It might have been one of the bumpiest primary-campaign finishes in New York state history, but 27-year-old Julia Salazar pulled it off, upsetting 16-year incumbent Martin Dilan to clinch the nomination for the state senate’s 18th District, representing a large swath of northern Brooklyn. Salazar, a community organizer and Democratic …
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Editor’s Note: The New York Times has amended a clarification to their earlier story, stating that their “article and headline created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question.” They added: “While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on …
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Two years ago, there was a fierce online debate over the cast of a future movie about the 2016 Republican presidential race, which would probably be called Clown Car! (although Every Which Way But Left and A Kochwork Orange were also strong suggestions). Twitter users attacked difficult questions like, “Could …
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Update 8/23/18:The supposed cyberattack targeting the DNC was a false alarm, according to the committee. The phony login page — initially thought to be a sophisticated phishing attempt to gain access to the party’s voter database — was in fact a test organized by the Michigan Democratic Party and run …
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Michael Cohen has been under federal investigation for most of 2018. On Tuesday, he agreed to plead guilty to eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. The deal prosecutors reached with President Trump’s former personal attorney includes jail time and a fine. According to the New …
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On Friday, Rolling Stone published court documents that revealed the NRA claims it’s being shut out of the financial system in a way that could render it “unable to exist.” The reaction in the days since has been split. Some have taken the legal filing at face value. New York …
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Maria Butina is 29 years old, and a very millennial sort of alleged Russian agent. Butina, who is currently jailed without bail, has found herself at the center of the latest twist in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia investigation. Far from maintaining cloak-and-dagger secrecy as she infiltrated the NRA …
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday announced the Department of Justice is indicting 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking into the Democratic National Committee, theDemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The indictment is a result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the …
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Last Thursday, The Atlantic ran a story that was pretty darn embarrassing for the national Democratic leadership – or should have been. Five black women who’d won House primaries around the country told assistant editor Elaine Godfrey the party had completely blown them off: no support, no contact, not even …
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Less than six months into his five-year sentence on federal explosives charges, neo-Nazi Brandon Russell, founder of Atomwaffen Division, has issued a statement. In a new video released this week, Russell, a former National Guardsman, and the subject of a lengthy investigation in Rolling Stone, thanked his comrades for their …
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