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Trump Says He Is an ‘Extremely Stable Genius,’ Asks Staff to Describe How ‘Calm’ He Is

Needless to say, the president’s speech on increased farm aid did not stay on target.
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Questions

Assange claims he is a journalist, but the Justice Department appears to be treating him as if he were a whistleblower like Edward Snowden.
Elizabeth Warren Did Job and Received Hourly Rate for It, Shocking Report Finds

News broke that she made $675 an hour for legal advice, prompting many to say: So what?
Pete Buttigieg: Privileged Trump ‘Faked’ a Disability to Avoid Vietnam

“I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.”
YouTuber Running for Congress Attempts Sex Math

“Joey Salads” says he has had sex “not Thousands [of times], but deff over 1000.” Does the math check out?
Hayden Panettiere’s Boyfriend Charged With Felony Domestic Violence

Brian Hickerson was arrested earlier this month after allegedly getting violent with Panettiere.
McDonald’s Workers Are Striking, and 2020 Candidates Are Paying Attention

Several candidates are joining picket lines, and Fight for $15 is launching a push to make unionization a 2020 presidential issue.
Esquire’s Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden Steps Down

He held the role for three years.
Chait: Republicans Keep Lying About Pete Buttigieg and Thomas Jefferson

Mayor Pete gives thoughtful nuanced response on Founding Fathers, Republicans decide to invent smear instead.
Afraid of Trump Uproar, Steve Mnuchin Kicks Harriet Tubman $20 to 2028: Report

Mnuchin blamed the wait on a security issue, but the New York Times reports that he may have delayed the Tubman bill to avoid a Trump tantrum.
John Bolton Is Trying to Run a One-Man State Department: Report

Both Mike Pompeo and President Trump are reportedly frustrated with the National Security Adviser overstepping his bounds.
House Democratic Campaign Committee Cancels Fundraiser for Anti-Abortion Dem

Progressive and pro-choice groups refused to back off support for Lipinski primary opponent Marie Newman, and the DCCC threw in the towel.
Judge Approves Subpoena of Trump’s Records With Deutsche Bank, Capital One

The Trump family argued that House Democrats had no legitimate purpose for seeking the president’s financial records. A federal judge disagreed.
Michael Avenatti Indicted for Identity Theft, Defrauding Stormy Daniels

Already facing almost 40 charges from a March indictment, the lawyer was hit with a few more for good measure by a Manhattan grand jury on Wednesday.
Why California Killed Its ‘Upzoning’ Bill. Again.

NIMBYs get another win over efforts to preempt local zoning rules restricting housing supply.
Military Brass Warn Trump Against Memorial Day Pardons for War Criminals

Current and former military leaders think it’s a terrible way to celebrate Memorial Day.
Vogue Grifter Gets Probation for Stealing $50,000 From Creative Director

Yvonne Bannigan pleaded guilty to stealing from Grace Coddington.
Trump Refuses to Repair Infrastructure Unless Congress Halts All Investigations

President holds gun to his own approval ratings.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s New Policies Aim to Make Raising a Family Easier

The New York senator hopes to distinguish herself in the 2020 race with a Family Bill of Rights that addresses issues like child care and paid leave.
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.

