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We Finally Figured Out Why Paul Ryan Always Seems to Miss Trump Administration Scandals

Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) drew criticism after he claimed to have no knowledge of the many scandals currently plaguing EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt has come under fire for deploying his government staff or security detail to do everything…

New Report Shows Another Contact Between Trump Associates and a Russian Peddling Dirt On Clinton

Roger Stone arrives to testify behind closed-doors as part of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill Sept. 26, 2017.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post had a big scoop on Sunday: During the 2016 presidential campaign,…

Bad Boy! Eat This Pizza!

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Do Crime Declines Produce Higher Housing Prices?

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something out of the blue. A few days ago I read Chris Hayes’ A Colony In a Nation, and in it he asserted that New York City’s big crime decline of the 90s and aughts was partly responsible for the city’s skyrocketing property prices…