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Kathleen Culliton

Kathleen Culliton is Raw Story's managing editor. She's been covering local and national news for more than a decade for outlets that include the New York Post, Al Jazeera, DNAinfo New York, Bustle, the New York Daily News, WNYC, NY1, City Limits and the New York City Patch. Kathleen is a proud alumna of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. 

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Famed stylist fawned over despite claims he groomed Epstein survivors like 'dolls'
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Famed stylist fawned over despite claims he groomed Epstein survivors like 'dolls'

On a floor above one of the world’s most famous hotel lobbies — where the elite of fashion and finance are annually styled for the Met Gala’s red carpet — there's a salon run by a man Jeffrey Epstein's survivors accused of grooming them.

The Mark on New York City's ultra-exclusive Madison Avenue — just six blocks from the mansion Jeffrey Epstein called home — has hosted many of the world's top A-listers.

It also hosts the man Epstein’s house manager, during a deposition to survivor Virginia Giuffre’s attorneys in 2009, listed among famous frequenters of the disgraced financier’s Palm Beach estate....

‘Appalling’: Horror as feds got warrants to hunt Don Lemon’s producer with fake cell towers

‘Appalling’: Horror as feds got warrants to hunt Don Lemon’s producer with fake cell towers

Federal investigators have horrified civil liberties experts by obtaining previously unreported warrants to use controversial surveillance tech on a college student, according to a new report.

Law enforcement agents earlier this year obtained permission to use cell-site simulators to track down Jerome Richardson, a 21-year-old who helped journalist Don Lemon document an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota earlier this year, Wired reported Monday.

Privacy experts were stunned....

Musk's ex comes out swinging at GOP as bombshell doc hits: 'Trailer trash'
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Musk's ex comes out swinging at GOP as bombshell doc hits: 'Trailer trash'

The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children came out swinging at Donald Trump’s Cabinet Thursday.

Ashley St. Clair skewered Trump's Defense Secretary's latest announcement, along with the actions of the rest of his administration, during a question-and-answer session after one of the first screenings of a new, highly critical documentary about the world's richest man that's simply titled “Musk.”

“Absurd and ridiculous,” St. Clair declared. “It’s trailer park behavior, honestly.”...

'MAGA morons' and 'insanity': Retiring GOP senator unleashes ruthless Trump onslaught
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'MAGA morons' and 'insanity': Retiring GOP senator unleashes ruthless Trump onslaught

A Republican senator on the outs has dedicated an entire book to criticizing the "MAGA morons" surrounding President Donald Trump, whom he predicts will trigger an election day disaster for the GOP that will last for years, a quietly released excerpt reveals.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) does not pull his punches as he dishes dirt and hurls endless insults at MAGA luminaries in his soon-to-be released tell-all — "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents" — detailing the many "what the f--- moments" he's experienced during Trump's second term.

"They can go to hell," Tillis writes of the top Trumpworld cheerleaders. "They are the reason I want to warn my fellow Republicans of the impending disasters ahead for them in 2026 and 2028 and beyond...When that disaster comes — which, as of this writing, I think it will — prepare for the kind of insanity that makes everything we’re living through now look positively sunny by comparison."...

Trump's biggest 'cheerleader'​ raging over broken promise — and set to strike him down: Religion expert
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Trump's biggest 'cheerleader'​ raging over broken promise — and set to strike him down: Religion expert

Evangelical voters who once worshiped President Donald Trump are quietly abandoning the conservative party, a religious expert with close ties to the White House told Raw Story.

Professor J. Derrick Lemons — author of the upcoming book “Trump and the Politics of Prayer: Inside the Spiritual World of His Faith Advisory Team” — told Raw Story that the religious community cannot forgive their president.

“It's not like the cheerleader years of yesteryear,” said the University of Georgia’s Religion department head. “The midterms are not looking good.”...