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hen-Democratic presidential hopeful, Gary Hart, accompanied by his wife Lee, waves to supporters at a news conference in Denver in 1988 after announcing he would withdraw from the 1988 presidential race.

Politicians’ sex lives used to be off-limits, until one scandal changed everything

December 11, 2018 at 10:51 p.m.

Something changed for good, and perhaps for very bad, in a single day in May 1987, director Jason Reitman says. Gary Hart, then the leading contender for the Democratic presidential...

James Wolfe, center, former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee, escorts former FBI director James Comey to a secure room to continue his testimony on the 2016 election and his firing by President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Leak investigation that led to Senate aide’s indictment puts spotlight on New York Times reporter

August 22, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

The first known leak investigation of the Trump administration has put under scrutiny a 20-something New York Times reporter, who enjoyed a meteoric rise through Washington's journalism ranks that began...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

A famed feminist attorney sides with Harvey Weinstein in harassment case

June 2, 2018 at 2:12 a.m.

Among the many surprising things about the sexual harassment allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is the identity of one of the people Weinstein has signed up to defend him....

Stephen Bannon, who served as an adviser to President Donald Trump, returned to his old post leading Breitbart News. The site's advertisers are targeted by a mysterious group called Sleeping Giant.

The mysterious group that wants to kill Breitbart’s ad revenue, one tweet at a time

June 2, 2018 at 8:17 a.m.

Hardly anyone paid attention last November when a strangely named Twitter account, Sleeping Giants, sent its first tweet into the digisphere. "Are you aware that you're advertising on Breitbart, the...

Why did CNN air a documentary about the band Chicago produced by band members?

June 6, 2018 at 11:10 a.m.

CNN pre-empted its usual prime-time programming on New Year's Day for a special two-hour film: A retrospective on the long career of the pop-rock group Chicago. The film traced the...

Corey Lewandowski talks to a member of the media April 3, 2016, at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis.

CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski remained on Trump payroll in August

August 21, 2019 at 8:12 p.m.

CNN commentator and former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was paid $20,000 in August by the campaign for what it described as "strategy consulting," raising anew the conflict of...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks with members of the media Sept. 5, 2016, aboard his campaign plane while flying over Ohio.

Donald Trump lifts ban on blacklisted media outlets at campaign events

August 21, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

Donald Trump said Wednesday he is ending his ban on several news organizations, including The Washington Post, that he had stripped of their credentials to cover his rallies and news...

In this Sept. 29, 2006 file photo, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes poses at Fox News studio in New York. At age 76, Ailes has been vanquished from Fox News Channel, which he masterminded almost 20 years ago and had lorded over ever since. Little more than two weeks ago, a lawsuit filed by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson charged him with sexual harassment. He denied her allegations, and those from other past and present female co-workers who spoke up after her. But with blistering speed his reign ended Thursday, July 21, 2016.

Fox News confronts, barely, the scandal in its own house

June 10, 2018 at 9:09 a.m.

It's one of the most intriguing stories of the summer, a tale of sex, money, politics and corporate skulduggery that would seem especially ripe for coverage and discussion by the...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands with vice presidential candidate Mike Pence after delivering his acceptance speech during the 2016 Republican National Convention July 21, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Reporter barred, patted down at rally for GOP vice presidential nominee Pence

May 14, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Donald Trump's campaign has denied press credentials to a number of disfavored media organizations, including The Washington Post, but on Wednesday, the campaign of his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike...

Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News and the Fox Television Stations Group.

The fall of Roger Ailes, architect of Fox News

August 21, 2019 at 7:20 p.m.

One day in early June, an embattled but determined news anchor, a public relations man and a group of attorneys settled into chairs around the conference table on the 35th...

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