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Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) speaks during a news conference on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats unveiled new letters to the Attorney General, HHS Secretary, and the White House demanding the production of documents related to Americans health care in the Texas v. United States lawsuit. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Hill battles outlet over nude photo

Igor Derysh

Hill's attorneys cited California's "revenge porn" law as they demanded that the image be removed immediately

Disturbing AMSR (Getty Images/Salon)

Inside the world of spooky ASMR videos

Nicole Karlis

A slow stabbing, a vampire bite, an autopsy – these are all role-play scenarios meant to relax you

US President Donald Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

WH official to back "damning" testimony

Igor Derysh

A key National Security Council official is expected to testify that Trump pushed Ukraine to probe 2020 rival Biden

Ringo Starr's new album "What's My Name"

Ringo's triumphant "What's My Name"

Kenneth Womack

A standout track is John Lennon's "Grow Old With Me," featuring Paul McCartney on bass and backing vocals

Kellyanne Conway and Meghan McCain (Alex Wong/Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

McCain shreds "bully" Conway over threat

Brad Reed - Raw Story

“They’re not calling me, you know,” Mcain says on "The View." “They’re trying to find people to manipulate"

(AP)

McGregor drops new Obi-Wan show details

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

The actor will shoot his upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi television series for Disney+ in summer 2020

Actress Felicity Huffman, escorted by her husband William H. Macy (L), exits the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where she was sentenced by Judge Talwani for her role in the College Admissions scandal on September 13, 2019. - Actress Felicity Huffman gets 14 days jail in US college admissions scandal. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Huffman gets early release from prison

Shira Tarlo

Huffman has been sentenced by a judge to 14 days behind bars at a federal prison in California

Donald Trump, Bill Bar and Vladimir Putin (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Barr strikes back — with Russia cover-up

Amanda Marcotte

Trump couldn't extort Ukraine into backing his vapid conspiracy theories. Now he's got Barr doing the dirty work

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway (AP/Evan Vucci)

Fox News host confronts Kellyanne Conway

Sky Palma - Raw Story

“Did you threaten her? Bully her? Abuse her?” Sandra Smith asked Conway, who is a counselor to the president

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Betsy DeVos held in contempt of court

Shira Tarlo

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim ordered the Department of Education to pay a $100,000 fine

Tulsi Gabbard (Getty/Scott Olson)

Gabbard won't seek re-election in House

Igor Derysh

Gabbard has denied plans for a third party bid, but her recent moves have only added fuel to the speculative fire

William Barr; Robert Mueller; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Criminal inquiry into Russia probe opens

Shira Tarlo

It's unclear what potential crimes are being investigated in the inquiry, overseen by Attorney General William Barr

Kellyanne Conway (AP/Evan Vucci)

"Powerful" Conway threatens a reporter

Brad Reed - Raw Story

“If you’re going to cover my personal life, then we’re welcome to do the same around here,” Conway tells a reporter

U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr has a goal: Right-wing rule

Heather Digby Parton

Barr's "criminal investigation" of the Russia probe is the fruit of a long-running far-right plan to kill democracy

(Getty/Salon)

New China trade deal looks familiar

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

Team Trump blinked and gave the Chinese what they wanted

Vice President Mike Pence (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

A powerful group's plans for Mike Pence

Anne Nelson

The Council for National Policy, a major booster of Pence's career, brought crucial evangelical votes to Trump

Teachers face strict moral demands

Kyle Greenwalt - The Conversation

What it means to be a good teacher has changed over time, along with views on what constitutes appropriate behavior

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listening to President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ex-student loan chief: Cancel the debt

Igor Derysh

Trump's top student loan official resigns — and immediately calls for ditching "fundamentally broken" loan system

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (Getty images/Salon)

Biden's campaign may need Super PAC

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

With far less cash than Sanders, Warren or Buttigieg, Biden's backers want him to break his super-PAC vow

A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How Girl Scouts are saving wild bees

Rachel Ramirez - Grist

The U.S. has more than 4,000 wild bee species, and 40 percent of them are now facing extinction

(AP)

No Bonnen reelection after scandal

Cassandra Pollock

By Tues. morning, more than 30 House Republicans had either called for the speaker's resignation or pulled support

U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump admin violated its ethics pledge

Derek Kravitz - ProPublica

A government report showed inappropriate actions by government employees, lobbyists and former business clients

Rats in a University of Richmond lab have learned to drive in little cars. (Kelly Lambert/University of Richmond)

Lab rats relaxed after driving tiny cars

Nicole Karlis

Surprising results in driver rats vs. passenger rats may have implications for the future of self-driving cars

Homemade hot chocolate with cinnamon in enamel mug (Getty Images)

Cracking the City Bakery chocolate code

Mary Elizabeth Williams

New York institution The City Bakery is closed. I'm keeping it alive in my kitchen, trying to replicate this drink

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