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Ted Cruz’s Former Staffers Are ‘Disgusted’ by His New Low for Trump

“I could have never imagined that he could have gone down this road.”

By Ben Jacobs and Olivia Nuzzi

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What the Vision and the Scarlet Witch Comics Can Tell Us About WandaVision

Let’s take a look at the source material.

By Nola Pfau

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They’ve Been Calling for Bloodshed the Whole Time

The party has built its power on those on the right inciting violence.

By Rebecca Traister

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What Is in Joe Biden’s Stimulus Package Plan?

The $1.9 trillion proposal includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and $400 federal weekly unemployment benefits though September.
Joanne Rogers, Widow of Fred Rogers, Dies at the Age of 92

The pair were married for fifty years prior to the television legend’s death in 2003.
Joe Biden’s Amtrak Trip to His Inauguration Has Been Derailed

The inauguration itinerary has changed to protect the president-elect from Trump’s legacy.
High-School Therapist Arrested for Storming the Capitol

In a resignation letter, she said she was “switching paths to expose the global evil of human trafficking and pedophilia.”
Siegfried Fischbacher, Magician of Siegfried & Roy, Dies at 81

His partner, Roy Horn, died just eight months ago due to COVID-19.
Trump Faces Senate Trial After Second Impeachment: Live Updates

The House impeached Trump for inciting insurrection, with the support of 10 Republicans. The trial will take place during Biden’s administration.
Olympic Gold Medalist Klete Keller Charged in Capitol Riot

The swimmer was identified by his “Team USA” jacket and 6 foot 6 inch frame.
Andrew Yang Enters NYC Mayor’s Race With Darren Aronofsky Directed Campaign Vid

His first order of business? Bring Tik Tok Hype Houses to NYC.
Ex-Michigan Governor Charged With Willful Neglect of Duty for Flint Water Crisis

Rick Snyder’s offense stems back to the 2014 decision to switch Flint’s water source and contaminate the city’s drinking supply with lead.
A Lox on Both Your Houses: Jerry Nadler Brought a Zabar’s Bag to the Impeachment

He’s on the Upper West Side of the aisle.
Election Star Jessica Campbell Dead at 38

Later a naturopathic physician, she died “unexpectedly” last month.
With Democrats in Control of Congress, Hope Rises for Restaurant Relief

“We feel pretty good that we can get the bill passed.”
America’s Dad Will Host America’s Inauguration Special

A very different lineup from last time.
AOC: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’ During Capitol Siege

The Congresswoman also said she worried Republicans would put her in danger during the riots.
GOP Reps. Revolt Against Basic Security After Capitol Insurrection

Several Republicans walked past House Chamber metal detectors and many more objected to the security measure common in American life.
Pence Tells Pelosi He Will Not Invoke 25th Amendment to Remove Trump

As Pence’s relationship with Trump appears to fall apart, he is upholding the final days of his presidency.
City Aims to End the Wollman Rink Contract That Built Trump’s Myth

The rink was a minor success that Trump blew out of proportion.
‘QAnon Shaman’ in Federal Custody Granted Special Organic Diet

“He gets very sick if he doesn’t eat organic food,” Jake Angeli’s mom said.
Mo Brooks Is Definitely Not a Criminal, So Stop Asking

In a bizarre statement, Brooks defended himself from “scurrilous, George Orwellian, 1984, Socialist Democrats Politics of Personal Destruction.”
Mitch McConnell Reportedly Open to Impeaching Trump

The Senate majority leader has supposedly told associates how he feels about the process unfurling against the president.

