NRAAM 2019, Full of Sound & Fury, Signifying Nothing? Recap for the Record

Opinion NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits In Indianapolis, Indiana 2019 USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The National Rifle Association gathered for 2019 Annual Meeting of Members last month amid a firestorm of rumors, accusations, and threats. It promised to be the most contentious Members' Meeting in decades, and it didn't disappoint on that score. But the gathering, which was preceded by rumbling thunder, leading into lightning cracks and howling winds, concluded with a hollow, unsatisfying whimper. F...
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Meet ‘The Prepared,’ the media company pitching disaster preparedness for everyone

A little over two years ago, The New Yorker ran a story about the survivalism craze sweeping Silicon Valley. The moneyed elite behind the tools of convenience that make modern life were, it turned out, making detailed contingency plans for the collapse of the civilization they’d help architect. Now, there’s a media company for that. The Prepared, a new site launched a little over a year ago by three men — two who have their own ties to the tech world — is aiming to make the world of survivalism ...
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Nurit Karlin, Who Found Her Voice in Wordless Cartoons, Dies at 80

Whimsical, thoughtful and caption-less was her style when The New Yorker took her on in 1974. At the time, she was the magazine’s only female cartoonist.
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Trump Dials Up the Pressure on Iran

The latest set of sanctions on Tehran could make a bad situation worse.
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New York Today: A Beer Run From N.Y.C. to Vietnam Ends Up in Hollywood

Friday: The director of “Green Book” will adapt the story of a New Yorker’s daring trip to Vietnam in the late 1960s to deliver beer to soldiers.
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History Repeats Itself: How Corruption Nearly Killed The NRA Twice

The National Rifle Association is in a multi-million dollar legal firefight with one of its own: Ackerman McQueen, the Oklahoma-based advertising firm behind NRATV. The NRA portrays itself as an unwitting dupe in the April 12 lawsuit, alleging that its 40-year partner swindled it through contracts that allowed the ad firm to charge virtually unlimited expenses and potentially permitted current NRA president Oliver North to double-dip into the group’s finances. The New Yorker followed up with ...
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SAP welcomes Elliott's $1.3 billion investment; shares hit high

SAP has until now escaped the attention of activist investors, steered by co-founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner who has withstood tough competition from U.S. rivals and is still the biggest shareholder in the German company with 6.5 percent. It reported an adjusted operating margin of 24 percent for the first quarter as it grapples with a catch-up transition to cloud computing. "This is that magic moment that people have been waiting for where they are like, wow, nobody grows like SAP, but c...
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White House Refuses to Turn Over AT&T-Time Warner Records to House Democrats

WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to turn over records of communications related to the AT&T-Time Warner merger after House Democrats demanded such information, prompted by New Yorker report that President Trump had ordered advisers to pressure the Justice Department to block the deal. Pat Cipollone, the counsel to the president, wrote that such […]
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Trump escalates attack on Ilhan Omar despite rise in death threats – live

The president called the Minnesota congresswoman ‘out of control’ after Nancy Pelosi request a review of Omar’s securitySign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.28pm BST New polling out of New Hampshire shows Bernie Sanders topping the primary there, with prospective candidate Joe Biden trailing slightly behind. Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in his neighboring state by a wide margin. South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg is in third place, a reflection of his heightened profile. ...
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News Leaders Fight Back Against Trump’s Claims That Journos Wrong On Mueller

NEW YORK (AP) — News industry leaders are fighting back against the charge by President Donald Trump and his supporters that the administration’s summation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report proved that journalists were “so wrong for so long” in their coverage of the Russia investigation. The latest to weigh in was Steve Coll, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, who wrote in a New Yorker magazine essay this week that it’s wrong to conclude journalism failed be...
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Book Covers for the Mueller Report

The New Yorker asked five designers to design book covers for the Mueller Report in the event that it’s eventually published. Here are my two favorites, by Michael Bierut and Na Kim: Tags: books   design   Michael Bierut   Na Kim   Robert Mueller [Author: Jason Kottke]
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Wall Disease - How Do Walls Affect How We Feel?

Jessica Wapner writes in the New Yorker about the research into how border walls affect the people living near them. In the nineteen-sixties, Dietfried Müller-Hegemann wrote as though the physical presence of the Berlin Wall were itself the cause of wall disease. But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Christine Leuenberger, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied walls around the world, says that ba...
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Apple Unveils $9.99 News Subscription Service Dubbed Apple News+

Apple unveiled a news subscription service called Apple News+ at its services event in Cupertino, Calif. Monday. The $9.99 service gives paying subscribers access to over 300 magazines as well as select newspapers and premium digital news services. “We believe in the power of journalism and the impact it will have on your lives,” said […]
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April 12: Roz Chast at Politics and Prose

Roz Chast and Patricia Marx - Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions — in conversation with Melissa Block ...
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How Elizabeth Holmes convinced powerful men like Henry Kissinger, James Mattis, and George Shultz to sit on the board of now-disgraced blood-testing startup Theranos

Theranos at one point had a star-studded board of directors, including military leaders and former secretaries of state.  In HBO's "The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley," director Alex Gibney spoke to reporters who wrote the first major profiles of the now-disgraced blood-testing company in 2014.  The reporters spoke to Theranos's board members, who explained why they were backing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.  "The Inventor" is available on HBO now.  Theranos founder Elizabeth ...
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Open Mike: The Thousand Centuries

