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    Rockettes Held Hostage By Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    The Rockettes as an institution may not be supporting President-elect Donald Trump, but their boss sure is.According to federal election records compiled by Open Secrets, James Dolan, the New York Knicks owner and executive chairman of the Madison...

    While members of the only household name group slated for Donald Trump’s inauguration are reportedly agonizing over the performance, their top boss is a fan of the president-elect.

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    Dems' opposition to Trump vs Reps' opposition to Obama,

    The Party of Mostly No

    The Party of Mostly No

    On Tuesday, Chuck Schumer gave his first speech as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate and then appeared on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. His remarks about how the Democrats plan to oppose President Trump make for quite a contrast with what the...

    Unlike the GOP’s unbending opposition to Obama, Chuck Schumer says his Senate Democrats may be open to important things like infrastructure spending. Voters tend to notice that.

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    Joey No Socks

    Trump Kisses the Feet of ‘Joey No Socks’

    Trump Kisses the Feet of ‘Joey No Socks’

    In Donald Trump’s eyes, Joseph “Joey No Socks” Cinque is not just any scamster.“There’s nobody like him,” Trump said in a video back in 2009. “He’s a special guy.”That assessment was hardly manifest in Cinque’s early days as a street guy, which to...

    A guy who tried to scam his way out of a drunk-driving conviction by claiming lead poisoning from being shot cozies up to the president-elect.

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    Rockettes Held Hostage By Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    The Rockettes as an institution may not be supporting President-elect Donald Trump, but their boss sure is.According to federal election records compiled by Open Secrets, James Dolan, the New York Knicks owner and executive chairman of the Madison...

    While members of the only household name group slated for Donald Trump’s inauguration are reportedly agonizing over the performance, their top boss is a fan of the president-elect.

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    Hannity visits Assange

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    On Tuesday evening, Sean Hannity, a Donald Trump adviser and foot soldier who moonlights as a host on Fox News, further escalated his love affair with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.In the hour-long love-in, pre-taped at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Lo...

    The Fox News host, who once accused the WikiLeaks founder of ‘waging war against the U.S.,’ sat down with him in his London hideout for an uncritical ‘exclusive’ interview.

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     Omarosa is the new Kal Penn, office of public liaison

    Omarosa Is the New Kal Penn

    Omarosa Is the New Kal Penn

    Omarosa Manigault (or simply “Omarosa,” as she prefers, much like Cher or Gallagher) is reportedly headed to the White House, again—this time to serve President Trump.Her executive experience dates back to the ’90s, when she had a brief stint in t...

    The infamous ‘Apprentice’ star is on her way from the boardroom to the White House—in a role expected to be similar to what actor Kal Penn did for Obama.

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    Entertainment

    Stereo Williams: On Kim Burrell, the homophobic pastor

    A Beloved Pastor’s Homophobic Tirade

    A Beloved Pastor’s Homophobic Tirade

    “For those asking, Kim Burrell will not be appearing on my show.”That was a tweet from Ellen DeGeneres following the backlash against the gospel singer in the wake of her recent inflammatory, wildly homophobic comments during a sermon in Texas. Wh...

    A video of the Houston church founder (and Oscar hopeful) ranting against homosexuality went viral. But many in America share the hateful views of Kim Burrell—and that needs to change.

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    Carrie and Debbie’s Love Story

    Carrie and Debbie’s Love Story

    “My question is,” Carrie Fisher begins, roughly midway through the new documentary about her life and relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds. “When you die when you’re fat, are you a fat ghost? Or do they go back to a more flattering time?”...

    HBO’s new documentary about Fisher and Reynolds’s love story doubles as a fitting eulogy for their lives: Told on their own terms, unfiltered, and by themselves.

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    The Great Kanye Fashion Week Mystery

    The Great Kanye Fashion Week Mystery

    2016 ended in grim reality for the world’s most famous reality TV stars, the Kardashian-Wests, who were befelled by a series of surreal events. After Kim retreated from public eye following her robbery-at-gunpoint, Kanye suffered a spectacularly p...

    After a ‘temporary psychosis,’ Kanye West is said to be feeling healthy and working on his Yeezy Season 5 fashion collection—which may mean mean more crazy theater at NYFW.

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    Jason Beghe Scientology

    My Scientology Escape

    My Scientology Escape

    As Chicago P.D.’s Hank Voight, he is a broken man haunted by his felonious past. The tragic loss of his wife to ovarian cancer and the brutal murder of his wayward son have further reduced him to a font of rage; a man armed with a badge, a gun, an...

