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Even though New York has one of the strictest mask mandates in the country, and one-third of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, COVID-19 infection rates are rising faster than any other state in the U.S.—and public health experts aren’t completely sure what’s behind the spike in new cases.

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Halloween candy kind of sucks. It’s so boring and it gets all the hype, but what’s so great about it? Reese’s Pumpkins? Sure, you can pick up multiple-pound bags of Kit-Kats and Snickers but it’s the same candy you can get all year, just small. Like I said, boring.

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A Fox News segment flew off the rails on Tuesday when liberal pundit Christopher Hahn went off on Tucker Carlson and conservatives for railing against “vaccine passports,” blasting the Fox News star as a “conspiracy theorist” and directly calling fellow on-air guest Mercedes Schlapp a “grifter.”

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When it comes to shopping for pillows, I always gravitate towards plush, larger-sized products that have built-in-cooling benefits. Without these practically life-saving features, I toss and turn throughout the night, and of course, lose valuable hours of shut-eye in the process. With this in mind, you can probably understand my skepticism surrounding smaller pillows (looking at you airport pillows!), as the products I have used in the past have either been too stiff... Читать дальше...

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Former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a camping trip with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, months after the Saudi leader was accused of ordering Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination, it has been claimed.

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Just moments after MMA fighter Donald Williams watched paramedics drive George Floyd’s lifeless body away on May 25, he called the police.

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History, we’re told, is written by the winners. But the first draft is often composed by whiners.

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On the final evening of a two-week cruise with stops in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan, the 3,700-plus passengers and crew members aboard the Diamond Princess ship received a message from their captain.

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James Donaldson was living on the island of Islay in Scotland, running the visitor center at a small distillery, when his partner came into the room holding up the latest issue of the island’s fortnightly newspaper. Did you see this, she asked? She pointed to an ad seeking a so-called professional forager.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival hits a little differently after a year of isolation.

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Goldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows firsthand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law.

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There are two lists of the Seven Summits, the highest peak on every continent. The Bass List, named after Richard (Dick) Bass, which includes Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia, at 7,310 feet. The second list is exactly the same as the first list only it swaps the highest peak in Australia for the highest peak in Oceania, which happens to be in Indonesia. This list known as the Messner List, named after famous mountaineer, Reinhold Messner. The Messner list includes Carstensz Pyramid... Читать дальше...

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Two and a half years ago, Lisa Lampanelli went on The Howard Stern Show and did the unthinkable: She retired from comedy.

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I became a conservative because I believed the conservative values I grew up with were the best way to bring about human flourishing for the most Americans. I still do. But in recent years it has become clear that significant parts of the conservative movement no longer share this belief (if they ever did). There is a palpable sense that not only are our values incapable of persuading a majority of Americans to support Republican politicians at the ballot box... Читать дальше...

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Protections for cleaner air and water, habitats for endangered birds, workplace protections for truckers—those were just a few of the federal regulations eroded in the twilight of the Trump administration.

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As the coronavirus pandemic enters its 14th month in the United States, there’s good news and bad.

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MIAMI— On Monday afternoon, Carrie Feit paced the sidewalk along the perimeter of a sprawling federallyowned complex across the street from an air force base in Homestead, Florida. It’s been more than a year since the property was last used to detain more than 2,000 immigrant children who crossed the border without an adult or who had been separated from their family members. The site was shut down during the Trump era amid an avalanche of scandals, including allegations of sex abuse involving the kids housed there. Читать дальше...

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A year after hospitals found themselves at the breaking point, and with a new administration in the White House and vaccines flying off shelves across the country, America’s doctors are looking down the barrel of a fresh coronavirus disaster.

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For almost a decade, Adam Neumann convinced millions of people he was a genius. Actually, that may not be hyperbolic enough. He convinced them he was a messiah, or at least one in his own mind.

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After 106 Fox appearances, it was time to make it “official.” It was time for the simple son’s wife, Lara, to commit to Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda network. This was not Lara’s first foray into actually having a job! She was once a producer for Inside Edition. This makes her pretty much the most accomplished member of the Trump family, since she didn’t work for her parents.

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The next few months might be the last of an era where travel meant short security lines, hotel deals, and nary a crowd to be seen at a major sight. So while a lot of the countries that have been closed to Americans remain that way, dozens of others with lots to see and do are open. And since the U.S. no longer has one of the world’s worst rates of infection but does have one of its highest in terms of vaccination, the U.S. dollar is much more welcome.

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It’s almost as if Jimmy Kimmel is having more fun making jokes at Donald Trump’s expense now that he’s no longer president than he did while he was still in office.

MSNBC

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan took the mainstream media to task on Monday night for going out of its way to “normalize” former Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, saying the “repugnant” far-right ideologue should potentially “be prosecuted” and definitely “be shunned.”

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A Black man shot and killed by Virginia Beach police on Friday was “brandishing a handgun” at the time of his death, the Virginia Beach Police Department said Monday. The statement comes two days after cops said they were unsure whether 25-year-old Donovon Lynch was armed during the fatal confrontation.

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With billions of dollars in lawsuits now in the balance, Dominion Voting Systems has quietly expanded its legal armada in recent days, as the election technology company goes after Trumpworld and conservative media giants.