Kelly O'Meara Morales

Staff writer

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.

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interviews

Stephen Bannon has reportedly spent 20 hours being interviewed by Robert Mueller

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this is awful

Suspected shooter from Florida high school shooting confesses to killing 17 people

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florida shooting

The suspected Florida shooter was reportedly involved with a white supremacist group

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call your lawyers

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff contemplates charging Stephen Bannon with contempt

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hill fights

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham rips Trump administration for 'poisoning the well' on immigration reform

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this is awful

What we know about suspected Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz

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Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano suggests slingshots could stop AR-15s

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resignations

Embattled South African President Jacob Zuma resigns

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Immigration Reform

Trump asks senators to not support 'Band-Aid' immigration bills

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in search of receipts

A group of Democratic senators want the FBI to disclose all the people in the White House who don't have a full security clearance

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Breaking news

Trump insists he is 'totally opposed to domestic violence'

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the parade

White House budget director predicts Trump's military parade will cost up to $30 million

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big business

AT&T wants to prove that Trump is putting the kibosh on the big Time Warner merger

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morning tussles

CNN's Chris Cuomo grills GOP Rep. Jim Jordan over flailing efforts to discredit FBI

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This just in

Second federal judge blocks Trump's order to end DACA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Standing firm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains defiant with potential indictment looming

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this happened on fox business

Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo grills Paul Ryan about his newfound support for giant deficits

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Who knew what when?

Rob Porter's initial background check was finished all the way back in July, FBI chief testifies

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still better than mark jackson

The coach of the Golden State Warriors let his players coach themselves last night. They won by 46 points.

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that is not good

U.S. airstrikes reportedly killed 'scores' of Russian mercenaries in Syria

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Quotables

Sarah Huckabee Sanders insists Trump 'supports victims of domestic violence' and believes in 'due process'

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life after retirement

Former MLB All-Star arrested after police find more than 40 pounds of 'suspected cocaine' at his house

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builder-in-chief

Trump compares rebuilding U.S. infrastructure to building an ice skating rink in Central Park

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use your words wisely

Jeff Sessions praises sheriffs as a 'critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement'

Barack and Michelle Obama with their official portraits.

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presidential art

People are flipping out over Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits

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social media

Teenagers are abandoning Facebook

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unpaid leave

ISIS leader was reportedly injured in an airstrike last year

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fancy seeing you here

The head of the Zetas cartel was just arrested in one of Mexico City's poshest neighborhoods

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Quotables

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer says Rob Porter scandal may have been a 'he said, she said' issue

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resignations

Democrats just suffered another blow in Minnesota

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In-depth briefing

Trump reportedly isn't even reading his intelligence briefings anymore

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that is not good

California police reportedly protected white nationalists in 2016 clashes with 'anti-racist' demonstrators

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Quotables

White House spokesman Raj Shah says administration 'could have done better dealing with' Rob Porter scandal

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to shut down or not to shut down

Congress set to vote on bipartisan spending package

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the nba is the best

LeBron James' Cavs dismantle entire team in series of stunning last-minute trades

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build that wall

The House Intelligence Committee might have a wall before the border does