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Monica Lewinsky Gets Uninvited From an Event After Bill Clinton RSVPs
When Town & Country magazine sent out invitations to its 2018 Philanthropy Summit, the guest list included people such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, model Karlie Kloss, Gayle King, actor Bradley Cooper and Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky gladly accepted the invitation and sent in her RSVP. On Wednesday, she tweeted that her invitation had been rescinded because former…
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The Shame Is Not Ours: Black America, Poverty and the War on Drugs [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Remember When the Worst Thing We Had to Worry About Was the President Getting a Blow Job?
In the last two weeks, Americans have gone from wondering whether we were all going to die in World War III against North Korea to wondering if we’re going to die at the hands of roving bands of white nationalist redshirts with Timothy McVeigh dreams and Breitbart logins. Just two days ago, with people still…
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Texas GOP Congressman: Hey, Sorry About Saying Bill Clinton Tried to Kill Loretta Lynch
U.S. Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) is proof that in the age of Donald Trump, Republicans will say anything, and by “anything” I literally mean anything, and only if you are called on it do you have to walk it back. On Tuesday, Olson began his moonwalking after claiming—without evidence—that former President Bill Clinton admitted “to…
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Bill Clinton: Worldwide Nationalism Is ‘Taking Us to the Edge of Our Destruction’
Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that the nationalism movement that has engulfed politics in America as well as other countries around the world is part of a more insidious and interconnected movement to institutionalize separatism and division around the world. Politico reports that Clinton was giving a keynote speech at an event hosted by…
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Bill and Hillary Clinton Will Attend Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Bill and Hillary Clinton will be in attendance at Donald Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, their aides confirmed Tuesday. Former presidents and their spouses are given prominent seats to witness the inauguration, but as the Los Angeles Times notes, never before has a former first lady lost the election, and Hillary Clinton’s attendance at the ceremony…
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Janet Reno, 1st Female US Attorney General, Dead at 78
Janet Reno, who during the Bill Clinton administration became the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was 78. Reno died early Monday morning surrounded by family and friends, her niece Daphne Webb told NBC News. Reno served nearly eight years as attorney general under President…
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The FBI Releases 15-Year-Old Files on Bill Clinton Pardon Less Than Week Before Vote
While the FBI has maintained that it was simply following protocol, I think we can all agree that it has a horrible sense of timing. With less than a week to go before the presidential election, the FBI has once again found itself in the middle of presidential drama after reviving a long-dead email scandal involving Hillary…