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Politics A woman’s place is in the house – The White House! Paddy Power pays out over $1m on Hillary Clinton victory Paddy Power is paying out to customers who backed Hillary Clinton to win the US election, with just weeks to go before America votes By Josh Powell on 18th October, 2016 With national…
In the Oct. 9 presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump denied acting on the sexual touching he described in video released by The Washington Post. Now, several women say he forced himself on them. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) When Donald Trump brought three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to the…
At first, it looks like the same old act. What could be more natural than a coiffed and bellicose Donald Trump, addressing a raucous crowd on a Friday afternoon in Manchester, New Hampshire, that great white-frustration campaign Mecca he blew through like a hurricane nine months ago during primary season? “It is terrific…
Credit Illustration by Barry Blitt Barrier Status: ‘none’ In late September, when Donald Trump spoke in Chester Township, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, he wasn’t the only star at the event. Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, who grew up nearby, and who has become ubiquitous on television, was greeted as a celebrity. “Did you see the…
Credit Photograph by Justin Sullivan / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (The Borowitz Report)—CNN launched an urgent manhunt Monday after Lester Holt, the moderator of the first Presidential debate of the 2016 general election, mysteriously vanished two minutes into the contest. Network officials became concerned after the two Presidential nominees, Donald J. Trump and…
American troops in the Pacific during the Second World War. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL POPPER / POPPERFOTO / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ I am late weighing in on this election—late in more ways than one. Monday brought my ninety-sixth birthday, and, come November, I will be casting my nineteenth ballot in a Presidential election. My…
Reporter David Fahrenthold got a phone call around 11 a.m. Friday from a source with a tip about Donald Trump. The source asked: Would Fahrenthold be interested in seeing some previously unaired video of Trump? Fahrenthold didn’t hesitate. Within a few moments of watching an outtake of footage from a 2005 segment on “Access Hollywood,”…
In the first week of August, just as Hillary Clinton began to pull ahead significantly in the polls, Donald Trump prophylactically claimed that the only way he will lose in November is if Clinton cheats her way to victory. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be…
With polls giving her a four-to-one lead over her closest rivals, it would seem like Hillary Clinton has good reason to be optimistic about her recently announced presidential campaign. After all, she is quite literally the odds-on favorite. However, although her frontrunner status will almost certainly give her huge advantages in fundraising, attracting attention from the…
Hillary Clinton is expected to announce she’s officially launching a campaign for president on Sunday, formally ending two years of speculation and expectation that she would run again. Many questions remain, among them: Will she embrace President Obama’s legacy or criticize the president, and on what? How partisan will she go and how early? What…