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And nobody should doubt he will be thusly crowned, especially given how credibly he asserts that he hasn’t even hit peak yet: Lewis Hamilton clinched a sixth Formula One world championship title at the US Grand Prix on Sunday. He moves to within one of racing great Michael Schumacher’s record seven world titles and officially… Read more.
Mitt Romney is a former Republican presidential nominee. As such he commands considerable respect in political and media circles. This is why many “Never Trumpers” are looking to him to take up the mantle of the late Republican Senator John McCain, namely as President Trump’s most credible and indignant critic in Congress. Arguably, Romney has… Read more.
Since taking four months off after his daughter with Serena Williams was born in 2017, Reddit CEO Alexis Ohanian has become a leader in the fight for paid paternal parental leave, and his social media profiles are the front lines. Now, Ohanian is taking the fight to Congress. In October, he spent an entire week on… Read more.
This World Series began like a treat when the Washington Nationals took a 2-0 lead over the Houston Astros … in Houston … in their best of 7 games. But then it seemed like a trick when the Astros came to Washington and won 3-consecutive games to take a 3-2 lead back to Houston. Even… Read more.
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It has become axiomatic that as goes California, so goes the nation. Sure enough, just weeks ago California made it legal for student-athletes to hire agents to help them profit from their names, images, and likenesses. Now comes this: The NCAA’s top decision-makers voted unanimously Tuesday to start the process of modifying its rule to… Read more.
Sometimes President Trump’s congenital mendacity manifests like a tourettes tic. This explains the way he used to blurt out “no collusion,” as well as the way he now blurts out “no quid pro quo.” But, just as there was collusion between him and the Russians, there was quid pro quo between him and the Ukrainians.… Read more.
President Trump on Sunday announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive Islamic State leader, died during an American military operation in Syria, a major breakthrough more than five years after the militant launched the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. ‘Last night the United States brought the world’s Number One terrorist leader to justice,’ Trump said in a… Read more.
Instead, it’s the governing party’s laundry list of promises, which the prime minister hands her to read from the throne each year to mark the State Opening of Parliament. Except that this year’s list was much ado about Brexit, which amounted to a promise to drive the country right off the White Cliffs of Dover.… Read more.
Trust me, you don’t have to like baseball to marvel at this curious thing: never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to win so little. New York’s season-ending defeat to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series on Saturday means that for the first time since… Read more.
