November 2018 Archives
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Headlines, the Edition
Friday headlines: Good with witches
Cohen’s guilty plea yesterday makes him number 33—and arguably the most significant person Mueller has charged. Worth noting? Mueller’s “witch hunt” is starting...
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Headlines Edition
Thursday Headlines: Buzz love.
In an unexpected hearing, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen pled guilty this morning to lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings in Moscow. Due to suicide and drug overdoses,...
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: It’s the candle, stupid.
From airlines to beer to high-speed Internet access, competition is quickly dying in American capitalism. Joe Kennedy III sounds a lot like his grandfather Bobby in a speech responding to...
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday Headlines: America’s tortured brow.
What had happened to so many of these working dads and moms, that they could see a girl freezing in a concrete room and laugh? How could these regular Americans...
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday Headlines: Always invite Alice B. Toklas to Thanksgiving.
Jim Baker, once the top FBI lawyer, draws parallels between the Watergate road map and Trump's attempts to control the Russia investigation. A former White House counsel says Trump'...
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Headlines edition
Tuesday headlines: Time to use the ‘p’ word
Thanksgiving week started with four fatal shootings across the United States, killing 10 people in a matter of hours. A late Monday ruling requires the White House to allow migrants to...
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Headlines Edition
Saturday Headlines: Is Amazon bigger than New York?
In California, the Camp Fire has now killed at least 71 people and left more than 1,000 missing—and many residents say all the signs were there that something like this...
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Headlines edition y'all
Friday headlines: You’re (not) on a boat
US prosecutors inadvertently reveal in a recently unsealed court filing that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged. A new food truck in Washington, sponsored by MoveOn, is serving free...
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Headlines Edition
Thursday Headlines: When “nobody” wins.
Saudi Arabia claims an intelligence officer, not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ordered Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and has charged 11 individuals. What the bipartisan prison reform bill, which Trump says...
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Headlines edition
Wedneday headlines: We wrote little notes on her body
A close reading of court filings and some snooping suggest that Mueller may have already subpoenaed the President. The only thing that motivates Donald Trump is more Donald Trump. The...
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday Headlines: Excelsior!
As the death toll reaches 42 people, the Camp Fire in Northern California is now the deadliest fire in state history. Before and after photos from a block in Malibu that...
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The Rooster
The 2019 Tournament of Books Long List
Here are our favorite, Rooster-approved novels from 2018. In the coming weeks, we’ll cull this list down to our final set of competitors for the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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Headlines Edition
Saturday Headlines: Astral weekend.
A late season wildfire swept through and destroyed Paradise, Calif., while 30,000 people fled for their lives. In 2016, California voted to outlaw high-capacity magazines, such as the one used in Thousand...
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Headlines Edition
Friday Headlines: Enjoy today’s cultured protein.
Some inside the Thousand Oaks, Calif., country bar attacked by a shooter were also at last year's Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. With the midterms over, the media...
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Headlines edition
Thursday headlines: Another white male
Jeff Sessions, ousted as Attorney General, is expected to be only the first Trump Cabinet member to go in a post-midterm shuffle. Hundreds of protests are planned across the US ...
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday Headlines: Blue, blue, electric blue.
In yesterday's midterm elections in the US, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, flipping many Republican-held districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Among other victories, Democrats will...
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday headlines: The turnout is never too damn high
It’s election day in the United States. A quick guide to your voting rights in case you’re turned away at the polls. “Accountability” and ...
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Headlines Edition
Saturday Headlines: More like a brain dump.
On Thursday, Trump directed troops deployed to the US-Mexico border to shoot if someone throws rocks at them, which former military officers confirmed is "an unlawful order." Here’s...
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Headlines Edition
Friday headlines: I survived Cultlandia.
The US will allow eight countries, including several Asian partners, to keep buying oil from Iran after it reimposes sanctions. John Bolton, the national security adviser, says he looks forward...
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Thursday Headlines: “Get over it.”
Google employees around the world are staging a walkout today, protesting the company's handling of executives accused of sexual misconduct. See photos from the walkouts. The White House claims...