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Lawmakers Are ‘Coming Out of the Woodwork’ to Be Briefed on UFOs: Report

Mark Warner was one of three senators to hear a briefing on UFOs from the Pentagon on Wednesday, as lawmaker interest in the topic increases.
Trump Judicial Appointee Opposing LGBT Rights Confirmed to Lifetime Federal Seat

Matthew Kacsmaryk, who co-signed a letter saying that being transgender is “a delusion,” will head to Texas to a lifetime district court appointment.
Pelosi Rules Out Censuring Trump as Alternative to Impeachment

It’s apparently all or nothing on impeachment for the House.
What Was Joe Biden Thinking?

Intelligencer staffers discuss the Democratic frontrunner’s odd comments about segregationist senators.
In Private, Tucker Carlson Is Actually Giving Trump Decent Iran Advice: Report

The Fox News host is acting as a counterweight to the administration’s hawkish voices, telling Trump that war with Iran isn’t “in anyone’s interest.”
On-Set Stabbing Briefly Shuts Down Anne Hathaway’s New Movie

A crew member for The Witches was attacked by a knife-wielding man.
Fed Chair Powell Says He’s Not Going Anywhere, But the Fed’s Moving Toward Trump

U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell says he intends to serve his term, but the Fed appears to be ready to cut interest rates.
Founder of NXIVM Sex Cult Found Guilty on All Counts

Keith Raniere faces life in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering.
At NY1, Female News Anchors Say They Have an ‘Expiration Date’

Five women have sued the network, saying they were “edged out” for growing older.
Democrats Think Older White Man Is Best Bet to Beat Trump

Biden and Sanders’s strong position in early 2020 polls is likely related to perceptions that, based on 2016, candidate diversity may be too risky.
Trump May Live-Tweet the Democratic Debates, Against His Advisers’ Wishes

Live-tweeting the other party’s debates would be undignified, unprecedented, and perfectly in character for Trump.
Lindsay Lohan’s Reality Show and Nightclub Are Ending Due to Lack of Drama

Apparently, she wasn’t having enough breakdowns.
New York to Enact One of the Most Aggressive Climate Bills In the U.S.

The bill requires the state to get 70 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and includes stipulations similar to the Green New Deal.
Chait: Kook Art Laffer Wins Medal From Trump For Inventing Fake Curve

A fitting reward for decades of voodoo economic wrongness.
The Billionaire Mercer Family Has Reportedly Bailed on Trump in 2020

The reported loss of the Mercers — vital to Trump’s 2016 run — compounds campaign fears that the GOP’s big-ticket donors won’t show up in 2020.
Former Weinstein Company HR Director Files Suit

He claims he’s owed a payout from Harvey.
Warren, Beto, Biden, and Bernie Get Center Stage Positions At First Debates

O’Rourke, who hasn’t been polling that well, got lucky with his debate placement.
A Women’s Sex-Toy Company Is Suing the NYC Subway for Rejecting Its Ads

Dame Products claims the MTA is perpetuating a “ridiculous double standard” by banning its advertisements.
This Far-Right Activist Will Now Lead a Major U.S. Religious Freedom Body

Tony Perkins has claimed that Islam is not a religion. Now he’s helming the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Buttigieg Has a Police Shooting Problem

Mayor Pete’s struggle to gain minority support isn’t being helped by the shooting of a black South Bend citizen by a white police officer.

