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Jon Hamm as Bill Taylor on "Saturday Night Live"

Arts & Entertainment

Watch: "SNL" Gives the Impeachment Hearings the Soap Opera Treatment

Jon Hamm makes a guest appearance as Bill Taylor.

Pope Francis

Pope Francis Denounces Anti-Gay Rhetoric as Reminiscent of Nazi Era

Members of the media watch the first public impeachment hearing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on November 13, in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Impeachment Hearings Are Costing Businesses $2.1 Billion/Hour In Lost Productivity

Anonymous Anti-Trump Book Already Breaking Sales Records

Arts & Entertainment

Anonymous Anti-Trump Book Is Already Breaking Sales Records

Rudy Giuliani on Fox News' Hannity. (YouTube)

Report: Rudy Giuliani Wants to Launch His Own Impeachment Podcast

libraries

Someone Keeps Hiding This Library's Anti-Trump Books

Glasses

Report: Numerous Japanese Employers Told Women To Avoid Wearing Glasses

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen on "Colbert"

Arts & Entertainment

Watch Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen Act Out Trump's Ukraine Call

Ronald Reagan's inauguration in 1981. (CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

Berlin Didn't Want a Reagan Statue, But the US Put One Up Anyway

The New York Times newspaper

Watch: Officials Laugh Off a Library’s Request for a New York Times Subscription, Call it “Fake News”

best contrarian writers 2019

Can Contrarian Writing Survive in 2019?

Saxony, Dresden: The silhouette of the old town is reflected in the morning in foggy weather in the Elbe. (Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

German City Declares "Nazi Emergency"

Sean Doolittle

Sean Doolittle Won’t Attend White House Ceremony For Washington Nationals

Twitter

Twitter to Stop Accepting Political Ads

hong kong protest staples center

The NBA’s Hong Kong Protests Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night

President Donald Trump attends Game Five of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)

Watch: Trump Booed at World Series Game, Fans Chant "Lock Him Up"

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Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley Criticizes Mike Pence Over China Comments

John le Carré Agent in the Field political spy novel

Now 88, John le Carré Just Wrote His Most Political Book to Date

Germany Autobahn

Germany Rejects an Autobahn Speed Limit, But Proponents See It as Inevitable

Zion National Park Camping

A New Effort to Privatize National Park Camping Is So Brazen They’re Even Going After Senior Discounts

Donald Trump speaks during the CNN Debate in Miami on 2016.

Trump Threatens to Sue CNN Over “Biased Reporting Practices”

The Carters

Carters Become Longest-Married Presidential Couple

Via GoFundMe

Lakers Fan Raises Almost $43K to Hand Out Hong Kong Tees at Opener

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard

A New Political Power Player Is Gearing Up for the 2020 Election: Patagonia

The Tongass National Forest in Ketchikan, Alaska

The Government Wants Your Opinion on Its Plan to Log Our Largest National Forest

Megyn Kelly

Megyn Kelly to Return to Fox for Tucker Carlson Interview

20 September 2019, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart: Participants in a demonstration block the entrance to a Deutsche Bank branch. The demonstrators follow the call of the movement Fridays for Future and want to fight for more climate protection. They want to support the calls for strikes and protests all over the world. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How Deutsche Bank Tried to Buy Influence in China

Hunter and Joe Biden (Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)

Hunter Biden Defends Foreign Business Ventures, But Admits Political "Mistake"

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