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DONALD Trump and Prince Andrew are pictured posing with Ghislaine Maxwell in photos taken at Heidi Klum's hookers and pimps-themed Halloween party in 2000. The president this week claimed not to know the prince, currently under scrutiny over his friendship with Maxwell and late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, despite having been seen with him many times over a period of years.

Orinda, Calif. — Four were dead and others wounded when gunfire erupted at a large Halloween night party outside an Orinda home late Thursday night, according to authorities, CBS San Francisco reported. Orinda police confirmed early Friday that four had died in the shooting outside a large home on a quiet street nestled in the Orinda Hills. An earlier tweet by the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office public information officer indicated that multiple people were shot in the incident. The shooting was first reported at 10:45 p.m. The CHP and other agencies were reportedly called to the scene due the the...

America Prepares to Get Angry at Jon StewartBy Elspeth Reeve | October 26, 2010 11:38am Jon Stewart has begun his tour of the nation's capital with a taping of The Daily Show before a "very, very policy-oriented" audience in Washington, The Washington Post's Dan Zak reports. ("We're not used to people nodding, like, 'Oh, I worked on that bill,' " Stewart said.) Stewart and Stephen Colbert's many young fans are packing their bags and arranging for sofas to crash on as they ready to head into D.C. for the comedians' pro-satire Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. But not everyone's...

Do you ever feel like the shallowest people in America are the ones running the show? Now we have proof. Just ask Julie Myers. I have no idea how good or bad a job Julie Myers has done in two years as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security. But her actual performance appears to be a non-issue in the U.S. Senate, where she needs confirmation to stay in the job she received via a 2005 recess appointment by President Bush.