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A top Senate Democrat wants answers from the Trump administration about what he calls a suspiciously-timed sanctioning of the man behind the bogus narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, and a promoter of the debunked claims that President-elect Joe Biden acted corruptly to help his son’s business in the country.

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Since leaving Fox News in late 2019, and joining CNBC several months later, Shepard Smith has been incredibly diplomatic when it came to discussing the conservative news network that served as his home for nearly a quarter of a century. But his reluctance to speak out against Fox just ran into a formidable obstacle: Christiane Amanpour.

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Meghan Markle’s father Thomas said he believes his daughter “expressly authorized” or at least “approved” an article in People magazine about him which was “a total lie,” and which portrayed him as “dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted.”

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Alexis Sharkey, the Instagram influencer found naked in the bushes near a Houston road in November, was strangled to death, the medical examiner’s office announced Tuesday.

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A penny stock promotions outfit with ties to erstwhile White House chief strategist Steve Bannon appears to have been behind a flood of text messages “Calling All Patriots” to descend on Washington, D.C, on Jan. 6, when a MAGA mob stormed the Capitol.

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If there’s one thing that’s an absolute necessity while working from home, it’s earbuds. Not only are they great for taking Zoom calls, they’re great for listening to music, podcasts, and workouts, too. Right now, Amazon is discounting their Echo Buds by 30%, so if you’re looking for a new pair, now’s the time.

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A Beverly Hills doctor who’s publicly criticized the coronavirus vaccine and advocated for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against the deadly virus has been arrested in connection with the Capitol riots.

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As leaders come and go, The Beast remains steadfast in our commitment to uncovering the truth.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday openly declared that President Donald Trump and other conservatives who relentlessly peddled bogus election-fraud claim “provoked” the deadly insurrectionist Capitol riots.

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The presidential inauguration of Joe Biden will look like no other in history. The Capitol is on lockdown, and the limited number of attendees face the dual dangers of an ongoing pandemic and potentially violent day-of protests. It’s a day boiling with uncertainty and anxiety, but there is one thing we can rely on to cheer us up: the fashion.

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A New York City court worker was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening to murder several Democratic politicians out of anger over the results of the presidential election.

Mark Makela

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to run the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies anticipates producing a public assessment of the threat from QAnon, she testified at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

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You know when you go to a brand’s site, and suddenly, you realize you want everything? It can be overwhelming, when there are too many good choices. Well, that’s how we feel about Parachute. We’ve tried and tested and loved plenty of their towels, sheets, and more, but to make life a little easier for you, we’re rounding up everything we love from the brand, so it’s all in one place.

Fox News

According to Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt, President Donald Trump’s nearly obsessive binge-watching of cable news is proof of his strong work ethic. “He watches every show,” the Fox host exclaimed about the president.

Jon Cherry

An apparent leader of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, was arrested in Virginia on Tuesday for his alleged role in plotting to attack the Capitol.

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Donald Trump is a war leader who failed. Before he was the leader of a failed insurrection, he was a man who’d stoked the violent and unstable tendencies of his most fanatic supporters into a hot flame that came dangerously close to incinerating the Republic.

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Meghan Markle suffered an “assault” on her private and family life when the Mail on Sunday published a letter she had written to her father, her legal team argued Tuesday.

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Lonna Wells was in the bathroom doing her hair and makeup when she received a call that she won’t soon forget.

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Harry Brant, who found fame as a precocious teenage aesthete with a distinctive androgynous look and was a staple of New York’s elite fashion scene with his elder brother Peter, was found dead on Sunday at age 24. He died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

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How will we bring the Trump supporters who live in an alternate reality back to the real world?

Mina Group

Every time Michael Mina visits his parents inWashington State, he knows he’ll be greeted with a heaping plate of koshary.

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Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula.

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Lithuania is the latest country to announce that it has busted a Russian spy ring on its soil. The allegation that two of its citizens were spying for Russia comes a few weeks after the Dutch authorities rolled up another of the Kremlin’s “substantial espionage networks.” It’s been a tumultuous few months for President Putin’s overseas espionage operation, which keeps getting caught in the act.

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It’s hard to find a silver lining in a raging pandemic that has claimed 2 million lives all over the world while also deepening racial, national, and class fissures and revealing the gross incompetence of many politicians and other leaders.

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Sarah Cooper has some ideas about what Donald Trump’s future might hold after he leaves office. “You don’t want to be too greedy about what could happen to him,” she says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “I don’t think he’ll ever see the inside of a prison cell. If Don Jr. goes to prison, that would be icing on the cake for me. I mean, at least rehab, right?”