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9:11 A.M. How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York After a sluggish start, New York is ramping up vaccination efforts, making more people eligible for the shot and opening new mass vaccination sites.
7:00 A.M. Who Will Be in Charge of Trump’s Impeachment Trial? Why it may not be Chief Justice John Roberts this time around.
Jan. 14, 2021 Trump Faces Trial After Second Impeachment: Live Updates The House impeached Trump for inciting insurrection, with the support of 10 Republicans. The trial will take place during Biden’s administration.
Jan. 14, 2021 Cruz’s Former Staffers ‘Disgusted’ by His New Low for Trump “I could have never imagined that he could have gone down this road.”
Jan. 14, 2021 What Is in Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package Plan? The proposal includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and $400 federal weekly unemployment benefits through September.
Jan. 14, 2021 New York Attorney General Sues NYPD for ‘Pattern of Abuse’ The state attorney general asserts that cops illegally used “excessive force and [made] false arrests” during last summer’s demonstrations.
Jan. 14, 2021 Everything We Know About Joe Biden’s Inauguration Biden’s inauguration was already set to look drastically different due to COVID, and after the Capitol riot, security concerns have skyrocketed.
Jan. 14, 2021 Why Deplatforming Might Be Bad Answer to Right-Wing Violence The science isn’t clear yet — but there might be a moderating effect to more public forums like Facebook and Twitter
Jan. 14, 2021 A History of the Trump Era Through Stories About Toilets Trump’s motive was right in front of us all along.
Jan. 14, 2021 Are There Enough Senate Republican Votes to Convict Trump? With the MAGA base still strong and plenty of excuses for Republicans to say no, conviction faces steep odds.
Jan. 14, 2021 Post-Capitol Hill Riot Polls Reveal Big Problem for GOP Even as Trump’s overall popularity hits all-time lows, a large portion of the Republican base sees him as their champion.
Jan. 14, 2021 Republicans: Impeaching Trump Would Make Us Look Pro-Riot The backward logic of Ben Shapiro.
Jan. 13, 2021 Ex-Michigan Gov. Faces Criminal Charge in Flint Water Crisis Rick Snyder’s alleged offense stems back to the 2014 decision to switch Flint’s water source and contaminate the city’s drinking supply with lead.
Jan. 13, 2021 Airbnb Host Realized His Guests Were Insurrectionists Paul thought they were tourists, until he heard: “We stormed the Capitol.”
Jan. 13, 2021 The Timeline for Trump’s Second Impeachment and Senate Trial A lot depends on when the House transmits an impeachment article to the Senate — and whether it’s constitutional to try to convict an ex-president.
Jan. 13, 2021 Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached Twice Ten Republicans joined every House Democrat in voting to impeach. Trump’s Senate trial may start just as Biden takes office.
Jan. 13, 2021 In Twist Ending, Trump Presidency Proves to Be Morality Tale By putting victory above all else, the greedy old man lost what he valued most.
Jan. 13, 2021 Hawley: I Stood Up to Capitol Mob by Endorsing Its Demands The Missouri senator explains his bravery.
Jan. 13, 2021 Photos: The Capitol Now Looks Like a Barracks National Guard members are suddenly everywhere, one week after the building was overrun.