    ‘Chicago P.D.’ star Jason Beghe opens up about smoking pot with John F. Kennedy Jr., defecting from Scientology, and why ‘this country is a cult.’

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    Carrie and Debbie’s Love Story

    Carrie and Debbie’s Love Story

    “My question is,” Carrie Fisher begins, roughly midway through the new documentary about her life and relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds. “When you die when you’re fat, are you a fat ghost? Or do they go back to a more flattering time?”...

    HBO’s new documentary about Fisher and Reynolds’s love story doubles as a fitting eulogy for their lives: Told on their own terms, unfiltered, and by themselves.

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    Angelina: Brad Is ‘Terrified’ of Truth

    Angelina: Brad Is ‘Terrified’ of Truth

    The vicious divorce battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just gets nastier.Now, Angelina has accused Brad of being “terrified” that “the truth” will come out, and doing everything he can to obscure it, according to TMZ. Jolie has also rehea...

    Hollywood's nastiest divorce battle plumbs new depths, as Angelina Jolie reheats abuse allegations and accuses Brad Pitt of obscuring ‘the truth.’

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    Oprah on Colbert

    Oprah: I Am ‘Never’ Running for Office

    Oprah: I Am ‘Never’ Running for Office

    As the lead guest on the first Late Show of 2017, Oprah Winfrey was ostensibly there to promote her new weight-loss cookbook, Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life. But there was no way Stephen Colbert...

    Oprah Winfrey tells Stephen Colbert the one thing she will miss most about the Obama family.

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    Hannity visits Assange

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    On Tuesday evening, Sean Hannity, a Donald Trump adviser and foot soldier who moonlights as a host on Fox News, further escalated his love affair with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.In the hour-long love-in, pre-taped at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Lo...

    The Fox News host, who once accused the WikiLeaks founder of ‘waging war against the U.S.,’ sat down with him in his London hideout for an uncritical ‘exclusive’ interview.

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    Angelina: Brad Is ‘Terrified’ of Truth

    Angelina: Brad Is ‘Terrified’ of Truth

    The vicious divorce battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just gets nastier.Now, Angelina has accused Brad of being “terrified” that “the truth” will come out, and doing everything he can to obscure it, according to TMZ. Jolie has also rehea...

    Hollywood's nastiest divorce battle plumbs new depths, as Angelina Jolie reheats abuse allegations and accuses Brad Pitt of obscuring ‘the truth.’

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    World News

    Angela Merkel’s ‘Bloodguilt’

    Angela Merkel’s ‘Bloodguilt’

    BERLIN—On the night before Christmas on Berlin’s U8 subway line between the central districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, a group of parka-clad teenagers were loitering in one of the cars looking for trouble, and then they found it.As they they got...

    Every incident of immigrant violence is laid at the German chancellor’s doorstep. But the German people may not be convinced.

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    A catchy pop song in Saudi Arabia that rails against the oppression of women has gone viral on the internet

    A Saudi Music Video’s Sick Trump Burn

    A Saudi Music Video’s Sick Trump Burn

    ROME — A controversial new song and video produced by Saudi Arabian artist-provocateur Majed al-Esa would be hysterically funny if it were only a joke.Instead, the song called “Hwages,” with the chorus “If only God would rid us of men,” focuses on...

    An Arab world provocateur’s latest song goes under the niqab with a warning to U.S. women: Your president-elect isn’t all that different from the kingdom’s own oppressors.

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    People wear face masks as heavy smog blankets Shenfang in Hebei province, on an very polluted day December 20, 2016.

    China’s Smog Vortex

    China’s Smog Vortex

    China’s air–pollution issues have gone from bad to worse as the country, home to more than a billion people, faces what has been described by some as ‘a nuclear winter.’

    China’s air–pollution issues have gone from bad to worse as the country, home to more than a billion people, faces what has been described by some as ‘a nuclear winter.’

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    Picture of a TV set taken while TV Globo News shows the car of Greek ambassador in Brazil, Kyriakos Amiridis in Nova Iguacu, Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro on December 30, 2016. 
The car was found burned by police, under a bridge with an unidentified corpse inside. / AFP / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA / Brazil OUT / BRAZIL OUT        (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

    My Big Fat Greek Murder

    My Big Fat Greek Murder

    Greek diplomat Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, hadn’t even been ambassador to Brazil for a year when he was murdered, stuffed into his rental car, and set on fire by Sergio Moreira, a 29-year-old military police officer who confessed to killing the ambassa...

    The ‘crime of passion’ murder in Brazil of one of Greece’s most respected diplomats has sent shock waves from the Copacabana to the Parthenon.

