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Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, stood before the Democratic convention on Thursday, July 28 and blasted Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants. Here’s what happened next. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) By Ghazala Khan July 31 at 9:45 AM Ghazala Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was…
Happily, her work on the application had required that she meet with Mr. Sturtevant. When he asked her out for drinks at the Barclay Hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan, she wore a little navy dress from Ohrbach’s, with her hair in a bun. After a few martinis, she walked him back to her apartment. A…
“Cock up yuh bumpa, siddung pon it!” I knew the words, but they were coming from an unfamiliar voice. Drake’s quick interpolation of Popcaan’s 2014 hit “Love Yuh Bad” on Views’ “Too Good” felt stilted, an awkward attempt to reconcile the fact that Poppy was missing from the album’s cut of “Controlla.” For many American…
.entry-header Dr. Dre performs onstage at the Coachella festival April 23, 2016, in Indio, Calif. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella Dr. Dre was handcuffed outside his Malibu, Calif., home Monday after a white driver called police and said he was brandishing a gun. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, Dre told the cops that…
The full extent and true nature of the “blatant hate” that has beset post-Brexit Britain is today detailed for the first time after The Independent was given exclusive access to a database of more than 500 racist incidents compiled in the weeks since the EU referendum. The hatred that has divided British society in…
The morning after Fox News chief Roger Ailes resigned, the cable network’s former director of booking placed a call to the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate sexual-harassment allegations against Ailes. Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than…
I just want to say—I see you Otto Beatty, Jr. and I salute you. The Beattys are over here like “Oh, you want to just borrow parts of the First Lady’s speech? That’s cool. I drink your milkshake. I drink it right up!” Getty Saul Loeb Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, you’re an American…
Hillary Clinton became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to ever head a major US party’s ticket. Many American newspapers showed a picture of her husband instead. Here’s the Chicago Tribune (all front pages via the Newseum): The Houston Chronicle: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette! Bill Clinton spoke last night, and his speech…
The American way of life is under siege by a group of activists who want nothing less than to not be shot. via Most Lives Matter | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube. Source: Most Lives Matter | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Messages sent to Mr. Ailes’s lawyers seeking comment were not returned. Female staff members told of problems with other supervisors as well. One current employee said that she was with a male supervisor in a closed-door, one-on-one meeting in 2009 when she asked to work on an assignment. He turned to her and said, “Sure,”…