["Open Mike" is the anything-goes, often off-topic Editorial page of TOP. It's supposed to appear on Wednesdays, but this has been an atypical week for me. That's my excuse. —Mike the Ed.] Ronnie O'Sullivan, from his Facebook page. With eventualchampion Judd Trump back in the bokeh. Just briefly—I know a lot of people don't care for cue sports, but I'm a lifelong pool buff and, lately, utterly besotted with the quirky put perfect English game of snooker. Snooker currently has a larger-than-li...
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The White House And Its 'Shadow Cabinet' Of Fox News TV Hosts

Past administrations have had favored press members, says New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, "but nothing where someone is so close in that they are coordinating on a daily basis with the president." (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
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The Automation Revolution

There is a ton — a literal TON — of talk these days about automation. It’s the next great promise. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. All that. The New Yorker actually had an article last year saying automation would be like compressing the Industrial Revolution (the one you learned about in school) into the lifespan of […]
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Democrats Reject Fox News as 2020 Debate Host, Citing Ties to Trump

The rebuke by the Democratic National Committee was prompted by an article in The New Yorker that reported on ties between President Trump and the network.
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Democrats reject Fox News for 2020 debates over Trump relationship – live

DNC chairman Tom Perez cited New Yorker exposé on depth of administration’s ‘inappropriate’ ties to news networkSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 6.53pm GMT Donald Trump’s DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sounded the alarm before Congress on Wednesday over a recent spike in apprehensions at the US-Mexico border. The Guardian’s Amanda Holpuch has an analysis well worth your time about what that tells us about the Trump administration’s policy failures on immigration. 6.34pm...
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Andrew Ridker's Playlist for His Novel "The Altruists"

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Andrew Ridker's debut novel The Altruists is a family drama both ambitious and intimate. Booklist wrote of the book: "Beautifully written, with witty, pitch-perfect dialogue and f...
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Trump-Fox News relationship is a whole new world

On Monday, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer published an explosive expose on "the Fox News White House," a deeply reported story alleging that the channel had killed a story about Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election and that President Trump tried to spike the AT&T-Time Warner merger apparently because he wasn't happy with the news coverage of his presidency by CNN, which is now owned by AT&T. The story makes clear in vivid detail that Mayer's answer to the headline question about Fox...
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Trump-Fox News relationship is unprecedented

On Monday, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer published an explosive expose on "the Fox News White House," a deeply reported story alleging that the channel had killed a story about Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election and that President Trump tried to spike the AT&T-Time Warner merger apparently because he wasn't happy with the news coverage of his presidency by CNN, which is now owned by AT&T. The story makes clear in vivid detail that Mayer's answer to the headline question about Fox...
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Dems say they will probe report that Trump tried to quash AT&T-Time Warner merger

On a day defined by the launch of a new Democratic investigation into possible abuses of power by President Trump, The New Yorker magazine presented yet another line of potential inquiry.
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Opinion: Why the Trump-Fox News relationship really is unprecedented

On Monday, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer published an explosive expose on "the Fox News White House," a deeply reported story alleging that the channel had killed a story about Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election and that President Trump tried to spike the AT&T-Time Warner merger apparently because he wasn't happy with the news coverage of his presidency by CNN, which is now owned by AT&T. The story makes clear in vivid detail that Mayer's answer to the headline question about Fox...
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Fox News: Unfair and Unbalanced Propaganda

Jane Mayer, author of the very well-reviewed Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, has a big piece in the New Yorker today on the close relationship between the Trump administration and Fox News. Hannity was treated in Texas like a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network clos...
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Ex-Fox Host: Network Has ‘Problem On Its Hands’ If Report On Nixing Stormy Story True

Abby Huntsman, a former Fox News host, said Monday that if the recent New Yorker report on Fox News’ influence in the White House and decision to nix a story about the Stormy Daniels hush payments is true, the network has a “problem on its hands.” “If this story is true–and there are many reasons to believe it is, based off the piece–that is a real, real problem for Fox and it’s a problem for the journalists that work there that want to break these stories. That’s why they’re there, to do the...
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Report: Fox News Had Stormy Daniels Story Before Election, Killed It To Protect Trump

A Fox News reporter had doggedly reported on President Donald Trump’s hush money payment to Stormy Daniels only to see it killed because Fox News co-chairman Rupert Murdoch wanted Trump to win, according to a New Yorker report. The reporter, Diana Falzone, had the bulk of the story together and confirmed by October 2016, per the New Yorker. She had confirmation from Daniels, emails between Michael Cohen and Daniels’ attorney and even the contract Daniels signed. Fox editors punted it around t...
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35 Perfect Reasons To Love New Yorker Cartoons

If you spend any time on Instagram or Facebook, New Yorker Cartoons is a great follow for a daily chuckle/smirk/snort. The single panel comics are a permanent fixture in the magazine as well as online and despite being around well before the Internet, their format works perfectly in today’s endlessly scrolling feeds. Below you will find 35 of the most loved New Yorker cartoons shared online in the... Source
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The Coolest Spots To Get A Piercing In New York City

Being a New Yorker is about more than having the right zip code. There are also a few New York-specific rituals you must complete: You must attend at least one Yankees or Mets game — if not for the crowd antics, then for the overpriced beer. You must partake in a Sabrett hot dog when it's offered to you by a street vendor. And you must, absolutely must, get pierced at one of the many historic hot spots scattered all over the island (and in some outer boroughs).And while a last-minute baseball g...
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