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Daniel Silva’s book “The Order,” out now, hits this week’s best-seller list. I stayed up all night reading it. So will you. The derring-do does with a biretta, a cassock, the papacy, Catholic conclave, prayer to prayer cardinals, a bishop or two and the Holy See. It’s anti-Semitism, Israelis, Europe, hatred, murder, the far right, …

Scottish author Irvine Welsh is teaming with Bret Easton Ellis on a satirical drama TV series about America’s tabloid press culture. Under the working title “American Tabloid,” the show will chronicle a weekly publication, Deadline reported, “where political correctness, morals and ethics are left firmly at the door.” The show will be produced by the …

Madison Cawthorn, the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he promised President Donald Trump to win millennial voters’ support for the president’s reelection bid. The 24-year-old Cawthorn defeated Lynda Bennett, 62, in the district’s Republican primary on Tuesday to fill a seat vacated by Mark Meadows. He …

They’re firing the American workers for foreign replacements. One of the major public utilities in the United States is firing hundreds of employees and replacing its IT workforce with contractors affiliated with some of the most egregious abusers of the H1B visa system. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which was founded in 1933 during the Great …

Efforts by a wine and liquor megastore known for its cut-rate prices to open in College Point, Queens, have been thwarted yet again. On Wednesday, the New York State Liquor Authority denied Total Wine & More’s August 2019 application to open a store in Queens after local competitors and dozens of elected officials — including …

There’s never been a better time to read up.  Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a part of the New York Public Library system, has just released its Black Liberation Reading List to mark its 95th anniversary and to respond to the global protests in support of Black Lives Matter.   The list is …

The coronavirus is bringing even more pain to the nation’s hobbled airlines as American Airlines informed its New York-based flight crews they will be grounded for at least another month as the carrier slashes its June schedule. “We’re announcing the difficult decision to extend temporary pause done by LGA-based [LaGuardia Airport] flight attendants. While we …

Time is ticking — but fans aren’t sure toward what. Diehard fans of the “Twilight” saga discovered a trail of mysterious clues on the social media accounts and website of series author Stephenie Meyer this week. The homepage of the 46-year-old writer’s website has been set to feature a clock counting down until Monday. The …

A global pandemic isn’t keeping the Mountain from “Game of Thrones” from being, well, the Mountain. Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, a k a Thor, the 6-foot-9, 425-pound actor who played Cersei Lannister’s undead henchman in the final five seasons of the HBO hit, is attempting to break the 500-kg deadlift record from ReykjavÍk, Iceland, as part of the World’s …

LOS ANGELES  — Hollywood studios are shuffling more release dates as a result of the coronavirus, including sequels to “Doctor Strange,” “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and “Into the Spider-Verse.” Late Friday, both Sony Pictures and The Walt Disney Co. announced updated theatrical release schedules that significantly delay some of their marquee superhero films. Marvel’s “Doctor …