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15+ min ago (300+ words) Jeffrey Epstein in February 2015 (U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice/Wikimedia Commons) Before he was accused of sex trafficking of minors, disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein interacted with a long list of prominent figures " from now-President Donald Trump to former President Bill Clinton to economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. That isn't to say that all the politicians, bankers and economists who knew Epstein were actually involved in his crimes in any way. Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and now a scathing critic of the president, told MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) that when he was working for the Trump Organization, he "never heard Jeffrey Epstein on the phone or even call into the office." But as pressure for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to release its Epstein files rages on, questions remain on who knew what and…...

16+ min ago (100+ words) A news host on Sunday was shocked to see Donald Trump's polling dropping significantly when it comes to the "only number" the president actually cares about. On MS NOW over the weekend, host Jonathan Capehart was stunned to see Trump drop substantially when it comes to his support among Republicans, as opposed to his overall approval numbers. Capehart added, "He still has overwhelming support, but that kind of erosion we have never seen." Another analyst jumped into say, "And it's going to keep happening." ALSO READ: The reason for these Trump failures would be funny " if it weren't so alarming...

17+ min ago (1905+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. Our friendship wasn't purely philosophical. What Yasmina loved most of all, when we were thirteen and fourteen, was watching TV at my house. My parents didn't restrict my TV access (they didn't really know all that you could see on cable), and they let us watch "Sex and the City" after supper. How fascinated we were by the brazen onscreen romances. We made sly jokes to each other as if we knew what was what, but we were often surprised by the plots. The four pretty main characters were never devastated by their troubles. They pined but bounced back, bold minxes that they were, which was probably good for us to see. Yasmina and I did nothing without consulting each other. We discussed books we liked (was "Dracula…...

17+ min ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

17+ min ago (570+ words) The war on drugs has failed, and Trump's deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy. I was never that into cocaine " preferring the euphoria promised by MDMA or the relaxation offered by cannabis " but back in 2015, a cocaine-serving lounge bar, Route 36, in La Paz, Bolivia, was the talk of the backpacking circuit, and the scarcely-believable novelty of the place was alluring. In the international waters around the U.S., the "legally indefensible" and "barbarian" campaign the Trump administration is waging against boats suspected of trafficking drugs from Latin America has killed at least 83 people in 21 extrajudicial airstrikes. Pope Leo XIII was such a fan of one cocaine-infused tonic wine as a mental fortifier, "when prayer was insufficient," that he awarded its creator a Vatican gold medal. President Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Edison, and Queen Victoria were also partial....

17+ min ago (849+ words) The poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Harvard professor revisits one of the seminal works by Bishop, inspired by early memories in Nova Scotia. Not a prolific poet, Bishop wrote, or considered finished, about a hundred scrupulously revised poems; many of her finest appeared in this magazine. She spent most of her adult life as an expatriate, in Brazil, and once described herself as "the loneliest person who ever lived." But she drew close to her editors at The New Yorker, especially Katharine White and Howard Moss. They were abiding, trusted sources of encouragement'something the often tormented poet urgently needed. Unimaginable what might have gone unwritten absent a regular home for her poems, a destination'a word that meant the world to this homeless soul. Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911, but after her father's death, that same year, she was taken…...

22+ min ago (228+ words) While we adore sweater weather, we don't adore the freezing cold. A winter wonderland is as romantic as it gets, but chapped lips can quickly kill the mood. When the weather starts getting a little colder, our lips start to shrivel (heck, even when it's not cold!) It gets annoying, and sometimes even painful to deal with. To fight off the chapped lips, we found this $8 must-have on Amazon that shoppers can't get enough of! Per the brand, you apply this lip scrub on wet lips and scrub it in a circular motion 2-3 days a week. Another shopper added that it "saved" their "smoker's lips," adding, "I used the product 2 times a day along with lip exfoliating brush and virgin coconut oil and have already seen the dramatic difference in lightening of my lips. The product helped remove the dead…...

37+ min ago (288+ words) Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) offered a unique pitch as to why President Donald Trump couldn't be "racist," arguing that because of his friendship with the president " and being a "Cherokee Indian" himself " there was no way Trump could be racially prejudiced. Mullin's comments were made during an appearance Sunday on CNN with Dana Bash, and were in response to attacks from his Senate colleague, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who criticized Trump for not wanting "brown people coming" into the country. "Mark Kelly just got done saying that the president was racist because he doesn't like brown people, yet I sit in front of you as a Cherokee Indian and I'm very close friends with the president," Mullin said. "It's ridiculous what Mark Kelly is saying, he's losing credibility every single day!" Mullin is, in fact, an enrolled member of the…...

45+ min ago (131+ words) Russian Spy Network Exploits Ukrainian Teenagers in Europe Russian intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian children and teens online, luring them with gamified "tasks" and small financial rewards. Posted by lamplighter at 10:31 AM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 07:38 PM | Reply One would think similar offers must also available to us Americans. Torch an ICE vehicle, get $500 from Russia. That would get Trump fired up. #2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-27 09:10 PM | Reply That would not surprise me. #3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 09:50 PM | Reply #4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 11:35 PM | Reply...

48+ min ago (173+ words) While Tyra Banks has been known to experiment with her looks over the years, her most recent transformation makes her borderline unrecognizable! While this definitely won't be the last time Banks tries something bold with her hair, we always love to see what persona she transforms into next! In a previous interview with People, Banks talked about how she both embraces her gray hair and still rocks the wigs whenever she can. "I have on fake hair right now and my fake hair doesn't have gray hair in it, but my real hair does," she said. "Because today we celebrate women and we still have a long way to go, but we are getting there to where we feel good and not ashamed of the changes and the natural beauty that our body goes through." She added, I'm poppin'. I…...