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Schiff–DOJ Deal for Mueller Documents Slows Down Impeachment Momentum

Nancy Pelosi may have obtained a temporary reprieve from pressure to initiate impeachment proceedings against a stonewalling president.
Trump Refuses to Repair Infrastructure Unless Congress Halts All Investigations

President holds gun to his own approval ratings.
Is Hollywood Really Boycotting Georgia Over the Abortion Ban?

Abortion activists in the state say the protest could do more harm than good.
Democrat Beshear to Take On ‘Least Popular Governor’ in Red Kentucky

Matt Bevin has richly earned his unpopularity, especially among those who value public education. Sheer partisanship is his top asset.
It’s the Rats’ City, We’re Just Living in It

In cities across the country, rat sightings are on the rise.
The Taxpayer Tab for Trump’s Golf Outings Tops $100 Million: Report

The guy who said he wouldn’t play golf as president appears to have lied.
McDonald’s Workers Say Time’s Up on Sexual Harassment

Backed by the Fight for 15, the ACLU, and the legal fund that grew out of #MeToo, fast-food employees are pushing for a safer workplace.
IRS Memo From 2018 Says Agency Must Release Trump Tax Returns: Report

The 10-page memo states that the disclosure of tax returns to the Ways and Means Committee is “mandatory” unless Trump declares executive privilege.
Obama Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland Could Rule on Trump Subpoena Appeal

Garland heads the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Trump hopes to appeal a decision that he can’t block a House subpoena for financial records.
Do Democrats Have the Right Message on Abortion?

Intelligencer staffers discuss the party’s reaction to a raft of stringent new laws.
Ben Carson Confuses a Cookie for a Real-Estate Term the HUD Sec Should Know

In a tense appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, Carson confused “an REO” for “an Oreo.”
Texas Republicans Fighting to Protect Chick-fil-A’s Right to Discriminate

In a mostly symbolic fight between equality and “religious liberty,” Republicans stand up for the Evangelical chicken purveyor.
Uber’s Irrational Pricing Is a Problem for Policy-makers

How do you incentivize a company that seems hell-bent on generating massive losses?
McDonald’s Workers Say Time’s Up on Sexual Harassment

Backed by the Fight for 15, the ACLU, and the legal fund that grew out of #MeToo, fast-food employees are pushing for a safer workplace.
Trump to Tap Anti-Immigrant Crusader Ken Cuccinelli for Homeland Security Post

The former Virginia attorney general is part of Trump pushing DHS in a “tougher direction.”
Alabama’s Extreme Abortion Law Is Dividing Republicans

Suddenly Republicans are exposing their common extremism by arguing over rape exceptions to a total abortion ban.
Apple Finally Says It’ll Fix Its Crappy MacBook Keyboard

In caseeeeee you’reeeeee typing likeeeee this.
AOC and Elizabeth Warren Are Not Happy With the Way Game of Thrones Ended

“It’s like, ugh, this was written by men!”
The NXIVM Trial Keeps Getting More and More Disturbing

High-ranking members of the alleged sex cult have started their testimonies against the group’s founder.
Kris Kobach to Trump: I Can’t Be an Effective Adviser Without 24/7 Jet Access

The GOP’s “populist” anti-immigration guru told the White House he won’t serve his country unless he’s given an on-call plane, other perks.