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    A catchy pop song in Saudi Arabia that rails against the oppression of women has gone viral on the internet

    A Saudi Music Video’s Sick Trump Burn

    A Saudi Music Video’s Sick Trump Burn

    ROME — A controversial new song and video produced by Saudi Arabian artist-provocateur Majed al-Esa would be hysterically funny if it were only a joke.Instead, the song called “Hwages,” with the chorus “If only God would rid us of men,” focuses on...

    An Arab world provocateur’s latest song goes under the niqab with a warning to U.S. women: Your president-elect isn’t all that different from the kingdom’s own oppressors.

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    Russian Hackers Weaponizing 'Fake News' // SEO: Russians Who Hit DNC Are Using Fake News to Hack U.S.

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Fake news is more dangerous than you’d think. Deliberately falsified news reports aren’t just being used as propaganda to sway the gullible. Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee are weaponizing fake...

    Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the DNC are using bogus news to get inside the networks of the unsuspecting.

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    Jackeline, 26, holds her son who is 4-months old and born with microcephaly, in front of their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil, February 11, 2016. Recent laboratory analyses identified Zika virus infections in three people who died in Brazil last year, the health ministry said on Thursday, although authorities could not confirm that Zika alone was responsible for their deaths.

    2016: Year in Photos

    2016: Year in Photos

    From the devastating airstrikes in Aleppo to the chaos of the presidential election, The Daily Beast presents the most compelling images of 2016.

    From the devastating airstrikes in Aleppo to the chaos of the presidential election, The Daily Beast presents the most compelling images of 2016.

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    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) shakes hands with U.S. Senator John McCain during a meeting with Ukrainian servicemen in Shirokino settlement near Mariupol, Ukraine, December 31, 2016. Mikhail Palinchak/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - RTX2X1XS

    McCain & Co. Try to Stare Down Putin

    McCain & Co. Try to Stare Down Putin

    TBILISI, Georgia — On Sunday afternoon in the village of Khurvaleti, a jetlagged but gritty-as-ever John McCain walked up a snow-covered hill to meet an aged Georgian man, Dato Vanishvili, who waited on the other side of a 52.5-kilometer razor-wir...

    John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Amy Klobuchar traveled from the Baltic to the Black Sea confronting Putin—and Trump. But will it matter?

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    Russian Hackers Weaponizing 'Fake News' // SEO: Russians Who Hit DNC Are Using Fake News to Hack U.S.

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Fake news is more dangerous than you’d think. Deliberately falsified news reports aren’t just being used as propaganda to sway the gullible. Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee are weaponizing fake...

    Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the DNC are using bogus news to get inside the networks of the unsuspecting.

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    U.S.

    Husband of Former U.S. Embassy Official in Morocco Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Sexually Abusing Household Staff Member

    Diplomat’s Husband Sexually Abused Staff

    Diplomat’s Husband Sexually Abused Staff

    For nearly three years, the husband of a U.S. diplomat in Morocco was sexually assaulting his household cook.It took an anonymous letter to stop him.Labib Chammas is the husband of Judith Chammas, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Rabat, Mo...

    While his wife was representing America, he was forcing himself on a Moroccan woman trying to support her family. Now he’s headed to prison.

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    What the Pastor’s Widow Heard

    What the Pastor’s Widow Heard

    CHARLESTON, South Carolina—Quivering with fear beneath a desk, Jennifer Pinckney and her 6-year-old daughter held each other tight and placed their hands over each other’s mouths.Silence was essential. A killer was stalking the church basement jus...

    Jennifer Pinckney told a jury Wednesday how she and her 6-year-old daugher hid as Dylann Roof killed nine people, including her husband—while telling his victims he wasn’t crazy.

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    Rockettes Held Hostage By Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    Rockettes Owner Was a Trump Donor

    The Rockettes as an institution may not be supporting President-elect Donald Trump, but their boss sure is.According to federal election records compiled by Open Secrets, James Dolan, the New York Knicks owner and executive chairman of the Madison...

    While members of the only household name group slated for Donald Trump’s inauguration are reportedly agonizing over the performance, their top boss is a fan of the president-elect.

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    Husband of Former U.S. Embassy Official in Morocco Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Sexually Abusing Household Staff Member

    Diplomat’s Husband Sexually Abused Staff

    Diplomat’s Husband Sexually Abused Staff

    For nearly three years, the husband of a U.S. diplomat in Morocco was sexually assaulting his household cook.It took an anonymous letter to stop him.Labib Chammas is the husband of Judith Chammas, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Rabat, Mo...

    While his wife was representing America, he was forcing himself on a Moroccan woman trying to support her family. Now he’s headed to prison.

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    Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, U.S. June 18, 2015.