12:47 A.M. Anti-LGBT Rights Judge Confirmed to Lifetime Federal Seat Matthew Kacsmaryk, who co-signed a letter saying that being transgender is “a delusion,” will head to Texas to a lifetime district court appointment.
12:33 A.M. Three Senators Received a Classified UFO Briefing: Report Mark Warner was one of three senators to hear a briefing on UFOs from the Pentagon on Wednesday, as lawmaker interest in the topic increases.
7:12 P.M. Pelosi Won’t Censure Trump As Alternative to Impeachment It’s apparently all or nothing on impeachment for the House.
6:26 P.M. What Was Joe Biden Thinking? Intelligencer staffers discuss the Democratic front-runner’s odd comments about segregationist senators.
6:26 P.M. Tucker Carlson Is Advising Trump on Iran in Private: Report The Fox News host is acting as a counterweight to the administration’s hawkish voices, telling Trump that war with Iran isn’t “in anyone’s interest.”
4:50 P.M. The Fed Signals the Interest Rate Cuts Trump Wanted U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell says he intends to serve his term, but the Fed appears to be ready to cut interest rates.
4:20 P.M. The Big Lie Fueling the Right’s Anti-Reparations Argument Republicans at Wednesday’s reparations hearing perpetuated one of the great lies about racist inequality: that white people got ahead without help.
4:01 P.M. Elizabeth Warren, Unity Candidate? Democratic centrists are exhibiting a warmth toward Elizabeth Warren that could help her create a party-spanning coalition.
12:41 P.M. Democrats Think Older White Man Is Best Bet to Beat Trump Biden and Sanders’s strong position in early 2020 polls is likely related to perceptions that, based on 2016, candidate diversity may be too risky.
11:59 A.M. Trump May Live-Tweet the Democratic Debates Live-tweeting the other party’s debates would be undignified, unprecedented, and perfectly in character for Trump.
10:40 A.M. Biden Segregationist Riff Even More Ignorant Than It Sounds Does the Democratic front-runner understand the modern political world?
8:00 A.M. McConnell Thinks Obama’s Election Was Reparations Enough McConnell reflects the belief of many white Republican voters that they, not African-Americans, are the victims of racial discrimination.
7:00 A.M. Trump Awards Kook Art Laffer for Inventing Fake Curve A fitting reward for decades of voodoo-economic wrongness.
2:09 A.M. At Trump’s 2020 Campaign Launch in Orlando, It’s Still 2016 Trump called this rally “45 Fest,” and it was billed as the official start to his reelection. It’s not clear yet what — if anything — this means.
June 19, 2019 New York to Enact One of the Most Aggressive Climate Bills The bill requires the state to get 70 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and includes stipulations similar to the Green New Deal.
June 18, 2019 The Mercer Family Has Reportedly Bailed on Trump in 2020 The reported loss of the Mercers — vital to Trump’s 2016 run — compounds campaign fears that the GOP’s big-ticket donors won’t show up in 2020.
June 18, 2019 Warren, Beto, Biden, Bernie Get Center-Stage Debate Spots O’Rourke, who hasn’t been polling that well, got lucky with his debate placement.
June 18, 2019 Far-Right Activist to Lead Major U.S. Religious Freedom Body Tony Perkins has claimed that Islam is not a religion. Now he’s helming the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
June 18, 2019 Buttigieg Has a Police Shooting Problem Mayor Pete’s struggle to gain minority support isn’t being helped by the shooting of a black South Bend citizen by a white police officer.
June 18, 2019 What Kyle Kashuv Gets Wrong About Harvard and Growth Kashuv says that Harvard is betraying its commitment to growth by rescinding his admission. Maybe Harvard’s own growth requires it.