9:26 P.M. President Trump: ‘I’m an Extremely Stable Genius’ Needless to say, the president’s speech on increased farm aid did not stay on target.
6:47 P.M. WikiLeaks Founder Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act Assange claims he is a journalist, but the Justice Department appears to be treating him as if he were a whistle-blower like Edward Snowden.
6:25 P.M. What Do Trump’s Reelection Chances Look Like Right Now? Intelligencer staffers discuss the president’s position as the Democratic primary continues to take shape.
5:55 P.M. An Infamous Pickup Artist Forum Has Banned Pickup Artistry RooshV has taken the God pill.
3:22 P.M. Abolish the Draft Sports drafts aren’t fair to players, and they don’t even work on their own terms. We should just get rid of them.
1:57 P.M. Slowly and Persistently, Elizabeth Warren Is On the Rise If the 2020 hopeful can avoid getting sideswiped by a fast-moving dark horse candidate, she’s in decent shape to challenge Sanders and Biden.
1:52 P.M. Buttigieg: Trump ‘Faked’ a Disability to Avoid Vietnam “I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.”
12:39 P.M. The Oculus Quest Is the Nintendo Switch of VR The Quest does pretty much everything a higher-end model does, without the hassle of wires and setup.
11:39 A.M. McDonald’s Workers Strike, Drawing 2020 Dems’ Attention Several candidates are joining picket lines, and Fight for $15 is launching a push to make unionization a 2020 presidential issue.
11:28 A.M. Esquire’s Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden Steps Down He held the role for three years.
10:58 A.M. Tillerson Is ‘Dumb,’ Says the Guy Who Made Him Sec. of State The former secretary reportedly told Congress this week that Putin outmaneuvered Trump in their first meeting.
9:00 A.M. How Disney Hall Transformed a Downtown L.A. Neighborhood “The 90-year-old architect may yet get to walk around the effervescent urban core he envisioned with art and music at its center.”
8:59 A.M. Republicans Keep Lying About Buttigieg and Thomas Jefferson Mayor Pete gives thoughtful nuanced response on Founding Fathers, Republicans decide to invent smear instead.
May 23, 2019 Afraid of Trump Uproar, Mnuchin Delays Tubman $20: Report Mnuchin blamed the wait on a security issue, but the New York Times reports that he may have delayed the Tubman bill to avoid a Trump tantrum.
May 22, 2019 John Bolton Wants to Run a One-Man State Department: Report Both Mike Pompeo and President Trump are reportedly frustrated with the national security adviser overstepping his bounds.
May 22, 2019 House Democratic Campaign Arm Cancels Lipinski Fundraiser Progressive and pro-choice groups refused to back off support for Lipinski primary opponent Marie Newman, and the DCCC threw in the towel.
May 22, 2019 Judge Okays Subpoena of Trump’s Records With Deutsche Bank The Trump family argued that House Democrats had no legitimate purpose for seeking the president’s financial records. A federal judge disagreed.
May 22, 2019 Michael Avenatti Charged With Defrauding Stormy Daniels Already facing almost 40 charges from a March indictment, the lawyer was hit with a few more for good measure by a Manhattan grand jury on Wednesday.
May 22, 2019 Why California Killed Its ‘Upzoning’ Bill. Again. NIMBYs get another win over efforts to preempt local zoning rules restricting housing supply.
May 22, 2019 Siri, Are Feminine AI Voices Sexist? The leading tech companies all offer feminized assistants that perpetuate gender stereotypes.

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6:11 P.M. What to Make of Rihanna’s First Fenty Collection Will wearing it make you feel like Rihanna?
5:57 P.M. YouTuber Running for Congress Attempts Sex Math “Joey Salads” says he has had sex “not Thousands [of times], but deff over 1000.” Does the math check out?
5:31 P.M. H&M Is Collaborating With Giambattista Valli And Kendall Jenner was one of the first to cop.
5:28 P.M. An Exploration of Black Identity at Hudson Yards Artists and high-school students performed in the neighborhood’s new arts center, The Shed.
5:15 P.M. Hayden Panettiere’s Boyfriend Charged With Domestic Violence A judge issued a protective order in the wake of an alleged domestic assault.
4:58 P.M. A Guide to Marianne Williamson, Guru and 2020 Candidate She has officially qualified for the first Democratic debate.
4:52 P.M. Breaking: Nobody Knows What’s Going to Happen in 2020 We’ve never had candidates like this before, and anyone who tells you they know what’s happening just doesn’t.
4:10 P.M. The Best Memorial Day Weekend Sales All your favorite summer trends are on steep discount.
3:19 P.M. Burberry’s New Monogram Collection Is Out For fans of logomania.
3:06 P.M. J-Lo’s Instagram Boyfriend Has a New Job He’s in front of the camera now.
2:57 P.M. I Wish I Were a Fancy Men’s Magazine Editor Jay Fielden, who stepped down as Esquire editor-in-chief today, has an Instagram that appreciates the finer things in life.
2:40 P.M. The Cannes Red Carpet Is Having a Very Good Year The festival is known for an extravagant red carpet and so far has not disappointed. gallery
2:17 P.M. Shocking: Elizabeth Warren Did Job, Received Hourly Rate News broke that she made $675 an hour for legal advice, prompting many to say: So what?
12:03 P.M. 10 Minutes With Japan’s Most Famous Woman Kiko Mizuhara is an actress, a model, and Dior’s first Asian ambassador.
12:02 P.M. Oyster Shells, But Make Them Fashion & Other Stories’s new jewelry collection takes a different approach to sustainability.
11:32 A.M. Bill de Blasio’s Presidential Run Is a Beautiful Disaster On the pure pleasure of watching an entirely doomed campaign.
11:00 A.M. 10 Highlights From New York Design Week Wendy Goodman says the standouts were those objects that evoked a sense of déjà vu. Here are her favorites.
10:57 A.M. Celebrities Agree: Moby Is a Creep He faced renewed backlash after posting “proof” he dated Natalie Portman when she was 18 and he was in his mid-30s.
9:52 A.M. Does Everyone Running for President Love the Band Spoon? A political investigation.

