with the politicians it reports on – including the president. Under Donald Trump, however, the dinner is facing uncertainty. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked “the very…
Two weeks into the Trump Administration, thousands of documents detailing animal welfare violations nationwide have been removed from the website of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has been posting them publicly for decades. These are the inspection records and annual reports for every commercial animal facility in the U.S.—including zoos, breeders, factory…