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1
Trump Team Scheming to Devalue Dollar if He Wins: Report
DOLLAR DOWN
It’s an aggressive move designed to reduce the trade deficit—but risks losing the dollar’s coveted status as world reserve currency.
2
Alarms Went Off on Ship Hours Before Bridge Crash: Report
WARNING SIGNS
The Dali had not even left port when the alarms were triggered.

4
Johnny Depp Eyes Historic $4M Italian Castle: Report
A MAN’S HOME…
The mayor of the tiny town the castle overlooks said that he wasn’t sure if a celebrity buying it “would be the right ‘economic synergy’ for the community.”
5
GOP Event Cut Off Rob Schenider’s Bad Stand-Up: Report
COMEDY BITES
The Adam Sandler-adjacent comedian was booted offstage ten minutes into a set that was reportedly so “gross and vulgar” that it prompted a junior senator to walk out.

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Christopher Buckley on Scoop

Hilarious

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:13PM EDT / Published Feb. 02, 2009 7:01AM EST

Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop, to which this website owes its very name, The Daily Beast, remains even after all these years the classic satire of the media. In a hilarious case of mistaken identity, William Boot, a feckless nature columnist for the aforementioned newspaper, is dispatched to the African country of Ishmaelia to cover a rebellion there.Waugh’s funniest book, which is to say: as funny as it gets.