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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century
By VINCENZO BARNEY
The author fell in love with a 16-year-old girl when he was 42. She went on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history. Augusta Britt breaks her silence to VF.
The Pete Hegseth Scandal Is Rattling Trumpworld: “People Are Upset About the Distraction”
By GABRIEL SHERMAN
GOP sources say there are doubts within the Trump transition as to whether the defense secretary nominee will be able to hang on following revelations of a 2017 sexual assault claim.
The Menendez Brothers’ Bid for Freedom Just Got Complicated
By DEANNA KIZIS
The public’s changing attitudes about abuse have buoyed Erik and Lyle, but the new DA is a question mark.
Michael Cohen, Once the Trump Prosecution’s Star Witness, Now Calls for the President’s Criminal-Case Dismissal
By DAN ADLER
Cohen—a veteran Trump antagonist, if no longer a central one—is now arguing for Trump’s hush money case to be dismissed.
Mel Brooks Has Ego to Spare
By HADLEY HALL MEARES
The comedy legend has plenty to say in his autobiography, but the book is most revealing when it digs into his marriage to Anne Bancroft.
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