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Apple is adding its first animated series to its growing television lineup, Variety reported Tuesday.

The Baltimore Orioles announced Monday that this season they will offer tickets to their youngest fans at a price even those without an allowance can afford: $0.00.

Former Marine Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate vying for the open congressional seat in Pennsylvania's 18th District, is very nice looking. Behold:

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is on board with the Trump administration's plan to train and arm teachers and school staff — though she isn't sure of how the specifics should shake out.

Former Reagan administration official Larry Kudlow is a candidate to be President Trump's top economics adviser, CNBC reports. Kudlow, who worked in the Office of Management and Budget under former President Ronald Reagan, would be replacing outgoing National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who announced last week that he would leave the White House.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says President Trump's lawyer paid her $130,000 in 2016 to stay quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, is offering to return the money so that she can speak freely about the president.

President Trump is receiving advice on decorum from a rather unexpected source.

In theory, Congress should be the driving force behind Washington's policy agenda, while the president, assigned to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed," in most matters follows lawmakers' lead. In practice, Congress "kind of [has] attention deficit disorder," as Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said to Politico, and struggles more than ever to set and keep a legislative agenda in the age of President Trump.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly close to completing the portion of his investigation dealing with whether President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice. After several more interviews — most significantly with Trump himself — Mueller is expected to reach a conclusion on the obstruction question.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue oil companies for murder, he said on a Politico podcast episode published Monday.

Ivanka Trump wears many hats these days: senior White House adviser, diplomat, Trump Organization investor, first daughter, and, a Trump confidante tells The Washington Post, President Trump's "little girl." Ivanka Trump resents being paired with her husband, fellow senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, as "Javanka," and while in televised appearances she "seems to present a simulacrum of herself — a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy... Читать дальше...

In a typically bizarre sequence of events late last week, President Trump hastily agreed to direct, one-on-one nuclear talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He would be the first American president ever to meet directly with a North Korean leader.

Black Panther continued to dominate as it reached $1 billion in the global box office in just four weeks, according to estimates released by Box Office Mojo on Sunday. It is the 16th Disney movie to reach the billion-dollar mark, and the first Marvel superhero film to top ticket sales for four weeks in a row.

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Black Panther continued to dominate as it reached $1 billion in the global box office in just four weeks, according to estimates released by Box Office Mojo on Sunday. It is the 16th Disney movie to reach the billion-dollar mark, and the first Marvel superhero film to top ticket sales for four weeks in a row. Black Panther has grossed $562 million domestically, making it the No. 7 highest-grossing movie ever in North America, without adjusting for inflation. It has now surpassed The... Читать дальше...

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The White House on Sunday unveiled President Trump's proposals on school safety and gun control in response to last month's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Trump stopped short of calling for universal background checks on guy buyers, instead urging Congress to tighten existing checks. He also backed away from demanding higher age limits on purchases of high-powered semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Parkland. Trump did offer to help states pay to provide firearm training... Читать дальше...

A US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh, crashed while landing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, with 67 passengers and four crew on board. An airport official said 17 people were rescued from the burning plane, while a Nepali police official told The Associated Press that 38 people were killed and 10 people remained unaccounted for. The twin-propeller Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft swerved several times before crashing near the runway and bursting into flames.

On Sunday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and other advisers to President Trump "argued that his surprise decision to agree to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was less impulsive than it appeared to U.S. allies and members of Congress," The Wall Street Journal reports, and suggested it "had been made in line with a broader strategy of combating the North Korean nuclear threat." On Friday, the Journal reported that Trump "interrupted a trio of South Korean officials" to agree to the meeting:

Conservatives and centrist liberals have dedicated an incomprehensible amount of time and attention to the politics of elite college campuses over the past few years. Whenever some angry lefty kids protest an inflammatory conservative speaker, there is a paroxysm of outrage from people like David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan, Joe Scarborough, Bari Weiss, Jonathan Chait, and many others. Most recently, a few minutes of a handful of Lewis and Clark Law School students heckling Christina Hoff Sommers... Читать дальше...

Last week included International Women's Day, "that one special day a year for half the population of Earth," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "Knock yourself out, three-and-a-half billion people!" There were "truly inspiring" marches around the world, he said, but "what was dispiriting was that yet again, International Women's Day inspired reactions ranging from the clumsy to the appalling."

All the political world's eyes will turn this Tuesday to southwestern Pennsylvania and the special election between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone for a House seat vacated by a scandal-ridden GOP congressman. Since every seat matters and there are only a few contests happening at the moment, an absurd amount of money has poured into the district; as of last Monday, nearly $12 million had been spent on ads that are no doubt driving residents batty. Things have gotten so intense... Читать дальше...

There's an obvious answer to America's gun problem. It should please both aggressive gun control reformers and gun rights loyalists. And it would prevent a lot of deaths.

Pharmacy giants like CVS, Walgreens, or Rite Aid may seem to be everywhere. But don't be fooled: There are actually still quite a few independent community pharmacies in the U.S. — 22,041, to be precise — and they are putting up a good fight, controlling roughly $80 billion of the $200 billion pharmacy market.

For six years, we were known in our friends' phones as "Johnny/Kayla."

At first blush, America got a doozy of a jobs report last week. Employment jumped by 313,000, its biggest single-month gain since mid-2016. But there also was some attendant weirdness: The unemployment rate didn't budge, and, worse, wage growth actually slowed down.

For the last several years, the Democratic Party has attempted to make up for its complete lack of an economic agenda — or at least one that is not synonymous with the flourishing of Wall Street, tech companies, and upper-middle-class professionals — with a series of increasingly desperate performatively woke gestures. The transition in the space of less than half a decade from President Obama's solemn disapproval of same-sex marriage to Nancy Pelosi's insistence that having separate men's and... Читать дальше...