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President Trump boasts that Red Sox swept a sub-.500 team thanks to him
There’s a particular subset of Donald Trump tweets in which he tries to take credit for things for which he obviously deserves no credit. This is different than that genre of tweets in which Trump claims, retroactively, to have been right about something, a prolific genre of its own. Here,...
‘Empire’ will end after next season, Jussie Smollett’s fate uncertain
Fox announced Monday that the upcoming sixth season of “Empire” will be its last. The drama’s renewal was announced earlier this month, with the network stating it had “no plans” to include embattled actor Jussie Smollett in the upcoming season. Fox noted at the time that Smollett’s option had been...
IHOP Mother’s Day tweet of pancakes in a sonogram falls flat
In an effort to celebrate Mother’s Day, IHOP offered its love to mothers everywhere by sharing a photoshopped sonogram of a woman’s womb full of pancakes, jokingly suggesting in a tweet that eating the breakfast favorite might cause a food baby to grow in the uterus. On Sunday morning, right...
Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing lawsuit targeting App Store to proceed
Apple suffered a significant defeat at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices ruled that consumers could forge ahead with a lawsuit against the iPhone giant over the way it manages its App Store. The 5-4 decision could spell serious repercussions for one of Apple’s most lucrative lines of...
At least 6 killed in Burkina Faso church attack
DAKAR, Senegal — Gunmen killed at least six people at a Catholic church in the West African nation of Burkina Faso on Sunday and then torched the worship space, town officials told local reporters. The attack during morning Mass occurred in the country’s restive north, where terrorists linked to the...
Larry Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers, not China, pay for tariffs on importsVideo
WASHINGTON — National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump’s repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill. In an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” two days after U.S.-China trade talks ended with...
‘SNL’ asks is there anything Trump could do to lose Republican senatorsVideo
President Donald Trump famously declared that he wouldn’t lose any voters if he had shot someone in the middle of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. If the first two years of his presidency have shown anything, that statement could be amended to say he wouldn’t lose votes from Republican senators, who have...
Sheet-pan suppers are easy, adaptable way to get it on the table fast
Sheet-pan suppers. You’ve seen the cookbooks, the blogs, the artfully arranged Instagram snapshots. It can be easy to roll your eyes at the ubiquity of the concept, but there’s a reason — quite a few actually — why these all-in-one dinners are so popular. Cookbook author Molly Gilbert found the...
Trump’s interest stirring Ukraine investigations sows confusion in Kiev
MOSCOW — As President Trump and his inner circle appear increasingly focused on Ukraine as a potential tripwire for Joe Biden and Democrats, officials about to take power in Kiev are pushing their own message: Leave us out of it. Supporters of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky — who is expected...
A group raised over $20 million to ‘build the wall.’ Now its supporters want answers.
A December fundraising campaign brought in more than $20 million over the course of a few weeks, its thousands of donors united by a common goal: the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, oft-promised by President Donald Trump. Some four months later, a contingent of those supporters is...
Jim Fowler, intrepid host of ‘Wild Kingdom’ nature series, dies at 89
He was charged by a herd of 200 elephants, escaping only with the help of a flatbed truck, and was once knocked unconscious by a surly chimpanzee named Mr. Moke, who punched him “square between the eyes.” But neither incident compared to the time a 22-foot anaconda swallowed his arm,...
Florida man regrets trying to pawn his baby for laughs on Snapchat
Brian Slocum thought he had a pretty good idea for a joke. The 43-year-old was driving down the main commercial thoroughfare in Sarasota, Florida, on Tuesday evening when he spotted A&F Pawn Jewelry and Loan, nestled in between a vape shop and a beauty salon in a shell-colored strip mall....
Fact-checking the Trump administration’s immigration fact sheet
When we see politicians or government officials writing fact checks of their own, we break out our magnifying glass. Today, we’re inspecting a new “myth vs. fact” document from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the arm of the Justice Department that runs the U.S. immigration court system. The...
After shouting match breaks out, Alabama Senate tables controversial abortion voteVideo
After a shouting match broke out, the Alabama Senate on Thursday abruptly delayed a vote on a bill that would outlaw most abortions in the state and make performing the procedure a felony punishable by up to 99 years imprisonment. The tumult and yelling on the Senate floor began when...
With bullpen struggling, should Nationals consider using an opener?Video
The Washington Nationals are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Manager Dave Martinez is having to answer tough questions after his team dropped to 14-22 with Wednesday afternoon’s 7-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, which included a 6-0 deficit in the second inning. Injuries are part of the problem...
‘Art of the Deal’ co-author calls for Trump book to be pulled or ‘recategorized’ as fiction
Decorated in eye-catching gold lettering, President Donald Trump’s 1987 memoir - a self-described “common sense guide to personal finance” - is touted as “a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker.” But following news this week that Trump reported more than $1 billion in financial losses to the...
A frustrated Trump questions his administration’s Venezuela strategy
WASHINGTON — President Trump is questioning his administration’s aggressive strategy in Venezuela as a result of the failure of a U.S.-backed effort to oust President Nicolás Maduro, complaining he was misled about how easy it would be to replace the socialist strongman with a young opposition figure, according to administration...
Denver voters approve decriminalization of ‘magic mushrooms’
Voters in Denver approved the nation’s first referendum on decriminalizing hallucinogenic mushrooms Tuesday. Though it took election officials until Wednesday afternoon to tabulate the vote, 50.6% of the 176,000 voters picked “yes,” and 49.4% voted no. The voters endorsed a change in Denver law that will require police to make...
Uber and Lyft drivers strike for pay transparency
SAN FRANCISCO – Uber and Lyft drivers in multiple cities nationwide launched strikes and demonstrations Wednesday to lobby for better pay and transparency. The demonstrations, which could prove disruptive to riders and raise the profile of movements to secure better driver pay and benefits, highlight a contradiction: Technology has long...
Tax returns from ’80s and ’90s reveal Trump lost over $1 billion in business deals
Donald Trump reported $1.17 billion in financial losses to the IRS between 1985 and 1994, a massive run of red ink that kept him from paying income taxes during most of that period, according to a report published late Tuesday in The New York Times. The Times said it had...
U.S. asylum screeners to take more confrontational approach at southern border
The Trump administration has sent new guidelines to U.S. asylum officers, directing them to take a more skeptical and confrontational approach during interviews with migrants seeking refuge. It is the latest measure aimed at tightening the nation’s legal “loopholes” Homeland Security officials blame for a spike in border crossings. According...
FBI Director Christopher Wray tells Congress he has no evidence of ‘spying’ on Trump campaignVideo
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that he would not call the investigation of Trump campaign advisers in 2016 “spying” — distancing himself from language used by President Trump and Attorney General William Barr. “That’s not the term I would use,” Wray said in response to a question...
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters freed from Myanmar prison
HONG KONG — Two Pulitzer-winning Reuters journalists held in Myanmar for more than 500 days for their coverage of the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims were freed from jail Tuesday, ending a prolonged detention that has tainted Myanmar and its Nobel laureate civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Wa Lone and...
Dave Chappelle to receive 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Dave Chappelle, among the most lauded and oft-quoted stand-up comedians of his generation, will receive comedy’s most prestigious accolade: the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Chappelle, 45, who will be honored at a star-studded gala on Oct. 27, joins the ranks of past recipients, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus,...
Build more activity into your day using the NEAT way
While writing this paragraph, I stood up and sat back down five times, swiveled in my chair, walked to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, brushed my dog, made my bed and performed at least six seated leg crisscrosses with my feet raised a good 12 inches off...
