AOC’s partner, Riley Roberts, is a ‘spouse’ to secure free gifts, but not when it comes to financial transparency AOC (Mario Tama/Getty Images) The House Ethics Committee rebuked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) for simultaneously claiming her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, is and isn’t her “spouse.” The committee’s rebuke stemmed from a lengthy explanation Ocasio-Cortez’s
On my first day in the television comedy business, I learned two important lessons. The first was that there really was a rule about words with the hard “k” sound. In Neil Simon’s brilliant play about two aging comedy stars, The Sunshine Boys, they both insist that “k” words are funny. And it turned out
The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph
Left-wing nonprofit reportedly considering closing up shop amid Elon Musk lawsuit Marc Elias (Wikimedia Commons) When Elon Musk sued Media Matters in 2023, the law firm of Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias swooped in to represent the liberal media group. It made little headway against the lawsuit before submitting millions of dollars in legal bills, prompting
New York firebrand accepted ‘impermissible gifts,’ House Ethics Committee rules Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) violated House Ethics rules after she attended the 2021 Met Gala in her infamous “Tax the Rich” dress, the House Ethics Committee ruled Friday, ordering her to repay a fashion designer nearly $3,000 for
ABC News correspondent James Longman is an ‘Instagram hottie’ known for flaunting his bod in war zones James Longman, aka the “Beirut Beefcake,” the most prominent (openly) gay correspondent at ABC News, just launched a new show on the Disney+ streaming app. Longman, who fell out with his former bosses at the BBC for comparing
Less than a third of the countries that already recognize a Palestinian state are expected to attend, insiders say French president Emmanuel Macron The upcoming two-state solution summit cohosted by France and Saudi Arabia is shaping up to be an “embarrassing” flop, with just around 50 countries expected to send representatives, according to a State