Weeks after The New York Times Magazine helped Anthony Weiner launch his comeback campaign, its ink-and-paper sibling has fired a big shot into the side of it. And it's not the same bombshell everyone is waiting for.
What does the Times have on Weiner that they aren't ready to tell the rest of the world yet? Probably the first extensive interviews with the women he sexted since Weiner's soft landing back on the political scene — a mid-campaign bombshell if there ever was one — but one accidental push of a button on the Times website has everyone waiting for the true return of the scandal.
There's a rule, known as Betteridge's law of headlines, which states that any headline written as a question can be answered, "no." It holds true in this case. Or it probably will, if past polling is any indicator.
Weiner's new official campaign website switched up its main logo to a budget version of the New York City skyline late Thursday afternoon, because the background art temporarily adorning AnthonyWeiner.com... was a budget version of the Pittsburgh skyline.
Now that he's running for mayor and advancing his plan of pre-emptive damage control, has Weiner already takend the scandal out of the next scandal, when more naughty Twitter photos from his last days in Congress inevitably surface?
In the least surprising move of this political season, former Congressman Anthony Weiner officially threw his hat into the ring to be the Mayor of New York.
Anthony Weiner will announce he's running for New York City mayor sometime this week, but he won't get the Clintons' official support or endorsement, Politico's Maggie Haberman reports.
Huma Abedin remained Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff when she came back from maternity leave in June 2012, even though she worked part-time from her home in New York and was allowed to start a side gig as a consultant.
Mark Sanford did it. Anthony Weiner is trying it. Jonah Lehrer botched it. And now, it looks like disgraced politician John Edwards could be gunning for his own public redemption moment.
Anthony Weiner was spotted on Thursday filming pretty much exactly the kind of ad you'd expect him to air if he runs for mayor of New York: sitting on the stoop of his childhood home in Brooklyn with his loving wife at his side.
For the third time, it's official: Anthony Weiner is running for Mayor of New York. It will be official for the fourth time, if the rumors are true, when he "officially" announces it next week. Here's what comes next.
Here's one early way to tell how serious Hillary Clinton is about running for president in 2016: She's treading lightly with her and her husband's public support of Anthony Weiner in his run for mayor ahead of this September's primary. And if you believe Page Six, Hillary and Bill won't be supporting Weiner at all.
The combination of Sanford's sex scandal and his opponent's relationship to a funny person wan't enough to overcome the fact that South Carolina's first congressional district is very Republican. The lesson, maybe even for Anthony Weiner: Don't have a sex scandal in a swing district. Just look at the math.
Not only is Weiner bragging about cashing in, he's bragging about how easy it was to cash in.
The Anthony Weiner Image Rehab-Apology Tour is picking up more steam, but when asked Wednesday if his sexting scandal was truly over and done with, Weiner didn't exactly shut the door on the idea.
Anthony Weiner is trailing fledgling rockstar Christine Quinn — and only Christine Quinn — in a new poll, the first in the heated New York City mayor's race to include him, and the first evidence that his media blitz is slowly bringing him back from selfie shame.
In addition to admitting his run for mayor, Weiner admits he got caught up in the thrill of social media, which allows regular citizens to interact with politicians in a way that's never been possible before. It feels very democratic. But sometimes it also feels like you've seen a kind of desperation that you shouldn't have seen.
Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner and his very supportive wife Huma Abedin get a splashy cover profile in this weekend's The New York Times Magazine that basically uses 8,300 words to say one brief thing: He's going to run for office again.
The former congressman and current reigning king of political sex scandals on Twitter isn't just filing papers and spending a lot of money on his run for New York mayor — he's still bitter and apparently planning the demise of Nancy Pelosi, a scenario that he somehow thinks will only happen when a Clinton is president again.
Anthony "Disgraced Congressmember" Weiner has filed initial paperwork with the City of New York suggesting that he has already spent about $115,000 toward a bid for Mayor.
More New York City voters would rather see Eliot Spitzer, driven from the governor's mansion over a prostitution scandal, and, Anthony Weiner, driven from Congress by sending gross pictures on Twitter, enter next year's crowded mayoral race, than see Alec Baldwin, hilarious star of 30 Rock and Words With Friends plane outbursts jump into politics.
The New York Post has been generally keeping us up to date on how to feel about Anthony Weiner. Today's exclusive, on the family's $3.3 million Park Avenue apartment, leads to a few more questions than answers, though.
Huma Abedin's week got a bit scarier on Sunday when federal officials ordered extra security to her house after a New Jersey man threatened her.
A recent feature in People magazine with Anthony Weiner, his wife Huma Abedin, and their baby Jordan had a lot of people wondering if this meant that Weiner was spurring up public goodwill for a comeback. Maybe it wasn't about him at all.
The New York Post follows Anthony Weiner's pro-family People photo shoot and interview with a front page today warning of "Operation Comeback!" Should we be so warned?
Just what the "Will he or won't he?" story about the political comeback of Anthony Weiner needs: a warm and fuzzy interview with People, complete with cute baby, and n non-denial denial about planning a 2013 run for New York City mayor.
In day two of the still theoretical political rehabilitation of Anthony Weiner, his wife, Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, has taken a leading role, pushing for, according to the New York Post's sources for her husband to give a Bill Clinton-like tell-all interview.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The disgraced former Congressman is "seriously considering" a run to be New York City's mayor in 2013, and he already has $4.5 million from past campaigns to get him started, says pun filled reports from the New York Post.
It was nearly a year ago that Anthony Weiner resigned from his Congressional seat after being busted in a sexting scandal. But The New York Post is not done with him yet.
Cynthia Nixon ties the knot, Anthony Weiner is looking for his next act, and Will Ferrell busts up his leg playing soccer.
Charlize Theron is a busy lady, Jason Segel and Michelle Williams have that new couple glow, and Chris Christie explains what he was really doing when he fell asleep at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
Well, that was fast. Last week the New York Times reported that 41-year-old Republican Marc Cenedella, who founded the job-search Web site TheLadders.com and happened to be angling for Kirsten Gillibrand's New York Senate seat, had a blog with some tasteless posts in his name. Now he's not running.
Late on Wednesday, former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin became parents, welcoming into the world what the New York Post called a "wee Democrat" but they're just calling Jordan Zane Weiner.
Before his adventures in self-portraiture ended his Congressional term, Anthony Weiner frequently denounced Goldline for their marketing claims. If he can still laugh, the last one's his.
The world has moved on, but Traci Noble says there's still more dirt to tell
The Daily Show host weighs in on New York's special election
Bob Turner defeated Democrat David Weprin in Tuesday's special election
In a largely Orthodox Jewish district, Democratic stance on Israel is key
Republicans release ugly "Ground Zero Mosque" fliers
Plus: Former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso says he's 'seriously' considering running for mayor of New York City
Last-minute cash flows into the race as the GOP candidate rises in poll
Also: Matthew Fox has legal troubles on the horizon
Plus: The Wahlberg brothers burger shop will be called Wahlburgers
Plus: James Franco blames Yale for costing him his girlfriend
Plus: Before Ted Danson signed on to "CSI" CBS sent offers to three other actors
Plus: Prince William and Kate Middleton mingle with the common folks in the sky
The New York Post calls it "a dazzling display of arrogance"
Two local Chinese officials and Belgium's prime minister are feeling the heat
Plus: Spike Lee will direct the pilot for HBO new Mike Tyson-inspired drama
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