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There was a time when Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney, welcomed a confrontation with Dominion Voting Systems, the election technology firm demonized by the Trumpist right. But when the moment came for her to be served with a defamation lawsuit, Powell wouldn’t even get out of her car.

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Conservative personal finance guru Dave Ramsey on Thursday shrugged off the need for additional stimulus checks amid a pandemic-induced economic crisis, telling Fox News that “if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already.”

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Ahead of Thursday’s impeachment hearings, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) joined MSNBC to offer up her defense of Donald Trump. But her “constitutional” argument didn’t fly with anchor Chuck Todd.

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Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins wasn’t planning to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 with her mace, taser, and nightstick only.

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Once again, The Bachelor is trying to feel its way through a racism controversy—and this time, it’s not just a vexing contestant who’s landed in hot water, but host Chris Harrison as well.

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A top New York Times columnist claims the paper’s publisher shelved his opinion column defending Donald McNeil, the journalist who recently left the paper after reports emerged that he said a racial slur while on a trip chaperoning high-school students.

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What’s the number one problem you have with your face mask? For me, that’s easy: I can’t see anything when I’m wearing mine. No, it doesn’t cover my eyes, but I haven’t been able to find a face mask I can wear that doesn’t, without fail, fog up my glasses. For the past six months, I resorted to using this anti-fog spray, which while effective, doesn’t have the longevity I need and I’d be left unable to see again before I knew it. Thankfully... Читать дальше...

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Years before a Russian poison squad nearly killed Alexei Navalny by allegedly planting a Novichok-like nerve agent in his boxer shorts, the same group was honing its skills on other Russian opposition figures, according to a new report by Bellingcat.

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Tighten up your face mask or double it up. That’s the latest advice from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as dangerous new strains of the novel coronavirus spread across the United States and health officials scramble to get vaccines in arms.

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Joe Biden is an unlikely superhero, but it is time to acknowledge that America’s 46th president has a superpower.

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ROME—Forget Valentine’s Day. It’s ski week that really defines February for many Europeans, who wouldn’t dream of giving up their après-ski vin chaud or hot buttered rum by a roaring fire in a crowded resort to chase the winter blues away. And even though vaccination rollout has been dismal across the E.U. and new variants of COVID-19 are making it particularly dangerous to meet and mingle, many European skiers are planning to hit the slopes anyway. Читать дальше...

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Perry Connelly quickly noticed that something was off when he began working at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, last spring. Managers were unfriendly to the point of not acknowledging employees when they walked past, and they were quick to write people up for infractions that seemed minuscule or made-up, such as too much time “off-task.”

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It is upsetting to watch Stanley Tucci slowly die.

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A year after the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. still does not have a full accounting of how many people have died of COVID-19.

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When it comes to watching Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, forget the lies, forget the distractions, forget the now predictable antics of Sen. Josh Hawley.

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Last month Rupert Murdoch received an honor that, although obscure, meant a lot to him.

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In 2008, the same year that Britney Spears had been placed under a 5150 psychiatric hold after losing custody of her children amid a painful, tabloid-fueled public breakdown, a gaggle of Family Feud contestants took turns guessing at all the things she’d lost. Her hair? Ding! Her husband? Ding! Her sanity? Host John O’Hurley’s voice boomed with classic game show boisterousness as he shouted, “Has she lost her mind?!” Ding! Other answers included “Her Children” and “Weight”—to which O’Hurley replied... Читать дальше...

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"I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” Donald Trump said in the infamous Access Hollywood tape that caught him bragging about grabbing women by the private parts.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson went full conspiracy theorist on Wednesday night, suggesting George Floyd’s death somehow proves that the insurrectionist Capitol riot is part of a liberal plot to change the “old order” of America.

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OnlyFans seemed to explode when the country was rocked by the pandemic last March. As businesses closed and entire industries were forced to undergo layoffs, the subscription-based service had sex workers, performers, influencers, and everyday men and women signing up to see if they could make some extra cash.

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Unlike his competitor over on CBS, Jimmy Kimmel found the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial “boring and pointless.” Day two was a different story.

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When word leaked out that the House managers had “new evidence” in their case against Trump, the reflex was to think: Well, okay, but if you’re going to leak this in advance, it better live up to the hype.

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The footage was silent. It didn’t need sound.

The pictures were clear enough. The glass from a window on the first floor of the Senate is shattered. A police officer briefly responds, before quickly retreating, realizing how outnumbered he is. The mob pours into the U.S. Capitol.

A Capitol Police officer named Eugene Goodman sprints to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who was unwittingly walking toward a mob, and tells him to turn around. He stops cold and turns back inside.

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Larry Flynt, the porn tycoon and unlikely First Amendment champion, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of heart failure, according to TMZ. He was 78.

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An MIT researcher considered “armed and dangerous” has been named as a person of interest in the murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.