Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. The smell of fried Twinkies hangs in the air. Pork chops sizzle on the grill. The butter cow is cold, and the prizewinning pigs are snoozing. Yes, it’s that very special time of year, again: the Iowa […]
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Luxury gym Equinox and indoor cycling studio SoulCycle are facing a backlash from some members and celebrities over a fundraiser being held for President Donald Trump by a company executive. Stephen Ross, chairman and founder of real estate development company The Related Cos., which owns Equinox and SoulCycle, is throwing the Trump fundraiser on Friday
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Rylee, Nate and Prince all live just a few miles apart in Wolverhampton, but all are receiving different levels of support from GPs with their transgender care. All are on the waiting list for specialist care with NHS Gender Identity Clinics but are calling for more training of GPs in gender issues. Prince’s doctor has
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Everywhere you look is a nightmare. Video creator DrFakenstein, who is known for producing “deepfake” videos that are digitally altered to look realistic, released an unsettling creation on Tuesday. The bizarre crossover features the opening credits of “Full House” edited so that the cast members’ faces are replaced with a mustachioed Nick Offerman — who
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Image copyright Getty Images Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced a one-year spending review to give government departments “financial certainty” as they prepare for Brexit. Mr Javid said a “fast-tracked” spending round for 2020-21 would “clear the ground ahead of Brexit while delivering on people’s priorities”. Spending reviews typically tend to happen every two to three
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Indian-administered Kashmir is still in lockdown, following India’s controversial decision to remove its special status. Article 370 had given the area significant autonomy from the rest of the country. India and Pakistan both claim the Himalayan region of Kashmir in full, but each nation only controls a part of it. Young Kashmiris say they feel
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“We bring implicit theories, or rules, to how we behave at work,” said Amy C. Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied workplace communication. These ideas about how to speak and behave in an office can be valuable but also mistaken, and sometimes individually and institutionally counterproductive. (A workplace where nobody speaks up
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A state judge has ordered Jerry Sandusky be taken to a central Pennsylvania courtroom next month for resentencing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction, six months after an appeals court ruled mandatory minimums had been improperly applied. Judge John Foradora filed an order Wednesday that scheduled the proceeding for Sept. 23. Sandusky, a former
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WASHINGTON — Under intense pressure to take action on gun safety in the wake of two weekend massacres, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, expressed a new willingness Thursday to consider a measure expanding background checks for all gun purchasers, saying it will be “front and center” in a coming Senate debate on how to
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SAN FRANCISCO — Uber set two dubious quarterly records on Thursday as it reported its results: its largest-ever loss, exceeding $5 billion, and its slowest-ever revenue growth. The double whammy immediately renewed questions about the prospects for the company, the world’s biggest ride-hailing business. Uber has been dogged by concerns about sluggish sales and whether
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