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October 08, 2019
The Trump administration has blocked Gordon Sondland, a crucial witness to the president's wacky moves on Ukraine, from testifying to Congress. Meanwhile, polls show that even Republicans might be coming around on impeachment.
Succession's Shiv Roy is, as she puts it herself, "good cop" to her father's "misogynist cop." But she's not the only famous daughter of a mogul who might be done playing that role.
The royal was only a "trophy friend" to Jeffrey Epstein, claims a royal insider. And that notorious stroll through Central Park was actually a part of a breakup trip, says a report in the Sunday Times.
Thirty-five years after relenting to financier pressure to cut the scenes focused on black characters, Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 drama The Cotton Club, set in 1930s Harlem, is finally revealed as a gorgeous, densely rendered period picture, and a particular showcase for the late Gregory Hines. K. Austin Collins reviews.
Democratic senator Chris Murphy discusses Ukraine, impeachment, and how Trump cajoled Republicans into choosing president over party.
From 2012: Mitt Romney has long been a front-runner for the GOP nomination—even if no one really knows who he is. Digging into the candidate's record as a Mormon leader, his business deals at Bain Capital, and that infamous car trip with the family dog strapped to the roof, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman pierce the Mitt bubble in an adaptation from their new book, The Real Romney, to find that the contradictions, question marks, and ambivalence go deeper than his politics.
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