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One week after the 2016 election, employees at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., pitched dozens of foreign diplomats on the property and all it had to offer. Not that much of a spiel was required, since the chief advantage was obvious: it belonged to the president. As one …

The race to become the next governor of Florida is among the most heated contests of the upcoming midterms. It may also be the most emblematic of the national political climate in 2018. Democrat Andrew Gillum is an unabashed progressive, supporting universal healthcare, higher corporate taxes and abolishing ICE “in …

Dave Chappelle told CNN’s Van Jones that Kanye West “shouldn’t say all that shit,” referring to the rapper’s praise of President Donald Trump. West recently made news with a rambling Oval Office visit this past week where he spoke at length on topics ranging from a new design for Air …

Hurricane Michael, the third most intense storm on record to make landfall in the U.S., has caused widespread destruction, turning places like Mexico Beach, Florida, into a hellscape of broken homes and overturned cars. It will be a while before we learn the full extent of the damage — and …

A thousand years from now, when some vaguely human-like machine digs through the ashes of the Twenty-Firstcentury and tries to figure out what happened to those once-thriving animals called Homo sapiens, it may be confused about why an intelligent species that could build rockets and write songs like “Imagine” couldn’t …

Update 6:32 PM: President Trump has announced that he likes Taylor Swift‘s music “about 25 percent less now, OK?” (He added that the pop star “doesn’t know anything about” Blackburn.) Original post below. *** Taylor Swift — who started her career in country music three years after the Dixie Chicks …

It wasn’t supposed to happen. Ayanna Pressley trailed Rep. Joe Capuano by 13 percentage points in the last poll before Tuesday’s Democratic primary to represent Massachusetts’s 7th district in Congress. When Capuano, a 10-term incumbent, conceded an hour after the polls closed, he was trailing Pressley by 18 points. Because …

Hours after calling legendary Washington Post reporter and current CNN contributor Carl Bernstein a “degenerate fool,” President Trump roused himself out of bed Thursday to levy another series of unhinged attacks against the media. Beginning just before 7 a.m., the president tweeted a whopping 10 times over the next three …

Hours after his former confidantsMichael Cohen and Paul Manafort were cut down by the strong arm of the law, President Trump took the stage in front of a group of supporters in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump spoke for well over an hour, although he didn’t spend as much time addressing …

On Monday afternoon, Craig Clements was one of the first outsiders allowed in to see what he calls “the vortex zone” at the Carr fire near Redding, California — a city of about 100,000 people, not far from the Oregon border. “It was pretty wild,” Clements, director of the Fire …