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President Donald Trump’s alleged affair with a pornographic actress — and his involvement in the attempts to cover it up — have been making headlines all year. But in an interview with ABC News, Melania Trump dismissed the allegations and…
Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke has raised an astonishing $38.1 million in the past three months in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz — more than triple what Cruz, at $12 million, hauled in. Unfortunately for O’Rourke, the polls…
But each side is also allowed to strike a certain number of jurors without giving a reason — these are called “peremptory challenges.” This is where racial discrimination in jury selection becomes tricky. Lawyers aren’t technically allowed to use these…
This week, Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin, announced that his company is “very close” to a deal to deploy the world’s first hyperloop in India. A hyperloop is a ground transit system that can transport people at speeds…
The photographer Janet Delaney first came to San Francisco in 1967, for the Summer of Love. By the time she began living in the Mission, in the nineteen-eighties, she had learned Spanish and trained herself to recognize moments of quiet…
The very first scene of “What Price Hollywood?”—the movie from 1932 that informs all four versions of “A Star Is Born” (1937, 1954, 1976, and 2018)—shows what’s missing from this year’s edition. Directed by George Cukor, who also made the…
