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Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Image Donald Trump’s long-promised “big beautiful wall” is set to do more than just separate the United States from Mexico. It now seems to be coming between Trump and his fellow anti-immigrant racist, Chief of Staff John Kelly. On Wednesday evening, Kelly told Fox News’ Bret Baier that the president has “changed his attitude…
Getty Arianna Huffington was supposed to be Uber’s high-powered savior. When former Uber employee Susan Fowler came forward with an explosive piece last February detailing the ingrained culture of sexism at the company, Uber recruited Huffington, its only female board member, to help tackle the problem. Huffington told reporters that “going forward there can be…
Screengrab – Fox News According to his Ted Cruz-penned Twitter bio, Mark Steyn is an “International bestselling author, Top Five jazz recording artist, & a leading Canadian human rights activist.” (He also recorded—I kid you not—a moody, introspective cover of Mel Blanc’s classic “I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat.”) But based on his Thursday…
Alex Wong/Getty Images Sebastian Gorka, the Nazi-adjacent former adviser to president Donald Trump, has been the subject of an active warrant issued by Hungarian police in 2016, according to a report from BuzzFeed News on Thursday. Gorka, whose nebulous role at the White House was never fully defined during his eight-month tenure in the Trump…
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG The things Donald Trump had to say about Shark Week, according to Stormy Daniels, according to In Touch Weekly, are easy to chuckle over: He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.” Trump…
Unsubscribe Today, we celebrate Axios’ one year anniversary as a family. I know this because when I opened up my Axios AM daily newsletter (presented by Morgan Stanley) yesterday, Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Axios, had written in a post aggregated therein that on the occasion of the company’s first birthday, “I wanted…
Facebook Inc. FB 0.83% plans to start ranking news sources in its feed based on user evaluations of credibility, a major step in its effort to fight false and sensationalist information that will also push the company further into a role it has long sought to avoid—content referee. The social-media giant will begin testing the effort next week by…
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Facebook unveiled major changes Friday to the News Feed of its 2 billion users, announcing it will rank news organizations by credibility based on user feedback and diminish its role as an arbiter of the news people see. The move comes after the company endured harsh criticism for allowing disinformation to spread on its social…
An advertisement for a Black Friday sale is seen on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in November in downtown Los Angeles. PHOTO: ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Benjamin Mullin Jan. 19, 2018 2:30 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Employees at the Los Angeles Times have voted to unionize, a historic shift for a publication long resistant to…
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Aly Raisman delivered a 13-minute victim impact statement today in front of Ingham County Circuit Judge Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Larry Nassar himself, in which she excoriated not just Nassar for his sexual abuses against herself and nearly 150 other athletes, but also USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee for…