6:02 P.M. Which 2020 Candidate’s Comfort Food Is the Most Haunting? “A BAKED POTATO.”
5:57 P.M. New Influencer Drama: Model Accused of Pretending to Paint A Romanian Instagram model who loves to pose with her canvases has attracted a conspiracy theory.
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5:10 P.M. Meet Cat-Fox, Your New Ruler A new feline species was discovered in Corsica.
4:13 P.M. Cersei Apparently Had a Miscarriage in a Deleted GoT Scene Lena Headey said it was “a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei” at a recent comic convention.
4:05 P.M. Founder of the NXIVM Sex Cult Found Guilty on All Counts Keith Raniere faces life in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering.
3:00 P.M. How to Peel Garlic A handy guide for the harried home cook.
2:09 P.M. There’s a Reason Men Accused of Abuse Keep Working for Trump Patrick Shanahan would have fit right in at the White House.
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1:08 P.M. At NY1, Anchorwomen Say They Have an ‘Expiration Date’ Five women have sued the network, saying they were “edged out” for growing older.
12:45 P.M. AOC Offers Fellow Democrats a Lesson in How to Be Online The congresswoman has responded to the DNC’s epically bad “Boy Bye” tweet.
12:15 P.M. The Best Dandruff Shampoos for Every Kind of Hair From curls to color-treated.
11:10 A.M. The Greatest Thing to Do Is Make Some Bread Please make this bread!!!
10:14 A.M. Bachelor Star Falls Ill After Trip to Dominican Republic Americans have been falling mysteriously sick while on vacation.
10:03 A.M. James Charles Rises Phoenixlike From Ashes of YouTube Drama His first post–Tati Westbrook feud video is up, and trending at No. 1.
9:54 A.M. The Best Abortion Ever In the rural county where I live, it used to be impossible to get an abortion. The year I was 41, I needed two of them.
8:00 A.M. Lindsay Lohan’s Reality Show Is Ending Due to Lack of Drama Apparently, she wasn’t having enough breakdowns.
6:00 A.M. ‘My Friendships Make Me Sad’ Can you trust your instincts when it comes to friends?
June 18, 2019 Women’s Sex-Toy Company Sues MTA for Rejecting Its Ads Dame Products claims the MTA is perpetuating a “ridiculous double standard” by banning its advertisements.
June 18, 2019 Why Is Ben Affleck in Such a Hurry With His Laptop? A list of possibilities.

12:47 A.M. Seth Green Has An Impressive Buffy the Vampire Slayer Memory It’s just as we’d always hoped.
12:09 A.M. Publisher Sues Pandora for Much Less Than It Sued Spotify But this time it’s just over lyrics.
11:01 P.M. Mixed-ish Has Been Recast With Mark-Paul Gosselaar He’ll be taking over the role of Bow’s dad, Paul.
10:00 P.M. Jane the Virgin Recap: No Cheating at Lotería Jane and Rafael finally have the conversation they needed to have, and Rogelio finally gets the hang of his tail.
10:00 P.M. Southern Charm Recap: Camp Nowhere When the men of Southern Charm set off on an ill-fated camping trip, it’s not long before the hot dogs start flying.
9:42 P.M. Chance the Rapper Tries Being Chance the Open Mic Comedian He even handles a heckler!
6:02 P.M. Susan Kelechi Watson Studied Ballet Again for This Is Us “It was really intense trying to get that ballet back in my body.” video
5:25 P.M. On-Set Stabbing Briefly Shuts Down Anne Hathaway’s New Movie A crew member for The Witches was attacked by a knife-wielding man.
5:17 P.M. Ari Aster’s Midsommar Is an Ambitious, Blurry Horror Trip The Hereditary director seems sure of only one thing: that he wants to make you feel as if your head is being sawed off.
4:41 P.M. Ava DuVernay Reacts to Trump’s Central Park Five Comments “It’s expected. It’s not a big deal to me.”
4:39 P.M. Cersei Apparently Had a Miscarriage in a Deleted GoT Scene Lena Headey said it was “a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei” at a recent comic convention.
4:10 P.M. 15 Fantasy Adaptations We’re Excited to See on TV Soon Swords, potions, magic, oh my.
4:00 P.M. The 30 Best Action Movies on Netflix Right Now Triple Frontier, The Terminator, The Dark Knight, and more.
3:36 P.M. Phoebe Robinson Isn’t Ruling Out More ‘2 Dope Queens’ Also, she loves Lizzo! video
3:28 P.M. Does Beyoncé Know Drake Has a Massive Portrait of Her? And other questions we had while looking at Drake’s Instagram.
3:17 P.M. Netflix Gets Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick … Boom! After a pretty hot bidding war.
3:06 P.M. Pixar Announces Soul, Your Next Animated Existential Crisis Directed by master manipulator Pete Docter.
2:32 P.M. Marsai Martin on Becoming Hollywood’s Youngest Producer “I wanted to do it more because there wasn’t a lot of people who looked like me that was my age that was doing this.” video
2:06 P.M. Rosamund Pike Set to Star in The Wheel of Time Adaptation The Gone Girl actress will be playing Moiraine.
1:30 P.M. Netflix Renews Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave A blessing for comedy nerds everywhere.

