Month: July 2019

Tuesday’s Democratic debate offered rich comic fodder for late-night television comedians, who picked out the most memorable and amusing moments. “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah went live after the debate and praised self-help author Marianne Williamson for discussing systemic racism in U.S. society. “Wow, Marianne Williamson, that was a powerful moment in the debate. I didn’t […]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The body of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger is expected to be exhumed in September from a concrete-encased grave at an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents outside a Chicago theater. The upcoming exhumation could put to rest conspiracy theories suggesting that the violent criminal […]

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If it seemed like John Delaney was always responding to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night, you’re not wrong. The CNN moderators went to Delaney 11 times during Tuesday’s Democratic debates as they tried to draw out the drama between the former Maryland congressman and the liberal senators from Massachusetts and Vermont. Despite […]

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Robert De Niro’s guest performances portraying Robert Mueller on “Saturday Night Live” have landed him an Emmy nomination and now the 75-year-old actor says he would’ve performed the former special counsel’s testimony before Congress last Wednesday very differently. In an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post, De Niro wrote that he would’ve engaged his method-acting expertise […]

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By April Simpson This is Part One of Stateline’s 2019 Legislative Review. Democrats started the year newly in control of six state governments. They used that power to quickly undo years of conservative policies. Nevada decriminalized abortion, Maine expanded access to it and Illinois made it a “fundamental right.” New Mexico began requiring background checks for […]

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