They walk among us in just about every office: People with their laptops open, bound for conference rooms and common areas, many keeping their devices ajar to avoid losing those precious few seconds of computer wake-up time.
Disney’s animated film Frozen was a stone-cold smash in 2013, earning nearly $1.3 billion at the box office while also spawning a Broadway adaptation—not to mention a baby-naming fad.
Dinner. It happens every night, whether you’re ready or not.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside”—a song written by a Jewish composer that has become a secular Christmas anthem—played a small but crucial role in the rise of modern Islamic fundamentalism.
US radio stations are banning the 73-year-old holiday standard “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” for suggestive banter that once seemed charming, but now feels pretty rapey.
Robert Mueller’s office recommended on Tuesday evening that former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn serve little to no jail time, because his assistance on the special counsel’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election was “particularly valuable.”
Angela Merkel tried repeatedly to convince a 101-year-old Frenchwoman this weekend that she was not “Madame Macron.”
Efraim Halevy, the former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad, has joined the board of Black Cube, the private intelligence company that was hired to find dirt on Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo accusers and former members of the Obama administration.
Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, attended by dozens of world leaders, with a warning.
Donald Trump wasted no time ousting attorney general Jeff Sessions, a longtime thorn in his side, after the midterm elections. His replacement, Matthew Whitaker has said he has “a lot of respect” for special counsel Robert Mueller, but he also has a long history of criticizing Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
Interpol president Meng Hongwei has been detained by by Chinese anti-corruption authorities who are investigating him for unspecified crimes. He went missing a week ago after traveling to China from France, where he he is based.
The US senate judiciary committee hearing on recommending Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court was delayed Friday after two protesters confronted senator Jeff Flake—an Arizona Republican and the swing vote on the committee—on an elevator for more than five minutes.
As Hurricane Florence bears down on the US East Coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has a $10 million hole in its budget—from funds that were diverted for Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants.
Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea does not require him to cooperate with federal prosecutors or special counsel Robert Mueller. But a veteran criminal defense attorney told Quartz that it’s clear Cohen is already snitching:
The legendary singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin, known widely as the Queen of Soul, died in her Detroit home today, according to her publicist. She was 76.
Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at the age of 76 in her home in Detroit, was an icon of strength and power for her feminist/civil-rights anthem “Respect.” She won 18 Grammys, sold more than 75 million records, and was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone named her the greatest singer of all time.
Michael Cohen has a recording of Donald Trump discussing a hush money payout to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Now the FBI has it too.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned, after the board discovered a past consensual relationship he had with a subordinate.
Michael Cohen, the personal lawyer and longtime fixer for US president Donald Trump, reportedly has a new lawyer: Guy Petrillo, the former chief of the criminal division in the Southern District of New York, according to Vanity Fair.
Hours before Donald Trump stunned the G7 with a friendly overture to Russia, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sealed their status as BFFs. The Chinese president even gave his Russian counterpart a large gold necklace—technically a “friendship medal”—as a symbol of their growing bond.
Donald Trump announced today that he was pardoning conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to making illegal campaign contributions. Trump also told reporters he was considering a commutation and pardon for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, respectively.
In recent months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump administration has focused on a broad web of payments from foreign governments and corporations to major players in Donald Trump’s orbit. Primary among them are Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and fixer, and Elliott Broidy, a businessman and major Trump fundraiser.
The government of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko paid at least $400,000 to Michael Cohen, the personal lawyer of US president Donald Trump, to arrange a meeting at the White House, according to a blockbuster report by the BBC, citing “sources in Kiev close to those involved.”
