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On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, the longtime lawyer for President Donald J. Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels one month prior to the 2016 presidential election. According to the Journal, the payment was made “as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing…
A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Michael Cohen, who spent nearly a decade as a…
President Donald Trump is considering a military strike against North Korea that his advisers hope, somehow, wouldn’t lead to war. It’s called the “bloody nose” strategy, and it’s based off of the idea that if America launched a limited military strike against North Korea — say, by attacking one of their facilities — that they could…
Image: Screengrab via Twitter Товарищи, Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya’s Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland. Fellow deep cover Russian operatives, you may remember…
Getty A March Madness-style bracket to find the most loathed man in media might include Rupert Murdoch biographer, movie theater scofflaw, and resident killjoy Michael Wolff as its No. 1 overall seed. The ornery press critic is, as Fox News’ Howard Kurtz once said with understatement, “rarely impressed by anyone other than himself.” And immediate…
Time, as they say, makes fools of us all. Others might say that so too does an animatronic facsimile of the 45th President of the United States. On Wednesday, actor and comedian Jay Malsky shared a video of his recent visit to Walt Disney World in Florida, where he attended the theme park’s “Hall of…
Image via Getty The political tell-all has become a lucrative option for former politicians, hacks, and hangers-on who wish to turn onetime proximity to power into a big payday. In just the last year, Barack and Michelle Obama inked a post-White House joint memoir deal that included a reported $65 million advance, and Hillary Clinton…
The US government has announced significant cuts in its United Nations budget obligations for 2018-2019 in what will be interpreted as a further ratcheting up of pressure from the Trump administration looking to bend decision-making at the international body to its will. In a statement released over the holiday, the US Mission to the United…
PlayJonathan Ernst/Reuters WATCH The House passes the biggest tax overhaul in 3 decades President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed congressional Republicans’ ambitious $1.5 trillion rewrite of the tax code as a win for middle class Americans. Interested in Taxes? Add Taxes as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Taxes news, video,…
CNN Despite a last ditch effort by protesters to appeal to any vestige of shame or dignity from within the GOP, House Republicans on Tuesday voted in favor of a tax overhaul that will give a giant boost to the ultra-rich while dramatically screwing over most ordinary citizens. The final vote was 227-203, with 12…