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‘Reckoning’ as new Epstein scandal surfaces involving ‘cash-strapped’ female athletes
Harvard University reportedly concealed the true source of a $25,000 donation to its women’s rugby team, allowing athletes to believe the money came from university leadership when it actually originated from convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein. According to an investigation by podcaster Pablo Torre and Harvard Crimson staffers Dhruv Patel, Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A.
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Micah Lasher, Child Magician
I’m meeting with Micah Lasher at a diner on the Upper West Side. The last time I saw him was also at an Upper West Side diner. That was 32 years ago. He was 12. I was 22. He was interviewing me for a job. Lasher is running for Congress in the June 23 Democratic
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Amid backlash over World Cup parking and transportation, LA Metro offers a solution
Ticket prices are just the start of the soaring expenses many fans will face while trying to watch World Cup games this summer. NJ Transit is charging $150 for round-trip tickets from Manhattan to the Meadowlands (the regular price is $12.60) for the World Cup final, while host committee shuttle buses will cost $80. The
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Ex-Trump aide’s defense of Supreme Court race ruling meets furious pushback on CNN
A former Trump administration official downplayed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on voting rights but met pushback from his fellow panelists on CNN. The conservative majority essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act’s requirement that congressional districts be designed to give minority voters an opportunity to elect their own representatives, and former Donald Trump aide Mike
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Biden admin ‘zealously’ probed ‘traditional’ Christians — even keeping tabs on priests: DOJ report
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration “zealously” investigated, penalized, and engaged in “aggressive prosecutions” of Christians “with traditional biblical views” — ignoring their conscientious objections and even secretly keeping tabs on Catholic priests, a Department of Justice task force found. The DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias released 14 findings Thursday, confirming the 46th president’s
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Resurrecting a discredited theory on COVID’s origin, DOJ indicts an ex-Fauci aide over old emails
According to Department of Justice officials including FBI Director Kash Patel, the indictment of David M. Morens for using his personal email account on official business is all about protecting the sanctity of government communications and upholding the federal Freedom of Information Act. “Circumventing records protocols with the intention of avoiding transparency is something that
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Republicans sick of Mike Johnson privately hope they lose majority: ‘It’d be a blessing’
House Republicans are so disgusted with their leadership that some of them are now privately wishing they would lose the majority. According to NOTUS, “The majority of the House Republican Conference, GOP senators, the White House and even members of his own leadership team are fighting with the embattled House speaker and believe Johnson has
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Use Gmail’s ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Tool to Cut Down on Inbox Clutter
The majority of us have learned to live with overflowing inboxes stuffed with hundreds or thousands of unread emails. If that’s not your experience, consider yourself lucky. Over the years, Gmail has introduced a variety of different tools and features for trying to cut down on this clutter. Manual filters, automatic spam detection, email prioritizing,
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Dahlia killer was sadistic, Zodiac sought publicity: Experts cast doubts on link
The woman known as the Black Dahlia had not been dead long before the smears began. Two months after her mutilated, bisected body was found in a South Los Angeles lot on Jan. 15, 1947, a newspaper headline asked: “‘Dahlia’ to Blame?” Looming over the case was the suspicion that Elizabeth Short, who was jobless
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GOP senator opens up new front in war against Trump nominees: ‘Take me at my word’
Fresh off forcing the Trump administration to drop its politically motivated prosecution of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is now deploying his Senate Judiciary Committee leverage to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’spermanent nomination unless the administration abandons any tolerance for Jan. 6 apologism. According to Politico’s Jordain Carney, Tillis holds