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10:44 A.M. The Last Man Set to Be Executed by the Trump Administration What to know about Dustin Higgs, the final person scheduled to be killed in Trump’s cruel and unprecedented execution spree.
10:40 A.M. You Don’t Have to Commit There’s no point to sticking with an exercise routine if you don’t actually like it.
10:07 A.M. The Fashion Editor Who Just Went Solo Karissa Mitchell launched her own clothing line this past November. video
Jan. 14, 2021 They’ve Been Calling for Bloodshed the Whole Time It’s not just Trump — some on the right have supported violence for years now; the party has built its power on them.
Jan. 14, 2021 Ivanka and Jared Don’t Let Just Anyone Use Their Toilets They apparently forced their Secret Service detail to go to extraordinary lengths to heed nature’s call.
Jan. 14, 2021 Every Coffee-Shop Writer Had a Chance Riz Ahmed is secretly married (!) to someone he met in a coffee shop (!!!).
Jan. 14, 2021 High-School Therapist Arrested for Storming the Capitol In a resignation letter, she said she was “switching paths to expose the global evil of human trafficking and pedophilia.”
Jan. 14, 2021 How to Look (and Feel) a Little Less Gray Instant glow for only $15.
Jan. 14, 2021 Simone Rocha Has a Surprise for You Hint: It’s going to be highly affordable.
Jan. 14, 2021 Sephora Has a Plan to Tackle Racial Bias New protocol, fewer security guards, and more Black-owned beauty brands.
Jan. 14, 2021 The Parisian Designer Whose Brand Means ‘Friend’ Alexandre Mattiussi has chic in his DNA.
Jan. 14, 2021 The Most Serious Astrologer on TikTok Maren Altman wants to build an empire, one video at a time.
Jan. 14, 2021 Why Are the Backstreet Boys Tweeting About QAnon? Kevin sure looks to be subtweeting his pro-Trump cousin.
Jan. 14, 2021 AOC: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’ During the Capitol Riots And Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff says all the panic buttons in Pressley’s office were ripped out.
Jan. 14, 2021 Turns Out It’s Pretty Good: Going Outside My fellow homebodies are not in their element right now, because no one is.
Jan. 14, 2021 How Do I Save Up an Emergency Fund? Saving money isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be so hard, either.
Jan. 13, 2021 Nancy Pelosi Wore Her Impeachment Suit Again It’s the same thing she wore to the last impeachment — a subtle sartorial dig.
Jan. 13, 2021 Trump Just Became the Only President to Be Impeached Twice And in the most bipartisan impeachment vote ever, at that!

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11:31 A.M. So, Which Real Housewife of New York Tested COVID Positive? “Page Six” reports a housewife caught the virus, but won’t say who.
11:20 A.M. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Drama Following the release of his single “Lie Lie Lie,” Bassett shared that he is currently in the hospital recovering from surgery.
11:08 A.M. 4 Public Radio Stations Have Dropped The Daily The move stems from the fallout at the New York Times surrounding the Caliphate controversy.
11:00 A.M. News of the World Features Tom Hanks at His Best A Western from the director of Captain Phillips and The Bourne Ultimatum, if you can believe that.
9:53 A.M. WandaVision Recap: Use Your Illusion Trouble is clearly brewing in Westview.
9:43 A.M. Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls Guitarist, Dead at 69 He had been battling cancer for several years.
9:34 A.M. In Tiger, a Portrait of a Troubled Phenom A two-part HBO documentary shows the toll of an overbearing father and life as a golf prodigy.
9:25 A.M. Of Course Bruce Springsteen Is Playing Biden’s Inauguration John Legend, the Foo Fighters, Eva Longoria, and Kerry Washington have also been added.
9:00 A.M. Samantha Power’s 10 Favorite Books Invisible Man, The Long Loneliness, Hiroshima, and more.
8:07 A.M. Juice WRLD’s Final Music Video, ‘Bad Boy,’ Is Out The late rapper filmed one last visual with Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett.
8:00 A.M. Every Show Should Have an Episode With Fred Melamed WandaVision is a testament to this.
7:30 A.M. What Marvel Comics Story Lines Can Tell Us About WandaVision How did the two MCU characters end up, happily, in trailers for this month’s post-Endgame Disney+ series? Let’s take a look at the source material.
6:00 A.M. WandaVision Recap: Guess Who’s Reality-Warping to Dinner? The MCU’s unplanned drought comes to an end with a bold, intriguing deviation from the norm, but what’s all this building toward?
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Jan. 14, 2021 Emma Thompson to Hurl You Over the Fence in Netflix Matilda Alisha Weir will play the titular telekinetic kid in the streamer’s adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Jan. 14, 2021 Southern Charm Recap: Party Hardly The big final party brings more talk of Kathryn’s racism, while Madison and Austin continue to flirt and spar.
Jan. 14, 2021 Your Prince Patrick Dempsey Returns for Enchanted Sequel Find out what happens after Happily Ever After.