12:47 P.M. Schiff–DOJ Deal for Mueller Docs Slows Impeachment Momentum Nancy Pelosi may have obtained a temporary reprieve from pressure to initiate impeachment proceedings against a stonewalling president.
12:22 P.M. Trump: Stop Investigating Me, or Infrastructure Deal Dies President holds gun to his own approval ratings.
11:39 A.M. Beshear to Take On ‘Least Popular Governor’ in Red Kentucky Matt Bevin has richly earned his unpopularity, especially among those who value public education. Sheer partisanship is his top asset.
10:52 A.M. Taxpayer Tab for Trump Golf Trips Tops $100 Million: Report The guy who said he wouldn’t play golf as president appears to have lied.
9:44 A.M. The Socialism Panic Is the Right’s Trick to Justify Trump “Socialism: This Time, We’re Actually Not Making It Up.”
7:00 A.M. As Trump Sics Dinos on Hill, Pelosi Calls Impeachment a Trap Pelosi shares her members’ concerns about Trump’s dino clones, but says impeachment would distract from their message on Gym Membership Tax Credits.
1:27 A.M. IRS Memo Says Agency Must Release Trump Tax Returns: Report The 10-page memo states that the disclosure of tax returns to the Ways and Means Committee is “mandatory” unless Trump declares executive privilege.
9:06 P.M. Merrick Garland Could Rule on Trump Subpoena Appeal Garland heads the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Trump intends to appeal a decision regarding a House subpoena of his financial records.
7:18 P.M. Today’s Dark-Horse Candidates Could Be Tomorrow’s Stars There’s a decent chance a little-known Democrat will become a contender when better known. Donald Trump, however, will need strong turnout and luck.
6:23 P.M. Do Democrats Have the Right Message on Abortion? Intelligencer staffers discuss the party’s reaction to a raft of stringent new laws.
5:41 P.M. Watch Ben Carson Confuse a Cookie for a Real-Estate Term In a tense appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, Carson confused “an REO” for “an Oreo.”
4:55 P.M. Texas GOP Fights to Protect Chick-fil-A From Equality In a mostly symbolic fight between equality and “religious liberty,” Republicans stand up for the Evangelical chicken purveyor.
4:41 P.M. Uber’s Irrational Pricing Is a Problem for Policy-makers How do you incentivize a company that seems hell-bent on generating massive losses?
4:31 P.M. McDonald’s Workers Say Time’s Up on Sexual Harassment Backed by the Fight for 15, the ACLU, and the legal fund that grew out of #MeToo, fast-food employees are pushing for a safer workplace.
2:40 P.M. Anti-Immigrant Crusader Ken Cuccinelli Joining Trump DHS The former Virginia attorney general is part of Trump pushing DHS in a “tougher direction.”
2:03 P.M. Alabama’s Extreme Abortion Law Is Dividing Republicans Suddenly Republicans are exposing their common extremism by arguing over rape exceptions to a total abortion ban.
1:59 P.M. Apple Finally Says It’ll Fix Its Crappy MacBook Keyboard In caseeeeee you’reeeeee typing likeeeee this.
May 21, 2019 Kobach to Trump: Give Me 24/7 Jet Access or Give Me No Job The GOP’s “populist” anti-immigration guru told the White House he won’t serve his country unless he’s given an on-call plane, other perks.
May 21, 2019 Change Left at Airport Security Could Fund Border Security A DHS proposal suggests sending $3 million of loose change down to the border.
May 21, 2019 5 More Impeachable Acts Trump Has Committed Just This Week And it’s only Tuesday.

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12:25 P.M. The Bold Type’s Fashion Is Delightfully Bad And it’s the most relatable thing on the show.
12:21 P.M. Adam Driver Is Once Again the Biggest Boy His largeness is on the cover of Vanity Fair.
12:00 P.M. Are Hollywood Celebrities Really Boycotting Georgia? Abortion activists in the state say the protest could do more harm than good.
12:00 P.M. Natalie Portman Says She Never Dated Moby, Who Is a Creep The musician claimed in a recent memoir that he hooked up with Portman in her Harvard dorm room.
11:47 A.M. Prada Is Going Fur-Free Good-bye, colorful fur coats!
11:29 A.M. It’s the Rats’ City, We’re Just Living in It In cities across the country, rat sightings are on the rise.
11:07 A.M. My Life Would Be Perfect If I Had Kristen Stewart’s Jaw Can facial exercises give you a sharper jawline?
10:45 A.M. James Charles Resumes Partying Near Kylie Jenner After the end of the beauty vlogger’s feud with Tati Westbrook.
7:45 A.M. McDonald’s Workers Say Time’s Up on Sexual Harassment Backed by the Fight for 15, the ACLU, and the legal fund that grew out of #MeToo, fast-food employees are pushing for a safer workplace.
6:00 A.M. ‘Should I Invite My Mean Aunt to My Wedding?’ When family members never address what they want or feel, things get ugly quickly.
5:50 P.M. The NXIVM Trial Keeps Getting More and More Disturbing High-ranking members of the alleged sex cult have started their testimonies against the group’s founder.
5:46 P.M. Cher’s New Perfume Will Be ‘Touchy Feely’ What will “all the feels” smell like?
5:33 P.M. Everlane Is Having a Big Sale Right Now If you need to stock up on basics, now is your chance.
5:25 P.M. Pharrell Is Feeling the ‘Design Theta Waves’ The musical artist was honored at the annual Parsons benefit gala.
4:51 P.M. Congrats to Elle Fanning, Best Dressed at Cannes Her Old Hollywood red-carpet outfit is a winner.
4:25 P.M. Who Is Michelle Obama Now? Ask Her Pants A close reading of her recent wardrobe change.
3:59 P.M. What Is Happening in These Pictures of Brad Pitt? A milky, smoky boy.
3:47 P.M. Kate Middleton Is Extremely Pink at the Queen’s Garden Party It’s garden party season.

