AJ McDougall

Breaking News Reporter

AJ McDougall is a breaking news reporter for The Daily Beast. Before graduating from Columbia University in 2022, she wrote for Vice and E! News, and previously interned at the Beast, Vogue Singapore, and Backstage. She can be reached at amanda.mcdougall@thedailybeast.com.

‘I AM GRATEFUL’

Kim K Praises Prosecutor’s Call to Resentence Menendez Bros

The media personality also commended the media focus on the injustices in the case, “especially on the heels of Ryan Murphy’s TV show.”

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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican opponent former U.S. President Donald Trump are seen in a combination of file photographs taken in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., October 10, 2024 and in Evans, Georgia, U.S., October 4, 2024.

FINAL FLOURISH

Harris Picks a Pointed Location to Give ‘Closing Argument’

The vice president will speak next week at the Ellipse, the Washington, D.C. park where Donald Trump spoke ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

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RASHOMON

L.A. Times Boss Speaks on Lack of Presidential Endorsement

The former editorials editor quit after she said Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper’s billionaire owner, gave the order not to publish an endorsement.

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