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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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GOP loses grip on 7 scandal-hit Senate races that now stand between Trump and impeachment
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GOP loses grip on 7 scandal-hit Senate races that now stand between Trump and impeachment

The stakes couldn’t be higher.

The U.S. is ensnared in an escalating war with Iran, inflation is crushing America's poorest citizens, masked immigration agents are "vanishing" tens of thousands and, in their effort to do so, have taken American lives.

Democrats are laying the groundwork to impeach President Donald Trump — but if they're going to convict him in 2027, they've got to at least win back the Senate on Nov. 3. ...

Markwayne Mullin's wife brags of private planes — as husband battles jet-setting scandal
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Markwayne Mullin's wife brags of private planes — as husband battles jet-setting scandal

The wife of Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin is suing the Daily Mail for having the audacity to suggest, among other things, that she might fly commercial.

Christie Mullin filed a federal complaint last week against the British tabloid over its May report that Mullin tried to put his wife on the DHS payroll — in part because he wanted her to get access to taxpayer-funded private jets.

Christie Mullin argued that was ridiculous — because she and her husband own their own planes....

Barbaric Hegseth vow flagged as sign of Trump's reign collapsing: 'Reeks of desperation'
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Barbaric Hegseth vow flagged as sign of Trump's reign collapsing: 'Reeks of desperation'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bombshell firing-squad plan is set to backfire — and leave President Donald Trump shot in the foot, political experts contend.

Hegseth's stunning revelation that he intends to live-stream the execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan represents a "huge gamble" — in a game neither he nor Trump knows how to play, constitutional law professor Beau Baumann told Raw Story.

"The whole thing reeks of desperation," Baumann said. "Hegseth and Trump, they're really bad at politics." ...

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....