She’s a proven liar. She’s caused a PR nightmare. And she wasn’t even good at her job. What was NBC thinking?
Ronna McDaniel appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, March 25, 2024.
(NBC News)
The reviews are in for ousted Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel’s first appearance as a $300,000-a-year political commentator for NBC—and they’re bad.
How bad?
Bad enough that even McDaniel’s new colleagues are delivering blistering on-air
December 8, 2023
Should he somehow, despite four criminal indictments and multiple trials, return to the White House, we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.
(Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX via AP Photo)
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On February 19, 1942, two months after
Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment.
At first there was more to eat, then suddenly less.
—“Aubade Now of Earth” (2022)
I was on my way to visit Jane Hirshfield—but first I had to get to Stinson Beach without driving off a cliff into the pitch-dark Pacific. The fog was thick along the high,
A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and a boy celebrating his fifth birthday were among the more than 1,400 victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel.
While it is now ten days since the terror group stormed into Israel from Gaza, details are still emerging about the horrific rampage and of its many victims.
Gina Semiatich, a 90-year-old Czech-born Holocaust survivor, was tragically murdered in her home at Kibbutz Kissufim, less than two miles from the Gaza border. Eitan
Die Geschichten in der neuen Kollektion von Allegra Hyde, DIE LETZTE KATASTROPHE: Geschichten (272 Seiten, Vintage, Taschenbuch, 17 $), sind wie der Konvoi von Wohnmobilen, mit denen das Buch beginnt: eine schöne Parade von Einbildungen, die alle unterschiedlich und in sich geschlossen sind, aber im Wesentlichen in die gleiche Richtung fahren. Jede Geschichte konfrontiert die Klimakrise durch Charaktere, die versuchen, die Folgen der menschlichen Zerstörung entweder zu akzeptieren oder vor ihnen zu fliehen. Keiner der Wege wird sie natürlich
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Scientists are now predicting the Nord Stream leak of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, will be the worst in history.Danish Defense Ministry/Xinhua via ZUMA Press
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On Monday, Danish officials broadcast a warning to ships navigating its nearby waters: There was a massive leak from Nord Stream 2, the Russian-owned pipeline built to transfer natural gas from the former
Before war ravaged Yemen, Walid Al-Ahdal did not worry about feeding his children. At his hometown near the Red Sea, his family grew corn, raised goats and relied on their own cow for milk.
But for the last four years, after fighting forced them to flee, their home has been a tent at a camp with 9,000 other families outside the capital city of Sana. Mr. Al-Ahdal has struggled to buy adequate food with his wages as a janitor at
It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed up for Appen, an AI data-labeling platform, when she was still in college studying to land a well-paid position in the oil industry.
But then the economy tanked in Venezuela. Inflation skyrocketed, and a stable job, once guaranteed, was no longer an option. Her side gig was now full time; the temporary now the foreseeable future.
Today Fuentes lives in Colombia, … Read more
