Opposition could stop Mike Pompeo Secretary of State nomination
Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine came out against the current CIA Director's nomination to be the country's top diplomat.
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“We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once”
Whitetails flicker like light in the winter woods, where my dog and I crack open the early morning, the ground a frozen patchwork of leaves, the brittle ice of dirt. So much of walking is description.
“Not a Mile”
This is rural Ohio, and the new drugs from Columbus are cut with elephant tranquillizers. The police are nurses now.
Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 23, 2018
The raid on the offices of President Trump's personal lawyer makes clear that Trump's battle with the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is entering its final chapter.
Company owned by Carolyn Maloney once discriminated against kids
A company that Rep. Carolyn Maloney and her siblings owned was once found to have discriminated against children over age 5 at its Virginia Beach property, according to court records. Maloney and her siblings jointly owned the land through Sea Bay Development Corp. Her sister Virginia Bosher and brother-in-law Phil Upton owned Holiday Trav-L-Park, a company that leased the Sea Bay property to run a campground and rent space to RVs and trailers.
Back-Seat-Driving a Maybach
Josh Max is a name that turns up in your e-mail in-box, sometimes with a video attached. The video might be a business proposition, in the form of him performing, on a portable keyboard, a few verses he's written to the tune of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are."
Mark O’Donnell’s Last Opening
When her phone rang that day, Leah Nanako Winkler was broke. She'd come to New York on a bus, a decade earlier, with forty-five hundred dollars that she'd earned by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic, and now she was thinking about taking a part-time job as a dog groomer because she couldn't afford to both pay her rent and do the only work she wanted to do: write plays.
David Hockney’s “The Road”
Hockney, who celebrated his eightieth birthday last year with a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, remains a restless stylist. He spent several years drawing on an iPad-a phase that yielded a handful of New Yorker covers-and his more recent work plays with photography, collage, and hexagonal canvases.
Sarah Jessica Parker Helps Dolce & Gabbana Bring Luxe to the Library
For the past six years, the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have staged biannual presentations of their haute-couture, or Alta Moda, collections. The extravagant events, in which the designers show custom-made, one-of-a-kind pieces for both women and men, have until now taken place largely in Italian resort towns.
Yiyun Li on Public and Private Narratives
"Sometimes I feel wary of the pressure that artists should be creating work that engages with 'this time of ours,' " Li says. week's story, " A Flawless Silence ," takes place just after the 2016 Presidential election.
A Voyage Along Trump’s Wall
The Rio Grande runs along Big Bend National Park, separating Mexico, on the right, from the United States, on the left. A border wall would be devastating to life on both sides of an already threatened river.
How One Joke Explains the “Roseanne” Reboot
In the third episode of "Roseanne," on ABC, Roseanne Conner and her husband, Dan, wake up on their iconic sofa, in Lanford, Illinois. "It's eleven o'clock," Roseanne says.
Dick Cheney finally gets his wish
"I don't know Mr. Libby," President Donald Trump said when announcing the pardon of former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. "But for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly.
McCain undergoes surgery for intestinal infection
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who has has been undergoing treatment for a brain cancer diagnosis in his home state since late last year, is hospitalized in stable condition after undergoing surgery for an intestinal infection, his office said Monday. In a statement, his office said, "On Sunday, Senator McCain was admitted to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and underwent surgery to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis."
Senate VA panel chairman: Ronny Jackson hearing set for April 25
Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, whose path to become the next Veterans Affairs secretary remains unclear, will go before the Veterans Affairs' committee April 25, according to committee chairman Sen. Johnny Isakson.
his Cunning Plan: Key detail we missed from this moment
WHEN Donald Trump was sworn in as President, the main debate was around how many people attended. But key details were missed.
Comey: a oePossiblea that Russians have leverage over Trump
Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks it's possible the Russians have compromising information on President Donald Trump and that there is "some evidence of obstruction of justice" in the president's actions. That included Trump's request to end an FBI investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Raul Castro leaves Cuba with new freedoms, deep problems
In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn't own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private businesses or enter resort hotels. Castro set about re-engineering the system he had helped create and Cuba opened dramatically over his decade in office.
GOP attorneys general support citizenship question on census
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra , accompanied by Gov. Jerry Brown March 7 discusses remarks made by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in Sacramento, Calif. Becerra, a Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit immediately after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a citizenship question would be added to the 2020 census.
GOP Senate candidates embrace Trump while bashing each other
The three Indiana Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate spent much of Sunday night's debate positioning themselves as the biggest supporters of President Donald Trump.