12:44 P.M. Hilary Mantel to Release Final Thomas Cromwell Novel in 2020 Start queuing up for The Mirror and the Light.
11:59 A.M. Seth Meyers Reveals His Favorite SNL Sketches From This Year And he’s in neither of them.
10:52 A.M. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Is a Nerve-Racking Masterpiece The Okja director’s latest film premiered at Cannes to a rapturous applause that rivaled the standing ovation Tarantino received.
10:42 A.M. Natalie Portman Says She Never Dated Moby, Who Is A Creep He made the claim in his new memoir.
10:32 A.M. Jonathan Van Ness on the End of Game (and Gay) of Thrones Talking with JVN and Erin Gibson about the end of their GOT recap show.
10:30 A.M. Orange Is the New Black’s Final Season to Premiere This July You’ve got (one last) time.
10:30 A.M. We Are All The Person I Am When No One Is Looking Kailee McGee delivers the take on social media that so many others have tried to nail.
10:25 A.M. An Extensive Pop Culture Guide to Charles Manson All the movies, books, TV shows, podcasts and music you should know.
10:23 A.M. Fleabag’s Sian Clifford on Working With Phoebe Waller-Bridge “We’re like sisters to begin with.”
10:03 A.M. J.J. Abrams Recalls Editing Carrie Fisher Into New Star Wars He calls it “spiritual.”
10:00 A.M. Watch The Nightingale Trailer From Babadook’s Jennifer Kent In theaters this August.
9:57 A.M. Colbert Did Something the Late Show Hasn’t Done in 25 Years Colbert is more dominant than ever.
9:33 A.M. Aretha Franklin Hid Her Will Under Couch Cushions, Naturally And two inside a locked cabinet.
9:11 A.M. Catch-22’s Biggest Changes From Page to Screen The creators behind Hulu’s new miniseries make some bold choices in condensing Joseph Heller’s 450-page satirical novel into six installments.
8:45 A.M. How a 7-Foot Serbian Basketball Player Got Cast in John Wick Director Chad Stahelski: “I was like, ‘Ah fuck it.’”
8:00 A.M. Summer Movie Preview: Lion King, The Farewell, and Tarantino Vulture’s guide to cinema this summer.
8:00 A.M. John Wick 3’s Mark Dacascos Geeked Out With Keanu Reeves “It said that I’m a fan, but in my mind I’m a fanboy.”
8:00 A.M. Will James Holzhauer Beat Ken Jennings’s Jeopardy! Record? The Jeopardy! whiz is getting close to toppling Jennings’s $2.5 million record.
1:18 A.M. A Hash Brown Finally Gives Us Some Real Hope for America It’s the next best thing to change.
12:49 A.M. Chrissy Teigen ‘Spoiled’ The Voice by Retweeting It Not.

