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One of the many ways that Donald Trump‘s first presidential term was unprecedented is that his brazen self-dealing triggered multiple federal lawsuits alleging violations of the Emoluments Clause, or the provision of the U.S. Constitution that bars federal officials from accepting money and gifts from both foreign and domestic actors. …

When Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani announced his campaign to run for mayor of New York City in October 2024, he was a virtually unknown state assembly member up against a Trump-friendly incumbent, Eric Adams. He wasn’t just a longshot —for many New Yorkers, he felt like an impossibility. But that …

Readers of Sunday’s New York Times were treated to an unusual full-page ad from a rival newspaper — the venerated satire periodical The Onion. Most of the available space was taken up by a mocking editorial piece with a headline that blared: “Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs …

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, content creator, lawyer, and TikTok journalist Aaron Parnas sat with one of his closest friends, Sam Schmir, in Parnas’s living room. Until January, Schmir did digital strategy at the White House, and had texted earlier that it was a “slow news day” — a seemingly …

S uppose your idea of radio personality Charlamagne tha God comes from clips of the veteran host’s most absurd moments on his show, The Breakfast Club. Like, when he asked Magic Johnson his first thought after receiving his HIV diagnosis. Or when, during a segment with rapper and actor Safaree, …

“I will find a way to spill blood.” This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and …

I n late February, a group of budding radicals gathered in a bare-bones studio space in Brooklyn for a nervous first meeting. A far-right administration had taken power in Washington, D.C., just five weeks prior, immediately launching a nationwide assault on their community. Now, these 13 New Yorkers, default members …

The headaches began a week before diagnosis. I’d had migraines as a toddler, but these were worse – and each night, the fevers were brutal. I’m talking windburn bad, 104 degrees, the kind that full-strength Advil didn’t touch. Then my little stomach started to swell. I was four years old …

If elections were decided by the internet’s views on sex appeal, New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani would already be living in Gracie Mansion. As it is, the state assemblyman still has to face a crowded Democratic primary that will be decided by rank choice voting. But online, some …

I t’s a hot-as-fuck Los Angeles morning. Near 80 degrees at 8 a.m., and Stephen A. Smith is having half of a lightly jellied bagel. We’re near a big-ass private park that abuts a 40-story black glass building rumored to house or have housed NBA super-agents, pop stars, white-hot young …