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Kong: Skull Island · Film Review King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island · Movie Review · The A.V. Club

A.A. Dowd010 mins

Against a bright orange sun, a giant gorilla towers in silhouette, helicopters buzzing around his head like angry insects. It’s as if that artist who paints monsters onto thrift-store paintings got his hands on the Apocalypse Now poster. Airlift out this most striking and revealing image, however, and Kong: Skull Island would still announce its subtext with all the subtlety of,…

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Police allege IT worker at Washington Post was impersonating ICE officer – The Washington Post

Dan Morse05 mins

An IT worker at The Washington Post impersonated a federal law enforcement officer in Northern Virginia and was seen wearing a ballistic vest bearing the label “ICE” across the front, according to police allegations filed in Montgomery County District Court. Itai Ozderman, 35, of Gaithersburg was suspended by The Post on Monday, his attorney Thomas…

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Supreme Court Won’t Decide Transgender Teen’s Challenge To Bathroom Policy : The Two-Way : NPR

BILL CHAPPELL05 mins

  END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” The case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, seen here last year, has been sent back to a lower court by the Supreme Court.   Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption   Steve Helber/AP   The case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, seen…

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NowThis to expand into investigative journalism and long-form video – Digiday

AramZS06 mins

Short-form news video giant NowThis is getting into long-form programming, original shows and investigative journalism. The company is embarking on an “aggressive hiring plan” to support the production of more original news reports and video series, according to Athan Stephanopoulos, president of NowThis. Parent company Group Nine Media received a $100 million investment from Discovery…

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Trump’s charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory – The Washington Post

Karen Tumulty010 mins

Donald Trump’s presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails. The president’s accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” escalated on Sunday into the White House’s call for a congressional investigation of that evidence-free claim. The audacious tactic was a familiar one…

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Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws – The Washington Post

Kristine Phillips016 mins

An arrest is made during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement operation in Los Angeles on Feb. 7. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Associated Press) Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of…

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Financiers Fight Over the American Dream – The New Yorker

Sheelah Kolhatkar097 mins

  Bill Ackman saw his hedge fund’s crusade against Herbalife as a moral battle with a billion-dollar payday.CreditIllustration by Mike McQuade / Photograph by Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ One day in the summer of 2011, Christine Richard arrived at the forty-second floor of a high-rise on Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan to visit a…

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FBI Director Comey asked Justice officials to refute Trump’s unproven wiretapping claim – The Washington Post

Abby Phillip and Ellen Nakashima017 mins

President Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping his calls in Trump Tower. Here’s a timeline of their relationship since inauguration. (Thomas Johnson,Claritza Jimenez,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of…

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