    Roof: No Tears for ‘Innocent’ Victims

    Roof: No Tears for ‘Innocent’ Victims

    CHARLESTON, South Carolina– Dylann Roof, who shot nine black worshipers to death during a Bible study, told a jury on Wednesday that he’s not crazy.Acting as his own attorney, the convicted killer told a jury considering whether or not to sentence...

    The convicted killer told a jury deciding whether he should get the death penalty that he’s not crazy—and he didn’t apologize for what he did.

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    Is Sugar the New Smoking?

    Is Sugar the New Smoking?

    When I was in graduate school, I was looking for a scenic, quiet place to live. My university was on Long Island, 50 miles east of New York City, and I decided to explore communities that were farther out on the eastern tip. It wasn’t the fashiona...

    Thirty years ago, we were blind to the dangers of secondhand smoke. Now it’s our addiction to sugar and processed food that will shock future generations.

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    Tech

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing 'Fake News' // SEO: Russians Who Hit DNC Are Using Fake News to Hack U.S.

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

    Fake news is more dangerous than you’d think. Deliberately falsified news reports aren’t just being used as propaganda to sway the gullible. Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee are weaponizing fake...

    Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the DNC are using bogus news to get inside the networks of the unsuspecting.

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    Female DNC Hacker

    Did She Help Hack the DNC?

    Did She Help Hack the DNC?

    The U.S. sanctioned a couple of well-known crooks and handful of Russian government intelligence officers Thursday in retaliation for the Russian government’s interference in America’s elections and diplomacy.Barely noticed on the sanctions list w...

    Alisa Shevchenko is a ‘self-taught,’ relatively unknown player in Russia’s hacker scene. Why did the Obama administration target her, of all people, for sanctions?

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    Polar bear on a wide surface of ice in the russian arctic close to Franz Josef Land.

    Science Can’t Save Us This Time

    Science Can’t Save Us This Time

    In the movie The Martian, Matt Damon proves he can “science the shit” out of his situation to survive on a toxic planet. We, unfortunately, will not be so lucky.I’ve written some 30 novels, where invariably our planet is threatened, but by and lar...

    Politicians seem to hope we’ll be able to ‘science the s**t’ out of global warming’s consequences at some point in the distant future—but the point of no return is fast approaching.

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    Men inspect the damage after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria September 25, 2016.

    Putin TV: Aleppo Slaughter Is Fake News

    Putin TV: Aleppo Slaughter Is Fake News

    It’s been less than a week since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for helping “liberate Aleppo.” But that isn’t stopping Russian propagandists—and their allies on the American fringe—from denying that civil...

    All of those horrific images coming out of war-torn Aleppo? Totally bogus, say Kremlin mouthpieces and American conspiracy-mongers, who are now calling aid fundraisers ‘professional ...

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    Female DNC Hacker

    Did She Help Hack the DNC?

    Did She Help Hack the DNC?

    The U.S. sanctioned a couple of well-known crooks and handful of Russian government intelligence officers Thursday in retaliation for the Russian government’s interference in America’s elections and diplomacy.Barely noticed on the sanctions list w...

    Alisa Shevchenko is a ‘self-taught,’ relatively unknown player in Russia’s hacker scene. Why did the Obama administration target her, of all people, for sanctions?

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    Dark Matter

    The Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

    The Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

    By Anthony Williams, Professor of Physics, University of AdelaideDark matter is believed to be five times more prevalent in the universe than ordinary matter.But it interacts so weakly with other matter—like the protons and electrons that make up ...

    Although dark matter is believed to exist in large quantities, the best way to find and measure dark matter continues to elude scientists.

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    Your Cellphone Isn’t Frying Your Junk

    Your Cellphone Isn’t Frying Your Junk

    A minor craze in men’s underwear fashions these days seems to be briefs that shield the genitals from cellphone radiation. The sales claim is that these products protect the testicles from the harmful effects of the radio waves emitted by cellphon...

    It turns out you really don’t need special undies to shield your genitals from cellphone radiation.

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    Facebook News

    Did Facebook Just Start a Real Infowar?

    Did Facebook Just Start a Real Infowar?

    Facebook detailed a new plan Thursday to target the rapid spread of fake news across its site, a phenomenon that received renewed attention in the weeks following the 2016 election, with accusations that it may have influenced the behavior of vote...

    To combat the spread of fake information, Facebook is stifling intentional fake-news writers while sparking a fight with people who view such a move as censorship.

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    Dark Matter

    The Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

    The Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

    By Anthony Williams, Professor of Physics, University of AdelaideDark matter is believed to be five times more prevalent in the universe than ordinary matter.But it interacts so weakly with other matter—like the protons and electrons that make up ...

