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Most of the Trump family’s 2017 New York mayoral election votes were not cast after they failed to follow absentee ballot instructions, according to multiple news outlets.

A man who discovered his girlfriend was pregnant decided to stage his own maternity photo shoot – with a bellyful of McDonald’s. Dad-to-be Nick Roberts, a 26-year-old plumber from Boston, Massachusetts, joked that the experience brought him “much closer to the pregnancy.” He put the hilarious photos, taken by his mate Stephen Cwiok, a professional photographer,...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) ordered congressional investigators to physically remove all outstanding documents from the Justice Department on Thursday.  “Intel Cmte chair Nunes says Hse Intel Cmte will send investigators to DoJ Thursday to do a “scrub” of documents they have pursued since winter. Nunes says if McCabe doesn’t appear next Tuesd, he […]

The United States is seeking a $250 million cut to the core budget of the United Nations for 2018-2019, on top of $200 million in savings already proposed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, diplomats said Tuesday.

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• A campaign spokesman for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore appeared on CNN's "The Lead" for an interview with Jake Tapper on Tuesday.
• He seemed to suggest that members of Congress would have had to swear on the Holy Bible and appeared speechless when Tapper corrected him.

As the final hours of Alabama's special election came to a close, Ted Crockett, Republican candidate Roy Moore's campaign spokesman, appeared on CNN's "The Lead" for an interview with Jake Tapper on Tuesday. Читать дальше...

Amazing!

The Pacers’ president of basketball operations, Kevin Pritchard, was mocked on Twitter after he traded his team’s best player, Paul George, for what was considered then to be a mere return of Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis.

Since then, both players are having career seasons, and fans are starting to retract their hot takes from months ago. Especially since the Pacers have a better record than the Thunder.

So Pritchard pulled a perfectly petty move and “liked”... Читать дальше...

The African Export and Import Bank has pledged up to $1.5 billion in new loans and financial guarantees to Zimbabwe in a major boost for new President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, the bank's president and chairman said Tuesday. Mnangagwa, who took over last month after veteran autocrat Robert Mugabe quit following a de facto military coup, has vowed to focus on reviving the struggling economy and provide jobs in a nation with an unemployment rate exceeding 80 percent. Afreximbank was the... Читать дальше...

New York Jets place quarterback Josh McCown on injured reserve, officially ending his season

The abortive bombing by an Islamic State-inspired Bangladeshi in New York has raised fresh fears of a possible surge in attacks during the year-end holiday season on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said on The Five Monday evening that he hopes Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore loses to pro-abortion liberal Doug Jones. Gutfeld called the Alabama special election “team sport politics”. The argument is ‘Moore is bad but the Democrat is worse’. “It doesn’t always have to be a team sport,” […]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — National parks in the U.S. will sharply drop the number of days they allow visitors to get in for free, a move that was criticized by opponents of the parks' plan to raise entrance costs at other times of the year. After waiving fees 16 days in 2016 and 10 days in 2017, the National Park Service announced Tuesday that it will have four no-cost days next year. They will be Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 15), the first day of National Park Week (April 21), National Public Lands Day (Sept. Читать дальше...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief said Tuesday that senior North Korea officials told him during a four-day visit to the country last week "that it was important to prevent war" over the country's rapidly advancing nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Jeffrey Feltman told reporters after briefing the U.N. Security Council privately that "how we do that" was the topic of more than 15 hours of discussions he had with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk, and other officials. Читать дальше...

So here we are. Only a trickle of results in so far. But we’ve seen enough early data to sense we’ve at least got a genuine race on our hands. TPM’s Cam Joseph is in Montgomery. The TPM team is at its workstations. I’m actually on a train. But as long as this train wifi holds out we’re doing this thing.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Lawyers for California and the U.S. Department of Justice clashed in court Tuesday over whether new rules from President Donald Trump's administration would dramatically reduce women's access to free birth control. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ethan Davis urged a federal judge not to grant the state's request to block the policy change to President Barack Obama's health care law, saying it was not clear any women would lose no-cost contraception coverage. The law required... Читать дальше...

The U.N. envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict urged the Security Council on Tuesday to demand an immediate end to the violence against civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has seen more than 626,000 mainly Rohingya Muslim residents flee to neighboring Bangladesh since August.  "I urge this body to do everything in its power to seek a swift end to the atrocities; to ensure the alleged perpetrators of sexual and other violence are brought to justice; and to create conditions for a safe and... Читать дальше...

In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations.   It was the first Democratic Senate victory in a quarter-century in Alabama, one of the reddest of red states, and proved anew that party loyalty is anything but sure in the age of Trump. It was a major embarrassment... Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Andrea Thompson to be the undersecretary of State for arms control and international security. Thompson currently serves as a special adviser in the Office of Policy Planning at the Department of State. Previously, she served at the White House as deputy assistant to the president and national security adviser to the vice president. Thompson also has more than 25 years of military service in the U.S. Army, including deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia. Читать дальше...

Throughout her pregnancy with son Liam, there was a certain breakfast item that Lauren Conrad “ate a lot of” to kickstart her days.

Clint Dempsey's new contract provides salary flexibility for the club that reached MLS Cup.

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Roughly 26 per cent of what gets put out on the curb as recycling turns out to be garbage, costing the city millions.

"When no one reacted or cared they filed a ridiculous complaint,” we’re told of Jackie Beard's attorney.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The winter meetings are not just about wheeling and dealing, where all was quiet with the Giants on Tuesday morning. Awards are presented, too, and the Giants’ scout who recommended Brandon Belt, Bill Mueller, Kyle Crick, Kelby Tomlinson and others is getting a big one. In a banquet Wednesday night, Todd “Tiny” Thomas will be honored as one of three Scouts of the Year after a vote of his contemporaries throughout baseball. One award is given for each of three regions. Читать дальше...