Новости за 05.01.2021

Jessica McGowan

A new political group backing Georgia Sen. David Perdue’s reelection bid pitches itself as a centrist outfit interested in maintaining a divided government. But behind the scenes, the group is working with a former top Trump White House lawyer and consultants for a fringey right-wing congresswoman’s super PAC, which is now backing Perdue with warnings of “socialism.”

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Rowan Atkinson, the British comedian, actor, and writer known for sitcoms including Mr. Bean and Blackadder, is apparently not a fan of “cancel culture.”

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Now in one of the nation's worst coronavirus hotspots, California residents hoped for a speedy vaccine rollout. But less than a month in, hospitals have only administered 35 percent of the 1.3 million doses that have arrived in the state.

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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) on Monday was repeatedly confronted by CNN anchor Jim Sciutto to prove his outlandish boasts that he possesses a “preponderance of evidence” that multiple states committed election fraud.

It took no time at all for Meghan McCain to start warring with Joy Behar when she returned from maternity leave this week. But things really got ugly on Tuesday when McCain tried to joke around about how much her co-host “missed” her and Behar wasn’t having any of it.

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Can one have too many pairs of leggings? I think not. Leggings satisfy a lot of things that other pants can’t, especially while working from home. They can act as the bridge between work clothing and loungewear, or as layers under your clothing in the cold, or even as a perfect workout companion. After trying ADAY’s new Layered Up Legging, I can say that these do all of those things and more.

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Fox News anchor Sandra Smith on Tuesday openly criticized Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger for releasing the recording of President Donald Trump asking him to “find” votes to flip Georgia, telling the Republican state official he may have placed the U.S. in “jeopardy” by exposing the call.

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Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s husband is renting out an airport hangar to the U.S. Marshals Service for what appears to be a domestic surveillance operation—at a very nice profit—in a deal shrouded in secrecy.

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EDINBURGH—Scotland has long prided itself on the warm welcome it gives to visitors, but that’s before a pandemic erupted around the world, and it’s never included President Donald Trump anyway.

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Nicolas Cage can make anything cool, and that certainly applies to cursing, as confirmed by Netflix’s History of Swear Words (debuting Jan. 5), in which the Oscar-winning superstar plays host to an inquiry into our most beloved profane utterances. Cage’s participation is the highlight of executive producers Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner’s comedic look at taboo English-language terms, lending it just the right amount of educational seriousness and tongue-in-cheek humor. Charismatically... Читать дальше...

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Since losing the presidential election, Donald Trump has pinned the blame on cities with large Black populations, such as Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Specifically, Trump has connected these cities with corruption, claiming for example that “Detroit and Philadelphia are two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country—easily.” It is widely agreed that these cities are not responsible for Trump’s electoral loss. Trump’s strategy of connecting... Читать дальше...

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As always, the coronavirus is more complicated than we thought. This time, that might be good news.

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Things were already sub-ideal for the president and his Republican Party in the Peach State.

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Adult actress Aria Lee has decided to act as her own attorney in a $10 million lawsuit filed against her by the porn director Craven Moorehead. In a court filing from Dec. 18, first reported by Page Six, the 20-year-old Lee wrote that she’d represent “in pro per”—the legal term meaning “for oneself.”

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GRAYSON, Georgia—When Muriel MacDonald walked through a subdivision in this Atlanta suburb on Monday evening, she was a familiar sight to residents—yet another person showing up on their doorsteps to remind them to vote in the Senate runoff election.

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When director Jason Woliner first received the encrypted script for a new, top-secret movie Sacha Baron Cohen was working on, the word “Borat” was nowhere to be found.

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Even in the bizarre world of QAnon conspiracy theorists, self-proclaimed deep state whistleblower Ryan Dark White has some crazy ideas.

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PARIS–More than a week after France’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign was launched, only a few thousand people in the entire country have received their first injection, with President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccination strategy widely criticized for being flawed, too slow, and pandering to anti-vaxxers.

In his first Late Show monologue of the new year, Stephen Colbert went all-in on President Donald Trump’s not so “perfect” phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) ominously warned during a Fox News appearance on Monday night that the United States is in a “cold civil war” that will shift to a “full-scale hot conflict” if the Democrats sweep Tuesday’s Georgia runoff races and take control of the Senate.

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At his rally on the eve of the Georgia runoff election, President Donald Trump took out his frustration on his now familiar comfort piñatas—Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the U.S. Supreme Court, and RINOs of all stripes—as he struggles to cope with his loss in the 2020 election.

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Maybe it’s the months of quarantine, or maybe it’s the fact that Matt James is, if we’re being honest, the first genuinely swoon-worthy Bachelor we’ve had in years—but whatever the reason, this season of the dating franchise is already off to a very promising (and sexually-charged) start.

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For the last five years, I’ve been criticizing Donald Trump from the perspective of a NeverTrump conservative. Long before he came down that escalator, he struck me as not just a bad leader, but also a bad person—one determined to drag his party, and his country, down with him. He showed it again in Georgia on Monday night, campaigning not so much for Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue as he was for himself, as though voters hadn’t already rendered their verdict on his own campaign.

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier pressed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday night over the conservative lawmaker’s ploy to object to the presidential election results in Congress this week, directly asking him if he has a responsibility to tell his constituents that Joe Biden will still become president later this month.

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Victims of Jeffrey Epstein continue to come forward in new lawsuits against his $400-million estate, including one woman who says the creepy financier lured her into his sex ring after interviewing her for a job on Skype.