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Ex-Clinton volunteer slammed, loses job, after swipe at widow of fallen SEAL - A former Hillary Clinton volunteer drew swift condemnation - and lost his job - after mocking the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL who was honored by the president during his congressional address Tuesday night.
Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal to publish their memoirs with New York-based Penguin Random House, in a coveted contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. He has frequently declared himself to have a "writer's sensibility" and has said he does not want to write a conventional blow-by-blow account of his time in the White House.
The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump's political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement.
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency last year, Tom Perez, the freshly elected Democratic National Committee chair, might well be entering his second month running her Justice Department. Instead, Perez was welcomed into his new job on Saturday by jeering progressive activists, who for the second time in a year, saw their preferred pick to lead the party defeated after a protracted and unexpectedly feisty campaign.
Are these the biggest food lies ever? Hilarious photos reveal the misleading packaging that's led to some VERY disappointed customers EXCLUSIVE: How greedy Bill and Hillary Clinton befriended a Chinese fry cook in Little Rock who funneled hundreds of thousands in illegal donations from China and sold sleepovers at the White House for $400,000 a pop Are YOU going to cheat on your partner? Scientists reveal that women who do this one thing during sex are more likely to be unfaithful Millennial bowel cancer crisis: Young people are four times more likely to develop the disease than previous generations - due to their terrible diets Military Officer's Association SUV ends up ON TOP of high school band on Alabama Mardi Gras parade route, injuring 12 children aged 12-17, with four critically hurt 'The bacon is terrible, everyone is obsessed with the Royals and the locals are rude': Americans ... (more)
The recent controversy surrounding President Trump and his supposed ties to Moscow has always been a non-starter for me. We are supposed to believe the word of unnamed intelligence officials ensconced in the Beltway suburbs without a drop of firsthand experience, busy leaking to reporters because they are upset about the result of the last election? Already there's a motivation problem right there.
Apparently, it is Fashion Week, and Julie Tong relates that "Italian favorites from Gucci to Prada filled their collections with opulent color, excess, and maximalist style. While at Versace, powerful words like 'unity,' 'courage,' and 'love' were emblazoned on hats and sleeves and more."
For over four decades the media has created and in turn destroyed politicians . The result has been timidity and a necessary deference paid to members of the Fourth estate.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told "Fox News Sunday" that the election of former Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez as Democratic National Committee chairman shows that the Democrats continue to be out of touch with mainstream America. "What this says to me that they have now put someone in the chair of Democratic Party who doesn't understand what's going on in America.
Tom Godat, a union electrician who has always voted for Democrats, cast his ballot for Donald Trump last year as "the lesser of two evils" compared to Hillary Clinton. There's a lot that Godat likes about President Trump, especially his pledge to make the country great again by ignoring lobbyists, challenging both political parties and increasing the number of good-paying jobs.
"Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk." Those words might have been written last year, as an explanation for Donald Trump's rise or a rejoinder to Hillary Clinton's denunciation of "deplorables."
Warren Buffett says the proposed $143 billion offer to acquire Unilever, a deal with links to his company, fell apart quickly because the European company wasn't interested. Buffett said Monday on CNBC that his Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital abandoned Kraft Heinz Foods' bid for Unilever because they were interested only in a mutually agreed upon tie-up, not a hostile takeover.
Trump welcomed 46 governors and their spouses to the annual Governors' Ball at the White House. This marks the first major social event of Trump administration.
Soon enough, there were alternate cards that read "Hillary Clinton President of the United States" in reference to the results of the 2016 presidential election, and other cards that said " 'Lemonade' BeyoncA " in reference to the Grammy for The Damien Chazelle-directed film had been expected to win Best Picture - and came in with 14 nominations, tied for the most ever, to to the audience directly following the flub, explaining that he was given Best Actress card instead of Best Picture and was confused. "I also was holding my Best Actress in a Leading Role card the whole time.
Presidents from a majority of the country's historically black colleges and universities are in Washington this week, calling for $25 billion in the upcoming budget to help address priorities including infrastructure, college readiness and financial aid as President Trump prepares to sign an executive order aimed at signaling his commitment to the schools. Trump met briefly with the college leaders on Monday, posing for a photograph in the Oval Office before the group met with Vice President Mike Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
President Trump 's job approval rating, 44 percent with a 48 percent disapproval rating in a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll , makes him "the first president of the post-World War II era with a net negative approval rating in his first gauge of public opinion," according to the Journal. Trump's most strident supporters will no doubt call the polls fake, but the fact is, Trump's numbers are low, and they're more evidence - as if any more were needed - that there is no honeymoon for the 45th president.
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During a radio interview broadcast on Sunday, Linda Tripp, who was famously portrayed by John Goodman on Saturday Night Live during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, blasted SNL for what she described as a political campaign to "make me into a villain" instead of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Tripp says she was prompted to go public about the issue in response to the NBC comedy sketch show's negative portrayal of President Donald Trump and top White House officials.
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'That must really bother you.... cc: Barack Obama:' CNN's Jake Tapper launches stinging Twitter jab at Sean Spicer for complaining that journalists got his birthplace wrong CNN's Jake Tapper sharply reminded Sean Spicer of the Birther theory that was pushed by the Trump campaign before November CNN's Jake Tapper piled on his criticism of the White House on Saturday in a stinging Twitter put-down of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Spicer, who he earlier deemed 'un-American' for banning certain publications from an off-camera briefing on Friday, complained on Saturday about a pair of New York Times journalists he said 'didn't bother to ask' him where he was born before mistakenly publishing his birthplace.