China's Favorite Foreign Journalist Is a Plant
There's a reason Australian "reporter" Andrea Yu is China's favorite foreign journalist. It's because they're using her to skew the Communist Party Congress coverage.
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There's a reason Australian "reporter" Andrea Yu is China's favorite foreign journalist. It's because they're using her to skew the Communist Party Congress coverage.
NBC News has a Senate source telling them David Petraeus will be appearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, where a closed hearing on the terror attack in Benghazi is on the schedule.
After a few days of exclusive meetings with top House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi announced that she was staying on a House Minority Leader for the next congressional term. We also (by way of Luke Russert) have learned: that you should never, ever, call Nancy Pelosi old in the middle of her press conference.
Have you seen this man?
Jon Stewart knew you were keeping that Confederate flag close by for a reason.
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At the moment, no one knows where Jesse Jackson Jr. is. Well, some people do (we think) but they're just not talking. And the people who are talking only know one thing: he isn't at The Mayo Clinic where he was receiving treatment.
The Washington Post is, like many papers, in bad business shape. That's a given. But today is one step at looking forward, as they found an editor in The Boston Globe's Martin Baron to replace executive editor Marcus Brauchli.
Esquire's Q&A with Lena Dunham in its December issue is getting plenty of attention. It's not because the Girls creator/writer/director said anything particularly illuminating or scandalous. It's because we found out that Dunham rides around Manhattan in a chauffeured Mercedes.
Janesville, Wisconsin ... that sounds familiar right? It's the hometown of the Republican VP hopeful Paul Ryan who, among other things, really, really doesn't like gay rights. Well, last night Ryan's hometown voted overwhelmingly to give domestic partnership benefits to city employees.
TMZ has an email from Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, to his alleged underaged lover. And it's the type of stuff that makes you feel icky and itchy—which is probably why everyone else would just rather crack jokes.
After seeing how well feelings and hunches worked out in that landslide of the election, Republicans are now putting the Petraeus scandal to the same test. And just like the election, Jon Stewart is here to crush those feelings.
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There's a word for that artistic boondoggle of a performance Rihanna did this past weekend on SNL. It's actually an artistic movement called "seapunk." Seriously.
Bloomberg Businessweek has been getting high marks as of late for being funny, smart, and witty. However, this past weekend all that went missing when it asked where the hottest girls go to business school.
Hold on. Take a breath. And let's just remember that the New York Marathon organizers, the New York Road Runners, didn't actually cause Hurricane Sandy or burn people's houses down. And that the worst thing they did really didn't affect anyone but themselves.
On Twitter this morning, we woke up to the "news" of Grover Norquist using a kindergarten term. But to be clear, the Republican tax puppetmaster was paraphrasing, trying to make a point that immature Democrats were calling his candidate a "poopy head."
Would you donate to the Livestrong Foundation if Lance Armstrong weren't a part of it? That's the hope behind his resignation from the board the cancer charity he helped to found.
It isn't often that you get TMZ and Sesame Street in the same story, but thanks to a scoop from the trashy celebrity gossip site Sesame Street executives are now explaining why the man behind the voice of their most popular puppet might have had a relationship with an underage boy.
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On Wednesday Robert Murray, the Chief Executive of Murray Energy, decided to pray and then fire 54 employees at American Coal and 102 more at Utah American Energy. Now one of Murray's layoff victims has taken to Reddit to explain what it was like to get that news.
There's a new Bond movie hitting theaters today, which means we get to say hello to at least one woman who sports a totally ridiculous double entendre for a name. We've created a quiz putting their names up against the only women with comparably amazing monikers: drag queens.
In October we saw the highest Consumer Sentiment rating in five years. Guess what? We just topped that.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr is reportedly ironing out a plea deal with the feds for using his campaign funds to buy a $40,000 Rolex and fix up his pad. If his reelection on Tuesday is any indication, his supporters might not care.
Paying more in taxes, a safe sex-mandate, rejecting the abolishment of the death penalty—what is going in California?