3:01 A.M. Leslie Jones Reflects on GoT Finale in Last Game of Jones Luckily there’s still plenty of Chernobyl to riff on.
12:49 A.M. Zach Galifianakis Between Two Ferns Film to Sprout This Fall In even better news, it’s a road trip movie.
11:20 P.M. Harvey Weinstein Reportedly Reaches $44 Million Settlement The tentative agreement would resolve lawsuits from Weinstein accusers, as well as the New York State attorney general.
10:23 P.M. Netflix Orders New Latinx Sitcom Co-Created by Mario Lopez The family comedy follows a 15-year-old robotics prodigy who moves in with her carefree uncle.
8:47 P.M. Anna Kendrick’s Love Life Headed to WarnerMedia Streaming Paul Feig will direct the ten-episode first season of the upcoming rom-com anthology series.
7:46 P.M. Brightburn Is Gory, Creepy, and Obvious But Elizabeth Banks is, as usual, very good and un-gimmicky.
5:06 P.M. Gentleman Jack Gets Season 2, More Historical Lesbian Drama Get your black coat.
4:34 P.M. Rolling Stones Finally Give Richard Ashcroft Writing Credit He has his “Bittersweet Symphony” back.
3:22 P.M. 12 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer Colson Whitehead, Jia Tolentino, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, and more.
3:17 P.M. Magic Mike Musical Grinds to a Halt, Cancels Boston Run Most of the show’s creative team recently left the project.
2:18 P.M. This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Let’s Start Adulting Your handy guide to the best comedy podcast episodes of the week.
1:49 P.M. All 151 SNL Cast Members As Pokémon The timing was right.
1:45 P.M. Patrick Stewart Has Sad Eyes in the Star Trek: Picard Teaser What happened to the Admiral?
1:27 P.M. Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer: Linda Hamilton Is Here, Bitch Linda Hamilton returns with a missile launcher.
1:10 P.M. Jennifer Garner Has Some Very Earnest Grad Advice for You “Nothing looks better in your 50s than sunscreen in your 20s!”
12:38 P.M. What We Talk About When We Talk About Evil Superman What Brightburn and its comic-book ilk tell us about ourselves.
12:33 P.M. Vida’s Latinx POV Is More Distinctive, and Vital, Than Ever What makes the Starz series groundbreaking TV is also what makes it very good TV.
12:00 P.M. Every Will Smith Movie, Ranked Sorting out the movie star’s highs, lows, and Aladdins.
11:06 A.M. Fleabag Breaks the Fourth Wall and Then Breaks Our Hearts The end of Fleabag season two is a perfect, crushing conclusion.
10:32 A.M. The Lonely Island Surprise Is a Bash Brothers Rap Special Featuring Sterling K. Brown in a Sia wig.

12:30 P.M. Francis Lam on Storytelling, Trend Fatigue and Avocado Toast “I’m tired of hearing people shit on other people.”
10:50 A.M. The Altro Paradiso Bake Sale Raised $96,000 Natasha Pickowicz’s annual fundraiser in support of Planned Parenthood of New York raised $17,000 before it even started.
9:46 A.M. Mario Batali Faces Criminal Charges in Boston He will be arraigned in court tomorrow.
8:00 A.M. Where to Eat and Drink on Memorial Day in New York City Because everyone knows the best weekends in the city are when everyone else is gone.
May 22, 2019 A Philadelphia Italian Ice Mascot Protested Abortion Bans Brand engagement at its most surprising.
May 22, 2019 Remember Icing Bros? Somehow Smirnoff Made It Worse Just make a spritz instead!
May 22, 2019 Black Neighbors Refused to Let Gentrification Close This Bar “As our erasure happens, we’re trying very hard to protect our spaces.”
May 21, 2019 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 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.

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12:36 P.M. The Strategist’s Mega Memorial Day Sales Roundup Your one-stop shop for a long weekend of deal-sniffing.
12:10 P.M. What Cosme Chef Daniela Soto-Innes Can’t Live Without Including her favorite deodorant, toothpaste, and yoga pants.
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May 22, 2019 Don’t Dilly Dally: 10 New Things That Will Sell Out Soon Including a poo-shaped handbag.
May 22, 2019 What Are the Best Ways to Clean Silver? “We do want a piece of silver to shine, but not too much. It is a subtle look, like silk rather than chrome.”
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May 22, 2019 The 16 Best Books for Dealing With Grief Culled from the recommendations of 18 grief specialists.
May 22, 2019 The Antimicrobial Sponge That Tells Me When to Toss It The funny thing about the sponge is that the more I use it, the more I don’t notice it — in a good way.
May 22, 2019 A Bunch of Things Are are Up to 45 Percent Off at Nordstrom Plus some things for the home.
May 22, 2019 What’s the Best Shaving Cream for Men? Twelve men’s-grooming experts on their favorite shaving creams, foams, and soaps for the perfect lather.
May 22, 2019 The 4-Step Makeup Routine I’m Stealing From Hailey Bieber It’s really just four things.
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