New Yorker Festival Pulls Steve Bannon as Headliner Following High-Profile Dropouts  —  Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, will no longer appear as a headliner at this year's New Yorker Festival, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, announced in an email to the magazine's staff on Monday evening.

Trump's Top TV Advisers Keep Telling Him: Fire the ‘Shill’ Jeff Sessions Now  —  The drumbeat has become deafening and, unfortunately for the beleaguered attorney general, it's Trump's favorite pundits making all the noise.  —  President Donald Trump has a proven track record …

It's Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back  —  I've devoted much of my professional life to the study of political campaigns, not as a historian or an academic but as a reporter and an analyst.  I thought I'd seen it all, from the bizarre upset that handed …

Stakes are high for Kavanaugh, Supreme Court, as confirmation hearings begin  —  The stakes could hardly be higher as confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh kick off Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  —  Because he would replace Justice Anthony Kennedy - a crucial swing vote …

Democrats, Eyeing a Majority, Prepare an Investigative Onslaught  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats, increasingly optimistic they will win back control in November, are mining a mountain of stymied oversight requests in preparation for an onslaught of hearings, subpoenas and investigations …

Colin Kaepernick part of Nike's 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ campaign  —  Colin Kaepernick is back — at least as far as Madison Avenue is concerned.  —  The former NFL quarterback, who is suing NFL owners for colluding to keep him out of the league, is one of the faces of a new Nike campaign meant …

Networks crop Farrakhan from Clinton/Jackson/Sharpton image at Aretha's funeral  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  It was an image that caused quite a stir Friday afternoon.  There on the stage presiding over Aretha Franklin's epic funeral extravaganza was former President Bill Clinton alongside …

Dozens of elephants killed near Botswana wildlife sanctuary  —  Carcases of nearly 90 elephants have been found near a famous wildlife sanctuary in Botswana, conservationists say.  —  Elephants Without Borders, which is conducting an aerial survey, said the scale of poaching deaths is the largest seen in Africa.

Statement from Stephen J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief, Reuters, on reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Sep 3, 2018  —  Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief, Stephen J. Adler, issued the following statement today after a Myanmar court delivered its verdict in the case against Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo;

Biden hits the trail like he's running  —  The former vice president spends Labor Day courting midterm voters in Pittsburgh, but also doing his own gut check for a possible 2020 run.  —  PITTSBURGH — Cue the jokes: Joe Biden is running.  In fact, he spent much of Labor Day sprinting …

Commission slammed over Selmayr promotion  —  The European Commission “stretched and possibly even overstretched the limits of the law” by fast-tracking Martin Selmayr's appointment as secretary-general, the European Ombudsman reported Tuesday.  —  In a scathing report detailing the findings …

They Found Beto O'Rourke's First Album, And It's ... Actually Pretty Good  —  The Texas candidate continues to impress, despite counterefforts by Sen. Ted Cruz and the GOP.  —  Last week the Texas GOP tried to embarrass U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke by posting a decades-old photo of him in a band.

Tropical Storm Gordon Moving Into Gulf of Mexico as it Soaks South Florida; Hurricane Watch and Tropical Storm Warnings Posted  —  By the weather.com digital meteorologists23 hours agoweather.com  — Tropical Storm Gordon is now moving into the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump's pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard  —  GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.  —  So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan to roll back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.

Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam  —  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated …

FEMA Spending Millions on Contracts with FEMA Chief's Old Clients  —  In TYT Investigates by TYT Investigates, September 3, 20180 Comments … At least two former clients of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William “Brock” Long have received FEMA contracts totaling …