    Although dark matter is believed to exist in large quantities, the best way to find and measure dark matter continues to elude scientists.

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    Arts + Culture

    What happened to the Queen

    When Will We Next See The Queen?

    When Will We Next See The Queen?

    The clearest sign yet of the concern that the queen’s recent health scare has caused her fans came courtesy of the Australian Monarchist League, which issued a circular to its members this week, urging them to brace themselves for the death of the...

    The Australian Monarchist League urged its members to brace for the death of the Queen. The palace says she is fine, and beginning to return to her duties.

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    Megyn Kelly

    Megyn Kelly Faces the Perils of Daytime

    Megyn Kelly Faces the Perils of Daytime

    Brave is the anchor that ventures into daytime television. It feels safe, it looks safe from the outside: that mix of light celebrity chitter-chatter and self-promotion, cooking, family matters, political polemicizing (if you’re on The View), rela...

    One of Megyn Kelly’s biggest challenges will be to craft a daytime show. The failures of Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, and Anderson Cooper show how hard it is to get right a format ...

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    Whoopi O'Reilly

    Whoopi Goes to War with Bill O’Reilly

    Whoopi Goes to War with Bill O’Reilly

    Donald Trump is having some trouble getting famous musicians to perform at his inauguration and Bill O’Reilly thinks he knows why. On Tuesday night, the Fox News host declared that a “reverse McCarthyism going on in the entertainment industry” is ...

    O’Reilly thinks there’s a “reverse McCarthyism” happening with Trump’s inauguration and Whoopi is not having it.

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    Hannity visits Assange

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    Hannity & Assange’s Embassy Love-In

    On Tuesday evening, Sean Hannity, a Donald Trump adviser and foot soldier who moonlights as a host on Fox News, further escalated his love affair with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.In the hour-long love-in, pre-taped at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Lo...

    The Fox News host, who once accused the WikiLeaks founder of ‘waging war against the U.S.,’ sat down with him in his London hideout for an uncritical ‘exclusive’ interview.

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    Megyn Kelly

    Megyn Kelly Faces the Perils of Daytime

    Megyn Kelly Faces the Perils of Daytime

    Brave is the anchor that ventures into daytime television. It feels safe, it looks safe from the outside: that mix of light celebrity chitter-chatter and self-promotion, cooking, family matters, political polemicizing (if you’re on The View), rela...

    One of Megyn Kelly’s biggest challenges will be to craft a daytime show. The failures of Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, and Anderson Cooper show how hard it is to get right a format ...

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    Rates at The Williamsburg Hotel start at $375/night.

    Inside Brooklyn’s Luxury Hotel Boom

    Inside Brooklyn’s Luxury Hotel Boom

    Last Friday night, an hour and a half after arriving at the Westlight restaurant on the roof of the new William Vale hotel in Brooklyn’s hip Williamsburg neighborhood, I checked in with the hostess: Another 15 minutes, she chirped, promising that ...

    In Williamsburg, a range of luxury, beautifully designed hotels is opening, jostling for the attentions of fashionable travelers.

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    Jersey Boys

    I’m the Person Who’ll Miss ‘Jersey Boys’

    I’m the Person Who’ll Miss ‘Jersey Boys’

    I’ve never had any real desire to see the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, based on the story of the band the Four Seasons. I assumed the musical would simply regurgitate their best hits peppering in sparse dialogue and the occasional jazz hands. Per...

    The popular Broadway musical will close in a fortnight. A longtime doubter finally decides to go, and is surprised to find it so delightful.

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    Megyn Kelly goes to NBC

    Megyn Kelly Liberated From Fox News

    Megyn Kelly Liberated From Fox News

    Months after helping take down Fox News’s sexual-harassing founder and chairman, Megyn Kelly is bolting the network.The primetime cable star announced on Tuesday that she is leaving Fox for a broad role with NBC News. With her departure, so goes F...

    After a year of feuding with Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Roger Ailes, Fox’s primetime star is moving to NBC, finally liberated from right-wing media purgatory.

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    Rates at The Williamsburg Hotel start at $375/night.

    Inside Brooklyn’s Luxury Hotel Boom

    Inside Brooklyn’s Luxury Hotel Boom

    Last Friday night, an hour and a half after arriving at the Westlight restaurant on the roof of the new William Vale hotel in Brooklyn’s hip Williamsburg neighborhood, I checked in with the hostess: Another 15 minutes, she chirped, promising that ...

    In Williamsburg, a range of luxury, beautifully designed hotels is opening, jostling for the attentions of fashionable travelers.

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