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Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Friday threw out a conspiracy theory about the deadly Capitol insurrection that was so insane, fellow conspiracist Steve Bannon had to jump in and pump the brakes.

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One day after drawing a bizarre false equivalence between QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell on The View, Meghan McCain tried out another failed analogy—this time on Twitter.

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MSNBC anchor Brian Williams drolly roasted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday night over his recent trip to “kiss the ring” of former President Donald Trump, playing “exclusive” footage of their Mar-a-Lago meeting.

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Two Montana brothers accused of being among the first 10 people to storm the U.S. Capitol—before chasing a lone Black cop through the building and wreaking havoc inside the Senate chamber—have been charged.

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By Angela Hart, California Healthline

Joyce Hanson was thrilled when she heard Gov. Gavin Newsom announce Jan. 13 that Californians age 65 and older would be eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Infections and hospitalizations had been surging in California, and Hanson knew a simple trip to the grocery store put her at greater risk of getting sick and dying. Plus, she hadn’t seen her daughter in more than a year, so she immediately began making plans to visit her in the San Francisco Bay Area. Читать дальше...

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Whether it’s harassing the survivor of a school shooting for the benefit of a cameraman or accusing the Rothschild family of building a satellite-mounted laser that nearly burned down California, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has made it clear that she will do almost anything for attention.

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He’s supposed to be a leader—the leader, in fact, of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. But he ain’t doing much leading.

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Interviewing Derek DelGaudio is kind of like watching his new film In & Of Itself. You start out a little apprehensive, unsure of exactly what you’re getting yourself into. But as it goes along, you repeatedly feel yourself getting blown away by his overwhelming skill as both storyteller and performer. By the end you are emotionally flattened. There might even be tears welling up in your eyes.

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On Jan. 6, insurrectionists attacked the U.S. Capitol and brought into sharp focus a threat those of us who have been monitoring right-wing extremists have understood for years. Some of the people who either attended the siege of the Capitol—or played cheerleader for it to their thousands of followers on social media—were the exact same dangerous extremists who harass and threaten patients and doctors daily at reproductive health centers, including... Читать дальше...

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The Democratic Party has a problem on its hands. If Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema and perhaps other senators really won’t relent on nixing the filibuster, the party risks being seen as a do-nothing party likely to lose their congressional majorities in 2022 and maybe the White House in 2024.

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U.S. officials are weighing whether to implement sanctions against Russian individuals and groups connected to the poisoning and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to three individuals familiar with the matter.

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Have you heard of the latest trend? According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, wearing two masks is likely better than wearing just one. He recently said, “it makes common sense” that wearing more than one mask would be more effective. A mask “is a physical covering to prevent droplets,” Fauci said on NBC’s TODAY, “So, if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.”

So... Читать дальше...

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“Nothing succeeds like success.” “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” And “nobody knows you when you’re down and out” (according to Eric Clapton, at least). And yet, the GOP appears to be immune to these sort of commonsensical clichés. Donald Trump is now the definition of a loser: a one-term president who lost both the House and the Senate. But instead of being chastened by him, Republicans are chasing him.

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A new strain of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in South Africa has been detected in the United States for the first time.

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The ghost of Seven lives on with The Little Things, as does Denzel Washington’s search for the type of great serial killer thriller he missed out on when he turned down the lead role in David Fincher’s 1995 genre classic. John Lee Hancock’s film (premiering Jan. 29 in theaters, as well as on HBO Max for its first month) is deeply indebted in both style and plot particulars to that predecessor, although unfortunately for it—and its headliner—its modest suspense is largely offset by... Читать дальше...

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He’s written a book about “God’s Plan” inspired by Donald Trump and donated thousands to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign and a political action committee that supports her. But now one of the conspiracy-loving Georgia Republican’s big-dollar donors is turning his back on her.

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Over the last weeks, something fantastic has been happening in the stock market: small-time investors are screwing with hedge funds using the market-manipulation techniques that those funds use all the time. And as GameStop and AMC shares ballooned in price for no reason other than the fact that a bunch of Reddit users with trading apps wanted them to, average Americans reading about this news have paused to think, by the millions: Wait a minute. The stock market is nonsense. Читать дальше...

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For the past year, Robin Wright has been parked in front of a computer monitor piecing together her feature directorial debut. And on Sunday evening, Land will be unveiled at the virtual Sundance Film Festival (prior to its theatrical bow on Feb. 12).

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In the days before the Nov. 3 election, the far-right paramilitary group the Oath Keepers sent out an email warning: “No matter who wins, chaos is sure to follow.” Therefore, the missive said, die-hards should stock up on weapons and ammo at a cop-connected gun shop in Montana, which was offering a discount to members of the increasingly notorious militia group.

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On Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel moved away from his favorite target, the coup-complicit congressman Ted Cruz, and toward the Q-complicit Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia who subscribes to QAnon—a baseless, batshit-insane conspiracy theory positing that Donald Trump is a messianic figure battling a cabal of sex-trafficker pedophiles comprised of some of the biggest names in Hollywood and the Democratic Party (this despite the fact that Trump palled around with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein). Читать дальше...

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MSNBC host Chris Hayes repeatedly pressed recently fired Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt on Thursday night over his former network’s peddling of misinformation, even raising his eyebrow when Stirewalt seemed to defend Fox at one point.

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The White House COVID-19 task force has asked the Centers for Disease Control to conduct a comprehensive study on how many Americans have died since receiving the vaccine and the circumstances that led to their death, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

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Cicely Tyson’s legacy in art and entertainment is one that feels infinite—as if she’s always been there and always will be. An almost-divine figure for generations of fans, peers and disciples, Tyson, who died on Jan. 28 at the age of 96, married brilliant dramatic performances to an empowered sensibility. She was committed to roles that she felt uplifted Black womanhood in some way, and though it sometimes led to periods of inactivity, it sustained a body of work as significant as it is gripping. Читать дальше...