may also explain why Washington is so often out to lunch on the direction of American politics. One Republican–we’ll call him “Candidate A”–has among the highest support levels for President George W. Bush’s conservative agenda in the Senate. He championed the president’s 2001 tax cut, which many Republicans believe is the litmus test of today’s GOP. After initially voting to give Bush the authority to go to war, he became an early and outspoken critic of the Iraq policy, a view now endorsed not just by the American public and Democrats but by Republicans as well....

Those ideals include a commitment to gun control, backing the American Civil Liberties Union and a fierce advocacy of environmental issues. While backing same, he encounters Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening), an environmental lobbyist. Get that name: masculine steel, feminine velvet, the whole package. Andy falls,but he doesn’t skulk around the White House, using the Secret Service as pimps with beepers. He’s right out front, dropping in to buy roses from an astonished florist, dancing with Syd at an astonished state dinner, driving his own astonished car on a date....

The elected, two-year office pays no salary, although it does lead to one of the highest profiles (and supply of headaches) in Hollywood. Former SAG presidents include Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Charlton Heston and Ed Asner. Current president William Daniels just announced he won’t seek re-election, after serving one rather tumultuous term. Not only did the 98,000-member union endure a six-month commercials strike under Daniels’s watch, it narrowly averted a potentially devastating strike with producers earlier this month....

Conservatives had to settle for a budget amendment that could mean Congress will use tax hikes, along with budget cuts, to balance the books. It should squeak by in the Senate. The House’s line-item veto, though, faces serious resistance from Republican senators who fear ceding too much power to the president. This one got sticky. Gingrich may have blown his political advantage by splitting the big anti-crime measure into six highly technical mini-bills to get it passed....

Cabin in the Woods In nearly a century of horror movies, there has been nothing else quite like Cabin in the Woods. Co-written and produced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer boss Joss Whedon, the movie seems to be a hot teens butchered in the woods story like The Evil Dead at first…until it is (no spoilers here) nothing like that at all. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Climax This one’s not for the seasick....

The fundraiser aims to offer financial support to the Hutchins’ family following the 42-year-old mother of one’s death. It raised more than $120,000 within 24 hours of its launch on Saturday, with a further $80,000 added on Sunday, making the running total 20-fold its original target of $10,000. It passed the $200,000 mark shortly after 3 a.m. ET on Monday. “Local 600 mourns the passing of Halyna Hutchins, a Director of Photography who died from injuries sustained on the set of Rust in New Mexico, on Thursday, October 21,” the fundraisers’ creators wrote....

On Saturday, Hampton Inn & Suites McAllen posted a statement to its Facebook page, which read that “all single immigrant minors and their chaperones” had since “departed the hotel.” The hotel said it made the decision to cancel its booking with a private contractor for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency after it discovered the true “nature” of the “government business we had booked.” “Over the past several days, we have been made fully aware of the nature of certain government business we had booked without realizing that rooms would be used to house immigrant minors,” the hotel said....

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But it’s probably too much to hope for. The Bobbitt case, bringing to lurid life what law professor and author Susan Estrich (“Real Rape”) called “every man’s worst nightmare and many women’s occasional fantasy.” has transcended its origins as a commonplace marital brawl and entered the mythic realm where Joey and Amy romp forever on the hot sheets of their Long Island love nest. Their heroic exploits (John had sex with his wife every day!...

Hardy will be the most appealing defensive end on the free-agent market. He will get to the market, because after he played only one game for the Panthers in 2014 — franchise tagged at $13.1 million guaranteed — he has priced himself out of Carolina. The other two names who pop up as top 4-3 edge rushers on the market are the Giants’ Jason Pierre-Paul and the Bills’ Jerry Hughes....

Last season was supposed to be one where Hariss gets to taste Spanish football for the first time in his career but it wasn’t meant to be. The loan move to CE L’Hospitalet didn’t quite materialised and the 27-year-old ended up spending 2017 with Home United. For the 2018 season, the midfielder is back in the Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) squad following the increase of import slot with the ASEAN quota being added to the Malaysian domestic season....

King Charles III and other royals will meet leaders from around the world at a Buckingham Palace reception on Sunday, September 18. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were initially invited only to later be told the function was for working members of the royal family only. A report from British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph published on Friday has claimed that the confusion hints at a lack of communication between Buckingham Palace and the Sussexes California-based operations hub....

Courtois wins Golden Glove award Kane, 23, overtook Everton’s Romelu Lukaku in the final week of the campaign thanks to a spectacular four-strike haul against Leicester in midweek and became the first player since Manchester United attacker Robin van Persie in 2012-13 to retain the prize. The Tottenham attacker’s form has been particularly deadly since the turn of the year, as he has scored 21 times in just 17 appearances, including four hat-tricks....

While speaking at the Venice International Film Festival’s press conference for Don’t Worry Darling on Monday, September 5, the One Direction alum, 28, said the best thing about the movie he’s in is that it’s a movie. “You know, my favorite thing about the movie is, like, it feels like a movie,” he told reporters. “It feels like a real, like, you know, go-to-the-theater-film movie.” “It’s fun to play in worlds that aren’t necessary your own,” he added....

Harvick’s team had to repair the radiator and rear fender on his car as he finished 43 laps down in 33rd. Having been one of the dominant drivers all season, Harvick is now eighth in points, 33 behind leader Jeff Gordon and 28 points behind Kenseth, who is fourth and in the current transfer spot to the championship round at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “He won’t win this championship,” Harvick said about Kenseth....

So while he has had fast cars, his weekly finishes have certainly not been up to what he expected when he went there from Richard Childress Racing after last season. But now with two wins thanks to his victory Saturday night in the Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, he knows his team has the ability to be a weekly threat in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Working with a crew assembled in the offseason by Rodney Childers, Harvick and Childers believe the group has persevered just by putting their heads down and doing their jobs....