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“Whitney Cummings told a few jokes at the expense of President Donald Trump during last month’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor — but a particularly biting one didn’t make it to the broadcast version,” the Washington Post reports. “The ceremony, which honored Bill Maher, premiered on Netflix on Tuesday. During the event, Cummings joked that […]

Punchbowl News: “Senate Majority Leader John Thune declared earlier this week that he wouldn’t move on the House’s budget blueprint until the Senate solves the Sept. 30 funding fight. That means reconciliation won’t move in the Senate anytime soon — and passing a bipartisan stopgap spending bill could still take weeks or months of additional […]

Thank you, Argentina. With the final numbers on the economic impact still trickling in, it is clear a sudden flood of fans swelled into New York for the World Cup final on July 19, boosting hotel occupancy and the rates hotels were able to charge.  A Hotel Association of New York City analysis suggests that […]

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“A local mayor in central Mexico was shot dead in a town hall, after the politician had survived a previous assassination attempt,” CBS News reports.

One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for their handmade French baguettes, and the confirmation that they were made right here and right now is reassuring. I noticed that the baker was using a mechanical gadget called a loader. It […]

Politico reports that Republicans now think they’re seriously doomed in the midterms. One GOP operative offers this truly astonishing quote about Donald Trump’s effect on the party: “We’re preparing for the bottom to fall out.” Republicans are fretting that Democrat...

“Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh testified before Congress over two days last week, totaling more than five hours. Yet it was comments from several of his colleagues that gave the clearest picture of what the central bank is likely to do at next week’s policy meeting,” Axios reports. “It is a central paradox of Warsh’s […]

Politico: “GOP senators are likely to face a wave of pressure from the White House and House Republicans to move quickly and advance their budget resolution before August recess — the first step necessary to pass another party-line spending bill. But Thune has been frank about the rocky road the effort faces and careful not […]

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“Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, who was replaced as commander in chief of Ukrainian forces late on Tuesday, was a flint-hard, highly decorated military leader and one of the most significant figures of Ukraine’s war against Russia. But his strengths early in the war and his unyielding personality may ultimately have led to his political downfall,” the […]