12:25 P.M. A Philadelphia Italian Ice Mascot Protested Abortion Bans Brand engagement at its most surprising.
11:47 A.M. Remember Icing Bros? Somehow Smirnoff Made It Worse Just make a spritz instead!
8:00 A.M. Black Neighbors Refused to Let Gentrification Close This Bar “As our erasure happens, we’re trying very hard to protect our spaces.”
2:07 P.M. Jamie Oliver’s U.K. Restaurant Empire Collapses It could mean the loss of upwards of 1,000 jobs.
May 21, 2019 Vegetables Become Vehicles for Luxury at Le Jardinier Chef Alain Verzeroli steps out on his own after two decades’ work under the acclaimed Joël Robuchon.
May 21, 2019 Here Are Food & Wine’s Best New Restaurants of 2019 Adda and Frenchette made the cut.
May 21, 2019 Chama Mama Serves Irresistible Georgian Food in Chelsea The new restaurant showcases the distinctive walnut-sauced, tart-fruited, dairy-enriched gastronomy of the former Soviet republic.
May 20, 2019 This Year’s Vendys Will Be the Last “We kind of feel, honestly, that the Vendys have mostly accomplished, if you will, what we set out to do 15 years ago.”
May 20, 2019 Here’s What Went Down at the Café Altro Paradiso Bake Sale Natasha Pickowicz’s annual fundraiser in support of Planned Parenthood of New York raised $17,000 before it even started.
May 20, 2019 Roy Choi and Jon Favreau Are Turning Chef Into a TV Show The Chef Show premieres on Netflix on June 7.
May 19, 2019 Thomas Keller’s TAK Room Has Lots of Retro, Pricey Pleasure His destination restaurant in Hudson Yards is outlandishly expensive and curiously satisfying.
May 17, 2019 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
May 17, 2019 Robert Parker Has Retired From Wine Criticism He’s been an industry tastemaker, if a controversial one, for decades.
May 17, 2019 Podcasting Star Phoebe Judge’s Grub Street Diet “I sat by myself and spent most of the time listening to a father try to get his two teenage daughters to have a good time.”
May 16, 2019 NYC’s Most Splurge-Worthy Restaurants, According to 14 Chefs Sometimes you just need to go big.
May 16, 2019 Everything You Need to Know About the TWA Hotel at JFK The blockbuster mid-century restoration certainly looks the part. Does the food measure up?
May 15, 2019 The New Bar Jungle Bird Was Made for Summertime Drinking The eye-catching Chelsea spot from bartending vet Krissy Harris revolves around the flavors of Southeast Asia.
May 15, 2019 The Absolute Best Tiki Bars in New York A retro fantasy retains relevance in New York’s bar scene.
May 15, 2019 American Express Is Buying Resy It’s a big boost in the platform’s fight against OpenTable.
May 15, 2019 Manhattan’s Newest Trader Joe’s Finally Gets an Address 432 East 14th Street to be exact.

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2:50 P.M. 21 Things on Sale Under $150 at Net-a-Porter Right Now Up to 50 percent off summery duds like tops, swimsuits, and mules.
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May 20, 2019 The Strategist’s Mega Memorial Day Sales Roundup Your one-stop shop for a long weekend of deal-sniffing.
May 20, 2019 The Best Gifts for Dads With Sore Necks and Backs Including a travel-friendly foam roller and an adjustable pillow.
May 20, 2019 20 Things Worth Buying at Dermstore’s Summer Beauty Sale Sunscreens, dry shampoo, lip and cheek tints.
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May 20, 2019 The Best Deals From REI’s Anniversary Sale Early birds get the best deals.
May 20, 2019 The Best Memorial Day Mattresses on Sale (so Far) We scoped out all the best mattress deals.
May 20, 2019 What Strategist Readers Are Buying: Flowers and Massagers Plus digital picture frames, linen sheets, and more.
May 20, 2019 The Best Motorcycle Helmets, According to Experts We spoke to bikers, motorcycle shop owners, and the founder of the New York Classic Riders about the best helmets.
May 20, 2019 What Anwar Hadid Can’t Live Without “Honestly, whenever I stop to get gas or I’m at a corner store, I always get Red Vines.”
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May 17, 2019 The Best Stuff Under $200 From Moda Operandi’s Designer Sale Including goods from VEJA, Isabel Marant, Solid & Striped, and more.

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