Here’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party. The sudden implosion of the Know Nothings should also serve as a warning to Republicans that the forces that have propelled them to the apex of American politics, helping Donald Trump win the White House, can also tear them apart, leaving barely a trace.
Which issues Democratic presidential candidates are talking about on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram - Washington Post. Hope Hicks, West Wing Alum, Begins Her Second Act on the West Coast. In early October, shortly after the newly spun-off Fox media company announced her appointment as chief communications officer, Hope Hicks flew to Los Angeles and set up shop at the Century City InterContinental to meet with her new counterparts, the Hollywood trade press.
During her years flacking for Donald Trump, Hicks had developed a reputation among political reporters as a fair broker of sorts. Election Hacking: The Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin's Plot. Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin was at his desk on June 7, 2016, when the calls started coming in.
It was the day of the California presidential primary, and upset voters wanted the county's top prosecutor to know that they had been prevented from casting their ballots. "There were people calling our office and filing complaints that they had tried to vote and that their registration had been changed unbeknownst to them," says Hestrin. Soon there were more than 20 reports of trouble, and Hestrin, a 19-year veteran of the office and a graduate of Stanford Law School, dispatched investigators to county polling places to see what was going on. At first what they found was reassuring. Everyone who had been blocked from voting had been offered a provisional ballot, and most had cast their votes that way.
There the trail went cold. Illustration by Ben Wiseman for TIME Related On Nov. 1, the White House went so far as to war-game an Election Day attack. The Language of Falconry. You probably don’t realise – we all talk the language of falconry!
Having such a long and rich history around the world, the practice of falconry has developed an extensive vocabulary to describe it. Over time many of these words and phrases have become part of everyday life without many of us realising the original meaning behind the term. For example: "I’m just so fed up with all this work. " The term to be 'fed up' comes from the falconry term for when a trained hawk has eaten its fill. "That guy is so under her thumb! " "Ha ha - he's been hoodwinked! " "Noel has been working too hard - he’s looking a bit haggard! " Boris Berezovsky (businessman) - Wikipedia.
Berezovsky was reportedly the only person who, after the Karmadon Gorge tragedy when an avalanche buried the film crew of the Russian director Sergei Bodrov, immediately allocated a large sum of money for the search for survivors.
[citation needed] "I said that they will publish it and you will look bad. Notable nonfiction books in 2016. (Jennifer Chase for The Washington Post) Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial ,By Rabia Chaudry (St.
Martin’s) Lawyer Chaudry expands on her 17-year struggle to win a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction and appeals process were heard on the “Serial” podcast. Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age By Dan Zak (Blue Rider) Beginning with the story of protesters’ break-in at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., government facility where thousands of nuclear bomb cores are stored, Washington Post journalist Dan Zak examines the state of nuclear security and diplomacy. The Slave Who Stole the Confederate Codes—and a Rebel Warship. When three Confederate officers decided to go ashore for a night in Charleston, they left their gunboat—and their naval codes—in the hands of an enslaved pilot.
It was a critical mistake. We don’t know precisely why the three white officers on board a Confederate transport and gunboat called the CSS Planter decided to go ashore in Charleston, South Carolina, the night of May 12, 1862. Maybe they went to see their families. Maybe they went drinking or whoring. Paul Manafort isn’t a GOP retread. He’s made a career of reinventing tyrants and despots. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace, is impressive by the standards of Palm Beach—less so when judged against the abodes of the world’s autocrats.
It doesn’t, for instance, quite compare with Mezhyhirya, the gilded estate of deposed Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych. Trump may have 33 bathrooms and three bomb shelters, but his mansion lacks a herd of ostrich, a galleon parked in a pond, and a set of golden golf clubs. Yet the two properties are linked, not just in ostentatious spirit, but by the presence of one man. Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain, an operative named Paul Manafort. Ukrainians use the term “political technologist” as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Given Manafort’s experience and skill set, it never made sense that he would be limited to such a narrow albeit crucial task as delegate accumulation.