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Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on Monday morning needled Fox News Media for canceling Lou Dobbs’ top-rated FBN show last week, claiming Dobbs was dumped merely for supporting Trump and seemingly suggesting the network instead fire its most famous news anchor.

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Sleep has never come easy for me, and by that I mean if tossing and turning could be turned into energy I could power a small village. Due to this as well as just wanting some extra comfort while staring aimlessly at the ceiling I started my search for a weighted blanket.

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Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX), who tested positive for the coronavirus last month, died on Sunday, his family confirmed on Monday morning.

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Startling documents released Monday point to heavy-handed interference by top Trump administration officials last summer to downplay the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, through suppressed testing results and altered guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on reopening businesses and schools.

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Few books have opened with truer words than the latest selection for our Just Booked series (on beautiful coffee table books) than Assouline's Miami Beach. "Miami's time is now," it boldly declares—and boy is that the case.

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Anna Ardin, one of two women whose accusations of sexual abuse against Julian Assange prompted the Wikileaks founder to hide in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for seven years, has written a tell-all book called In the Shadow of Assange: My Testimony.

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This weekend, Queen Elizabeth was accused by Britain’s most republican-minded newspaper, the Guardian, of using an arcane parliamentary procedure to avoid disclosing her shareholdings.

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Ahhh Valentine’s Day. A time for romance. A time for cliché. A time that functions as a convenient excuse to engage differently with your and your partners’ sexualities in ways erroneously not often condoned by our sexually conservative culture. Whether you relate to February 14th with anticipation, dread, or indifference, it’s always fun to have an excuse to dive deeper (and harder) into what feels good.

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Ahhh Valentine’s Day. A time for romance. A time for cliché. A time that functions as a convenient excuse to engage differently with your and your partners’ sexualities in ways erroneously not often condoned by our sexually conservative culture. Whether you relate to February 14th with anticipation, dread, or indifference, it’s always fun to have an excuse to dive deeper (and harder) into what feels good.

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The gospel according to Russ Shorto, big-frog mob guy in the small pond of Johnstown, Pennsylvania: “There’s two different kinds of people. With the first, you throw a handful of shit in a guy’s face and he knows it’s shit. You forget about that guy—you can’t make money off him. But with the other kind, you tell him the shit you’re feeding him is ice cream… and he’ll believe it. You let him think that—you get him to love the taste of it. And then you take every fuckin’... Читать дальше...

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EDINBURGH—Scottish nationalists have never had better odds of achieving their centuries-long dream of securing independence. The Brexit that Scots voters never wanted is turning out to be just as terrible as had been predicted, the foppish and painfully English prime minister, Boris Johnson, is shambling his way through an eternal fuck-up, and the last 20 opinion polls have shown the pro-independence side in the lead.

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More than a month after U.S. regulators cleared the Boeing 737 MAX as safe to fly again, China’s regulators are not ready to do the same—and don’t seem in any hurry to change their minds.

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Rudy Giuliani's only client may have left the White House, but the former prosecutor's Jan. 6 call for "trial by combat" means he'll be under scrutiny as the impeachment trial and FBI investigation of the plotting of that day’s insurrection unfold. It's not the first time the bedraggled former mayor played a role in a racist riot or dirty tricks campaign.

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Our February 2nd puzzle had a (hopefully amusing) twist: the clue for 12-Across was [Star of 1993's "Groundhog Day" whose character keeps experiencing the same thing over and over] for BILL MURRAY. Nothing unusual so far, but then the clue for 27-Across was [Star of 1993's "Groundhog Day" whose character keeps experiencing the same thing over and over (like you just did on this clue)] for, again, BILL MURRAY.

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In November, as Reno County, Kansas, weathered its worst-yet wave of COVID-19, an unusual guest took the lectern at a county commission meeting. The woman, dressed in sunny yellow, described herself as a local mother there to discuss health in the pandemic era.

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Damn near every Republican senator has to know two things. First, that this trial of Donald Trump that’s starting Tuesday is constitutional. And second, that he is obviously, relentlessly, unconditionally, morally, theologically, epistemologically, psychologically, and plain old logically guilty.

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Dangerous new strains of the novel coronavirus are spreading fast across the United States. And they all have at least one thing in common: a mutation scientists call “N501Y” that makes the virus more likely to infect our cells.

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When Ned Price began work at the CIA in 2006 as an intelligence analyst he was not yet ready to come out. Part of the process of applying for the job involved undergoing a polygraph test, which Price thought might reveal that he was gay. This part of himself, then signifying in his mind a potential for leverage and blackmail, would be out in the open and could spell the end of his aspirations to work in intelligence.

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CBS churns out law enforcement procedurals in its sleep, all of them hewing to the same template of single-episode crime-solving bound together by superficial ongoing character work and narrative arcs. Picking up where The Silence of the Lambs left off but, in reality, following in the worn-out footsteps of CSI, Criminal Minds, NCIS and FBI—to name only a few of its direct antecedents—Clarice (premiering Feb. 11) is as obvious as it is dull. Designed for maximum uninventiveness and lack of surprise... Читать дальше...

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Everything about the Superspreader Bowl, as this weekend will inevitably become, seemed intent on manufacturing the image that everything in the country was business as usual: unnecessary football game, excessively large crowd, dangerous partying, and hyperbolic capitalism passed off as entertainment, pandemic be damned. At least the halftime show was an essential reminder that we are still in the midst of a dystopian hellscape, no matter what alternate reality was being presented at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay. Читать дальше...

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“Why isn’t Donald Trump under arrest yet?”

That’s a question I hear almost daily from listeners to my SiriusXM radio show. And they’re 100 percent correct. Donald J. Trump faces his impeachment trial in the Senate this week, and that is good and necessary. But he should already be facing criminal charges arising from his incitement of the deadly attack on our Capitol, plus federal campaign finance crimes he committed with his former fixer Michael Cohen. Remember “Individual 1”? Читать дальше...

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While it’s never unusual for Hollywood’s biggest names to make cameos in Super Bowl commercials, this year there seems to be a flood of A-listers nabbing the primetime spots, which have been going for an estimated $5.5 million for just 30 seconds of airtime.

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Diplo. 50 Cent. Steve Aoki. A pool. It’d be an awesome party, were it not indoors amid a pandemic.