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Jan. 14, 2021 The Best Bitters, According to Bartenders An option for every cocktail (including ones without alcohol).
Jan. 14, 2021 A Gift for Every Type of Wife Including a sophisticated stuffed ostrich, fuzzy slippers, and a status workout sneaker.
Jan. 14, 2021 These Fast-to-Sell-Out Spin Bikes Are Worthy Peloton Dupes And are just as good as the real thing.
Jan. 14, 2021 58 Valentine’s Day Gifts for Every Type of Boyfriend Whether he’s a coffee snob, a plant guy, or in need of a loungewear upgrade.
Jan. 14, 2021 This Lip Balm Is Just $1 Thanks to UO’s Very Good Sale Hundreds of already-discounted products are an extra 40 percent off.
Jan. 14, 2021 Some Truly Excellent (Under $25) Skin-Care Products Skincare doesn’t have to be expensive to be good.
Jan. 14, 2021 10 Things On Sale You’ll Want: From Filson to Everlane Including a bunch of warm-weather gear for him and her and a deeply discounted duvet set.
Jan. 14, 2021 Here Are All of Our Favorite Clogs in One Place From high-heeled status clogs to clogs you can perform surgery in.
Jan. 13, 2021 11 Things That’ll Definitely Sell Out: From Telfar to Target Including a Loewe x Totoro collection that’s equal parts nostalgia and fashion.
Jan. 13, 2021 The Best Face Mask Cases (That Are Actually Worth Buying) “We know that a clean dry mask does the best job of filtering particles.”
Jan. 13, 2021 Is There Any Good Biden-Harris Merch? We asked around and came back with tees, sweatshirts, masks, mugs, and more.
Jan. 13, 2021 What’s the Best Waffle Clothing for Women? Including leggings and turtlenecks.
Jan. 13, 2021 This $32 Candle Smells Exactly Like Diptyque’s Figuier Its notes include olive leaves, polar, and fig, and to my average nose, it smells identical to Figuier. Except it costs $32.
Jan. 13, 2021 This Costume Designer–Approved Bra Doesn’t Stop at a D Cup “It’s become the Commando thong of bras.”

Jan. 14, 2021 Being a Trump Is a Liability Now, Even if You’ve Sued Donald Fred Trump III was asked to leave his position at Cushman & Wakefield.
Jan. 14, 2021 Joe Biden’s Amtrak Trip to D.C. Has Been Derailed The inauguration itinerary has changed to protect the president-elect from Trump’s legacy.
Jan. 14, 2021 We Unearthed the 46 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Several especially cool apartments in Greenwich Village, a quirky Red Hook apartment, and more.
Jan. 13, 2021 Jerry Nadler Brought a Zabar’s Bag to the Impeachment He’s on the Upper West Side of the aisle.
Jan. 13, 2021 Can an Armored Capitol Still Be the People’s House? The protesters shouted “This is our house!” as they sacked it.
Jan. 13, 2021 This Streetery is Going to Clobber Bicyclists Its many doors open directly into a bike lane.
Jan. 13, 2021 A $310K Clinton Hill Studio and a Huge Lenox Hill Apartment Plus, a $560K West Village studio that feels kind of like a full-size apartment.
Jan. 13, 2021 A Florida Family Bought the Viral Shag-Carpet House It’ll soon be a vacation rental, but without all of the wall-to-wall carpeting.
Jan. 13, 2021 NYC Ends the Skating-Rink Contract That Built Trump’s Myth The rink was a minor success that Trump blew out of proportion.
Jan. 13, 2021 5 Things to Buy from Crosby Studios’ New Home-Goods Line Designer Harry Nuriev wants to make it easier for people to reinvent their homes in his image.
Jan. 12, 2021 The Vessel Closes Indefinitely After a Third Suicide Calls to raise the structure’s railings have previously been ignored.
Jan. 12, 2021 No One Is Selling New York Harder Than This TikTok Couple And, against all odds, we find it … slightly charming?
Jan. 12, 2021 A Waterfall Wall in a Lower East Side Carriage House The owners transformed a vintage platform elevator shaft into a stairway with the waterfall as backdrop.
Jan. 12, 2021 First Look: Ace Hotel Brooklyn Is Opening this Spring Downtown Brooklyn finally gets a destination hotel.
Jan. 12, 2021 A 1796 Townhouse With a Skylit Copper Tub The 25-foot-wide brick townhouse on Harriston Street also has the biggest private backyard on the block.
Jan. 11, 2021 How Do We Preserve Artifacts From the Capitol Attacks? And where do we show them to the world — in the building or at the Smithsonian?
Jan. 11, 2021 Broker Backs Out of Effort to Sell Trump’s D.C. Hotel Bids for the hotel were coming in at less than half the asking price.
Jan. 11, 2021 A Hamptons Carriage House Where the ’60s Art World Hung Out Julia Gruen grew up surrounded by artists and writers in her parents’ summer home, which she has kept pretty much as it was.
Jan. 11, 2021 A Phoenix Is Coming to Coney Island Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park plans to return post-COVID with a new roller coaster.
Jan. 8, 2021 Amazon’s Affordable Housing Pledge Won’t Fix Anything The nearly $2 trillion company will put $2 billion toward low-cost loans to developers.

