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The last time President Donald Trump publicly doled out a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the ceremony ended abruptly. On December 7, Dan Gable, the legendary college wrestler and storied coach dutifully had a medal draped over his neck while Trump rambled on about the acronym “G.O.A.T” and ribbed the Olympic gold medal-winning grappler by asking if he might be able to beat him in a match. Once the assembled press began asking about President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration... Читать дальше...

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The FBI has warned local officials of potential violence from the “Boogaloo Boys” and other far-right groups at all 50 state capitols over the next week and a half.

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Fox News on Monday morning announced a massive overhaul of its daytime and early primetime weekday lineup, with several anchors facing ostensible demotions—losing their solo hosting duties or moving to a less-viewed time slot—amid ratings struggles following the 2020 election.

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New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman has tested positive for COVID-19—and she believes she was infected while isolating during the Capitol riots with other lawmakers who refused to wear masks.

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Diehard fans know that there’s a Sex and the City quote for everything. For instance: When HBO Max announced its SATC reboot, And Just Like That..., would debut without Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones, I couldn’t help but wonder why they would ever attempt such a foolhardy plan. But then I remembered a quote from the sex-positive sage herself. “Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls,” Samantha once told her friends. “Because they can.”

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The former Ukrainian diplomat at the center of outlandish Republican claims that Kyiv not Moscow had intervened in the 2016 presidential race has been formally sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Five days after the violent insurrection by President Donald Trump’s supporters at the U.S. Capitol, there was no bigger story on Fox & Friends than the tech giants’ decisions to de-platform Parler, one of the primary apps used to organize the MAGA mob.

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President Donald Trump has long insisted that he is being singled out by social media giants while others have exhibited similar behavior. Now he has a dubious ally in the fight against the tech bosses after a slew of Facebook pages linked to the Ugandan government were shuttered ahead of a key presidential election on Thursday, which officials say could change the course of history in that country.

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Last week, five people died as rioters incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol seeking lawmakers to lynch. But first lady Melania Trump has identified the worst thing about the entire horrific spectacle—people saying mean things about her online.

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Meagan Good is keenly aware of the way people perceive her. In the early Aughts, after appearing as the love interest in the music video for 50 Cent’s “21 Questions,” she says she was branded “the sexy girl,” and placed in a number of “hip-hop” films like You Got Served, Waist Deep, and Stomp the Yard. However, since partnering with film producer/pastor DeVon Franklin and co-writing the 2016 bestseller The Wait, about their Christian faith and celibacy before marriage, she feels the public has cast her in a new role. Читать дальше...

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I’ll start by saying I never identified as a henley person. Some people are, but I was firmly not. I used to wonder what they even were—some sort of crazed blend between a polo, a long sleeve, and a pajama top—and when they were meant to be worn(when skiing, maybe?) But then, my favorite T-shirt brand sent me a henley to test out. At first, it just sat in my closet. But once I put it on for the very first time, I realized, they actually are a crazy blend between a polo... Читать дальше...

Wild Turkey

The biggest difference between Scotch and bourbon isn’t where they’re made, what they’re made from or even the use of peat smoke.

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As a forensic anthropologist working in Texas, I work with the nameless dead—the unidentified human remains that are the consequences of our failed immigration policy. In 1994, the Clinton administration passed immigration reform titled “Prevention Through Deterrence,” or PTD, that used checkpoints and other military tactics to funnel migrants into the harshest, most remote portions of the border. The creators of PTD knew there would be high mortality and postulated that the deaths would deter future migrants from unauthorized entry. Читать дальше...

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DALLAS—Shelby Hudson just wanted a test. In early December, Hudson, who is incarcerated in Dallas County Jail, realized she couldn’t smell or taste. She had a headache, too, and her bunkmate told her she felt like Hudson was “burning up.”

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After a feverish couple of hours on Jan. 6, during which fascists on social network platforms dared to utter the word “revolution,” they came crashing down to reality—hopes ruined and friendless in the world after the deadly but ultimately fruitless attack on the U.S. Capitol. Now, with far-right groups feeling backed into a corner by the impending end of Trump’s presidency, divisions among them are becoming more palpable as a feeling of failure grows and extremists nihilistically... Читать дальше...

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Neil Gaiman is less than perfectly satisfied with the first two seasons of American Gods, the Starz adaptation of his beloved 2001 road-trip novel. He praises the hyper-stylized visual language original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green created in its debut season (the only one Fuller and Green helmed before departing the series). And he is effusive about the show’s “fabulous” cast, led by Ian McShane as Norse god-in-disguise Mr. Wednesday and Ricky Whittle as Shadow... Читать дальше...

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ROME—When police raided a warehouse in Andalusia, Spain, last week, they found more than the illicit gun running enterprise they knew they'd cracked. They also found a Third Reich shrine, complete with male and female mannequins dressed up in pristine Nazi uniforms, portraits of Adolf Hitler on the walls, and rare emblems and medals from the Nazi era.

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When hackers dumped a dossier of top Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy’s emails in 2018, he accused Qatar of sending in the cybercrooks. But the perpetrators have never been officially identified and according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast, prosecutors dropped a criminal investigation into the break-in back in 2018 after a two-month inquiry.

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When Emperor Hirohito took to the radio in August 1945 to inform his subjects of their nation’s surrender, it was shocking to them in more ways than one. It was the first time the Japanese people had ever heard the God-Emperor’s mortal voice. We’re not quite at that point, but here we sit, not subjects of an emperor but citizens in a democracy, and for three or four days running we have no idea what our employee the president is thinking or doing. I mean, we have a pretty good guess; he’s fuming. Читать дальше...

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When the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, I was sitting in my Brooklyn apartment in my pajamas, following live Twitter feeds. At some point I started getting messages that someone was accusing me of being a prominent QAnon activist who’d been photographed at the riot. As someone who’s written about the far right for years and had been the subject of their conspiracy theories before, I shrugged it off.

Rebecca Tulis

Who doesn't like a little music with their crossword? At 32-Across on Wednesday we had the clue [1978 song with the line "There's no need to be unhappy"] for a four-letter answer, which turned out to be YMCA. Cluing a song title with a line from it is especially fun, since often the solver will think "I know this...but what song is it?" Just seeing the lyric on the page, and then having to put the music to it seems to jog the brain in a new way.

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In late December, Young Sheldon, the Warner Bros. Television sitcom about a 9-year-old science genius, reported 11 positive cases of COVID-19 on set. Another WB production, Lucifer, in which a devil ditches hell for Los Angeles, reported 13. Eleven more cases came from The Kominsky Method, a Michael Douglas-starring Netflix series where aging actors confront mortality. Around the same time, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 database... Читать дальше...

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Two men photographed in the Senate chamber holding zip ties have now been charged in connection with Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice announced Sunday.