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The woman shot dead as a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has been identified by her family as an Air Force vet who was an outspoken supporter of Trump.

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With thousands of pro-Trump protesters overwhelming police at the U.S. Capitol and breaching the highly secure building, several Fox News hosts and reporters initially went out of their way to describe the MAGA mob storming the chambers of Congress as “peaceful.”

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has made a rare confession at the first congress of his ruling Workers’ Party since 2016. He admitted to his adoring acolytes that his vaunted five-year economic plan is a bust.

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Offering an olive branch to Republicans, President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Merrick Garland, the centrist federal judge whom Republicans thwarted as Barack Obama’s 2016 Supreme Court pick, for attorney general.

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After four years of tolerating President Donald Trump’s boundless propensity for conspiracy and recklessness toward government institutions, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell drew the line at the very moment Trump’s power seems most on the wane.

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As a New York City resident now hunkered down for the winter, I frequently look back on the outdoor dining explosion over the summer. The sun was warm and my legs were bare, but those feel like distant memories now. The sun sets at 4 p.m. and leaving my ankles bare makes me shiver just thinking about it. But there are those who dare to dine outdoors, no matter the weather, and for that, there’s nothing better than a Rumpl blanket.

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Whipped up by President Donald Trump, a MAGA mob violently broke into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, taking over hallways and offices and forcing Congress to evacuate in an extraordinary disruption of the peaceful transfer of power marked by gunfire, broken windows, clashes with police, and at least one death.

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Shortly before Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump whipped up a crowd of protesters in D.C., vowing to demolish any Republican who opposes him and pinning all hopes of overturning the election on a vice president who has no political power to do anything.

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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Wednesday lamented the Republican Party’s last-ditch effort to overturn President Donald Trump’s decisive election loss, noting that Americans “have never seen” anything like this before and that it is “kind of sad.”

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What happened on Tuesday night wasn’t supposed to happen.

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Danish public television just introduced a new animated show about a man called John Dillermand and his unfeasibly long penis.

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Hordes of Trump supporters rallied across Washington on Wednesday morning in a doomed effort to somehow negate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, hours before Congress was set to certify the results and make Biden’s win even more fully irreversible.

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The first sign that something was amiss to the masonry worker doing repairs on the ancient Mount St. Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, England, on Monday were the two femur bones bound with rusting wire protruding from the brickwork.

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Can we call it a repudiation now? Because Donald Trump flew into Georgia Monday night to perform what he surely thought was his final rescue mission. Instead, if anything, his shocking antics in these last few days drove the turnout against him.

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President Donald Trump promised that Wednesday’s planned MAGA protests in Washington, D.C. would be “wild”—and his prediction has already come true, with his supporters acting like zoo animals as they set off on their pilgrimage to the asshole jamboree in the capital.

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Los Angeles is a city built on contradictions. While it’s famous for its international stars, miles of beaches and devotion to over-the-top opulence, it also boasts an equally impressive network of gritty dive bars.

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After four years of watching Mitch McConnell’s Senate rubber-stamp a parade of mostly white, mostly male, mostly corporate lawyers for lifetime seats on federal courts, the incoming Biden-Harris administration is racing to fill federal judgeships and to diversify the bench to include public defenders, civil rights lawyers and labor attorneys.

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One of the leading congressional voices against U.S. aid to the Saudi-led war in Yemen said that the incoming Biden administration will make ending the grueling conflict an early foreign policy priority.

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William Menech believes he has discovered a cure for COVID-19. It’s a fairly simple mixture of three herbs he learned about while studying Amazonian plant medicine and shamanism over the last two decades. “Some of them are available right off the shelf at health food stores” across the world, he told The Daily Beast. “Everybody treated with these three plants, within one day, their symptoms are gone. Their smell and taste come back. And they’re cured within... Читать дальше...

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Mike Pence wants our sympathy for the situation he finds himself in as he presides over the final step in certifying the election Joe Biden indisputably won. If he does as Donald Trump wants and rejects the Electoral College vote, he would destroy democracy in the United States and throw the country into chaos not seen since the Civil War.

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Tommy John Jr., the famed baseball player and elbow surgery pioneer, has contracted COVID-19. But even as he receives oxygen while battling a case of the deadly disease, the Hall of Fame candidate and his chiropractor son are spouting anti-vaxxer views.

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Kevin: I had to type something in my email search window today that I thought I would never type: “Marlow + sex.”

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ATLANTA—The state of Georgia has elected its first Black U.S. senator: on Tuesday, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in one of the state’s two runoff elections.

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ATLANTA—The battle for the U.S. Senate that won’t end is dragging out just a little longer: as of early Wednesday morning, no winners have been projected in Georgia’s pair of runoff races, leaving control of the Senate up in the air as election officials continue to count votes.