11:55 A.M. Inside the Dinner Party That Uses Pasta to Build Friendships At Pasta Social Club, the focus is on carbs and comfort.
11:44 A.M. The Frye Fest Is the Summer Festival America Deserves Who wouldn’t love “an immersive fried potato festival”?
10:24 A.M. Culinary Institute of America Starts Bourdain Scholarship It will support students in their studies abroad.
10:15 A.M. How to Peel Garlic A handy guide for the harried home cook.
June 18, 2019 Where Does Au Cheval Go From Here? What happens when critics take issue with a restaurant’s core concept?
June 18, 2019 The 2019 ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ List Rollout Begins The always-controversial ranking of restaurants arrives.
June 18, 2019 The Oral History of Serious Eats How a cash-strapped start-up became the internet’s food-nerd utopia.
June 17, 2019 The New East Wind Snack Shop Has an Unexpected Specialty Dragon’s beard candy is being made at the dumpling shop’s third location.
June 17, 2019 Everything You Need to Know About LaCroix’s Recent Troubles It’s been a wild nine months for the seltzer brand, which seems to be losing its cult status among consumers.
June 16, 2019 Crown Shy Brings Uncommon Finesse to Fidi Chef James Kent’s precise, seasonal brand of cooking is on display at this deceptively ambitious new restaurant.
June 14, 2019 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
June 14, 2019 Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Grub Street Diet “It makes me feel like a million bucks.”
June 13, 2019 On the Trail of New York’s Nutcracker Kings How a brain-numbing street cocktail became a multimillion-dollar uptown hustle.
June 13, 2019 The Grub Guide to the Summer’s Can’t-Miss Food Festivals A massive food market in the Bronx, a festival dedicated entirely to cider, the latest edition of an Afrocentric jollof competition, and more.
June 12, 2019 A Secret Downtown Star Will Get a New Forum for His Cooking Efrén Hernández quietly took over hot-spot-gone-cold Mimi, and now the team is expanding with Babs.
June 12, 2019 Kraft to America’s Parents: Give Your Kids ‘Salad Frosting’ This country had a good run, folks.
June 12, 2019 The Absolute Best Veggie Burgers in New York From vegan restaurants to newfangled burger stands, here’s where to get the best meat-bomb alternatives.
June 11, 2019 Flynn McGarry Will Close His LES Tasting Room for the Summer The 20-year-old plans to spend ten weeks traveling and cooking here and abroad.
June 11, 2019 Amazon Will Kill Its Restaurant Delivery Service After four years, the tech company is shutting down Amazon Restaurants.
June 11, 2019 Can Restaurants Be Fixed From the Inside? The industry is grappling with ideas to save its workforce.

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June 18, 2019 What La La Anthony Can’t Live Without Including the underwear she owns 100 pairs of.
June 18, 2019 The Best Women’s Walking Shoes, According to Reviewers “The most comfortable shoe I’ve ever worn.”
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June 18, 2019 The 24 Things I Recommend to Anyone Adopting a Cat Toys, treats, trees, and more for spoiling your new kitten.
June 17, 2019 Where Can I Get That Laptop Case From Always Be My Maybe? The green-marble case is actually from Amazon — and costs less than $20.
June 17, 2019 28 Famous People on Their Favorite Lip Balms Including Beyoncé, Troye Sivan, and Natasha Lyonne.
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June 17, 2019 The Best Couches Under $2,000, As Tested by the Strategist Interior designers recommended 80 options; we narrowed it down to seven — and sat on them.
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