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9:05 A.M. Comedian Steven Phillips-Horst’s Grub Street Diet “My boyfriend is a brilliant chef, but left to my own devices I’m a ’90s sitcom widower cliché.”
Jan. 14, 2021 The Instagram Account Holding Restaurants Accountable He broke Sqirl’s mold scandal wide open and revealed racism at a popular pizza shop. But who is Joe Rosenthal, really?
Jan. 14, 2021 Potatoes Will Make a Triumphant Return to Taco Bell’s Menu Now do Mexican Pizza.
Jan. 13, 2021 Hope Is Rising for Real Restaurant Relief “We feel pretty good that we can get the bill passed.”
Jan. 12, 2021 Inside the Food Feud at Rockaway Beach The boardwalk could look quite different this summer.
Jan. 11, 2021 Edy Massih Wants to Be ‘the Middle Eastern Martha Stewart’ At Edy’s Grocer, the chef is ready to go big.
Jan. 8, 2021 City Councilmember Carlina Rivera’s Grub Street Diet “I made a wish.”
Jan. 7, 2021 La Newyorkina, Fany Gerson’s Passion Project, Is Closing “We were doing numbers that we do in the dead of winter some days during the summer, which is crazy.”
Jan. 6, 2021 Dani Luv’s Next Act? Maybe Mayor. Sammy’s Roumanian’s house musician talks about the restaurant’s closing.
Jan. 6, 2021 The Random Restaurant Conversations We Can’t Have Right Now “It’s kind of an invisible thread in the fabric of a New Yorker’s daily existence.”
Jan. 5, 2021 Washington, D.C., Sets Date to Vaccinate Restaurant Workers Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, food-industry workers have been among those who have borne the brunt of the pandemic.
Jan. 5, 2021 Good-bye to Sammy’s Roumanian and Its Glorious Schmaltz New York’s favorite “Jewish disco” has closed its doors for good.
Jan. 4, 2021 When Can New York’s Grocery Store Workers Get Vaccinated? According to current projections, the state’s grocery workers will be eligible by the end of the month.
Jan. 4, 2021 The Case for Double Dinner We could all use some soup dumplings with a side of cheese fries right now.
Dec. 30, 2020 The Extraordinary Power of Soup Joumou It’s time for bowls filled to the brim with strength and courage.
Dec. 29, 2020 A Full Taxonomy of New York’s Winter Streeteries Bundle up and dig in.
Dec. 28, 2020 The Very Real, Totally Bizarre Bucatini Shortage of 2020 What the hole is going on?
Dec. 23, 2020 2020 Is the Year of Sidewalk Fatigue When will we be able to take the indoors for granted again?
Dec. 23, 2020 Los Deliveristas Unidos, the Essential Workers of Takeout Organizing the delivery workers who keep much of the city fed.

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