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There's a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century. Just glance at the "chronology" section of "A Grace Paley Reader" , a welcome new collection of her short stories, nonfiction, and poems, edited by Kevin Bowen and Paley's daughter, Nora.
In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education.
Reince Priebus insists Trump still wants the power to sue news outlets -and says changing libel laws 'is something that we've looked at' White House chief of staff says a looser libel lawsuit standard is something that has been discussed inside the administration Trump first raised the idea of taking the NY Times and The Washington Post to court in a February 2016 campaign rally, pledging to 'sue them and win money' The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a free press, and a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling sets a very high bar for proving news libel At Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner, comic Hasan Minhaj said Trump had boycotted the event because he 'doesn't care about free speech' White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said on Sunday that loosening America's libel laws to allow the president to sue news outlets over unflattering coverage 'is something that ... (more)
In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd- Bennett speaks before leaving federal court in Chicago, after she pleaded guilty to helping steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes while working for CPS. A federal judge in Chicago is scheduled to sentence Byrd-Bennett Friday, April 28, 2017.
There's lots of bad poll numbers out there for President Donald Trump these days. He has historically low job approval ratings, and nearly 6 in 10 voters believe he lacks the judgment or personality to be an effective president, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Former FOX News reporter Alisyn Camerota is the latest female reporter to claim Roger Ailes harassed her. Camerota accused Ailes of asking her to meet him in a hotel room.
The removal of conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly from his top-rated Fox News show over allegations of sexual harassment "is an important next step to clean up Fox News and make it a respectful and professional work environment", says the attorney representing Gretchen Carlson in her harassment case against Roger Ailes-the network's founding President who left the company a year ago in a scenario that mirrors O'Reilly's departure. Fox News Channel announced Wednesday O'Reilly has immediately departed the network.
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The White House is eyeing Wednesday as a target date for a vote on an Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, according to a report, but a Republican aide on Capitol Hill said there is no text of a bill yet. The Washington Post's Robert Costa tweeted that a top White House official said aides to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will circulate revised language on a health-care bill Thursday evening.
To simply label the Trump administration as a herd of hypocrites undersells a tremendous capacity to lie without shame. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump and his surrogates freely leveled a variety of accusations at Hillary Clinton and her team, but often the three fingers pointing back at themselves told the real story.
A7-year-old Syrian refugee whose tweets from war-torn Aleppo won her a global following is writing a book. Bana Alabed's Dear World will recount her experiences in Syria and how she and her family rebuilt their lives as refugees.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it. Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it.
In this April 1, 2017 file photo, Republican GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes with his wife Susan Estes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Republicans escaped a special House election in Kansas with a single-digit victory in a district where they have romped in the past, an early warning sign for the GOP at the start of Donald Trump's presidency.
In this May 13, 2011 file photo, historian and author David McCullough poses at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington. McCullough's latest book, "The American Spirit," is a collection of talks he has given over the past 30 years.
President Trump listens as he and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on April 12. Addressing the United Nations last fall, President Obama took a moment to highlight for fellow world leaders what he called "the most important fact" about the state of the global affairs: human existence on planet Earth is good - and getting better. War is down, he said, while life expectancy is up.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers remarks at the Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria on Friday in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday appeared to offer differing views on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Bill O'Reilly is the signature star of the Fox News Channel - in so many ways. He has the biggest ratings, the biggest profile, and the longest track record of saying whatever he damn well wants and getting away with it.
Shortly after House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled the Republican health-care plan on March 6, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office and queried his advisers: "Is this really a good bill?" And over the next 18 days, until the bill collapsed in the House on Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat - the sharpest rebuke yet of Trump's young presidency and his negotiating skills - the question continued to nag at the president.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told journalists on Friday that there would not be a vote on the GOP-sponsored American Health Care that day. Ezekiel Emanuel is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Prescription for the Future," which is scheduled to be published in June.