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Hipsters and hipster-haters, we're really happy for you that New York's L-train is back. And the return of the city's gray line means that the MTA's animated GIF of trains coming back to life is nearly complete.
On Thursday Jared Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences—it's part of a plea deal he agreed to over the summer—for killing six people, wounding 13 others, and attempting to take the life of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Here is what she and her husband told her shooter today during the victims' statements.
Journalists hate corrections: They're embarrassing, they feed trolls, and they tend to make people think you're bad at your job ... unless you're The New York Times's Michael Winerip, who turned The Boss into Bruce Springstein.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! (Go on, Mitt would've wanted you to help the economy.)
It wasn't very difficult to figure out, but New York City's tabloids figured out that yesterday's nor' easter was really just the worst. And one of them figured throwing some breasts at you might make you stop complaining and feel better.
We've all been waiting four years that special night in November—no, not the election. We're talking about The Daily Show's morning (well, evening if you want to be specific) after show: the night when we get to watch Jon Stewart watch Fox News implode: it's here, and it's delicious.
The AP is reporting that Republican Rick Berg has conceded his Senate race to Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota—a huge disappointment for conservatives looking to take back the red state and another brutal reminder that they struck out in the Senate.
This is the most expensive U.S. election in history with a total price tag of around $6 billion spent. That wouldn't be possible if not for the billionaires and the super PACS who gave and gave and gave some more. So which rich donors got the most bang out of their buck? (Hint: it's not Sheldon Adelson.)
The art department at Bloomberg Businessweek got all Photoshop of horrors on us with their cover this week, and decided to turn our dashing 2012 presidential candidates into ugly old guys. All this, and we haven't even had breakfast yet.
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There's a viral video going around of a voting machine in Pennsylvania that seems like its rigged—it switches votes from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney. It's just one machine, but it's also perfectly encapsulates people's Election Day fears.
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Hurricane Sandy threw a monkey wrench into New York and New Jersey's voting logistics by flooding polling sites, cutting power at others, and rendering some unusable. But we are humans and we have plan b's, and these are the ways New Jersey and New York responded:
In one of his last campaign pushes before the election, President Obama got a rousing introduction from Jay Z at a rally in Columbus Ohio Monday, which seems to have upset white conservative men who are feigning being offended at Jay Z's misogynistic and racist lyrics.
The folks over at Northwestern's Knight Lab have a handy tool to occupy you until polls close tomorrow night: an app that predicts who your favorite people on Twitter are voting for.
Hurricane Sandy is being touted as the reason Mitt Romney lost his mojo, the reason people are being nice in New York again, and perhaps most significantly—the galvanizing reason that there's bipartisan cognizance of climate change in an election season that largely ignored it. We beg to disagree on the latter: that might have to go to Donald Trump.
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When you cancel a marathon, like the New York City Marathon on Friday, you're left with a bunch of bottled water, generators, mylar blankets, and lots of energy-giving foods like apples and peanuts. But instead of sending them to the Rockaways or Staten Island, much of those supplies sat unused at the finish line Sunday.
After multiple reports stating that the New York Marathon was being scratched, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has now announced that Sunday's race has been canceled.
We watched in horror when a crane atop the tallest and most expensive residential building in Manhattan buckled over some 70+ stories in the air Monday. On Saturday, the building's developer, Extell, will begin the sky-high task of securing this dangling behemoth.
Plenty of people are unhappy with New York City's decision to give the marathon a green light while New Yorkers are still reeling from the effects of Sandy. That's a logical thought process. But what's also important to remember is this isn't a battle of good versus evil.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised that government tankers are here and ready to help with the area's gas shortage and the mess that it's brought.
Those nifty generators are instead being used for the not-so-dire task of lighting up a media tent 24/7 and that's what has people so angry this morning.
In the last monthly job reports before the election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that unemployment rate remained "essentially unchanged" and rose from 7.8 percent in September to 7.9 percent in October.
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