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After private equity billionaire Robert Smith admitted to a 15-year tax fraud scheme to hide $225 million from the Internal Revenue Service, he signed a rare non-prosecution agreement with law enforcement, allowing him to avoid any charges and return to civilian life.

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Amidst growing calls to lift the historically low yearly cap on refugee admissions into the United States, President Joe Biden on Friday signed an emergency order intended to speed the admissions process for those fleeing war, natural disaster or persecution abroad—but did not lift the cap itself, setting up a potential conflict with Democratic allies on Capitol Hill.

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A heavy metal guitarist and self-described “founding” member of the Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol armed with bear spray has become the first Jan. 6 insurrectionist to plead guilty and cooperate with the feds, prosecutors said Friday.

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Ivanka Trump got some unexpected love on The View Friday morning after she shocked her right-wing anti-vaxxer fans by doing what her father refused to do: Posting a photo of herself getting the COVID-19 vaccine and urging others to do the same.

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Taking a bath after a work day is my cure for practically everything. Sick? Take a bath. Sore? Take a bath. Stressed? Definitely take a bath. While I tend to gravitate towards bath bombs and bubbles, I had wanted to see if I could get the most relaxation from my warm soak. The Lord Jones CBD Bath Salts changed bath time for me for good, pairing essential oils and potent CBD for a soothing, tingling bath that helps melt my worries away.

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A Michigan man with Down syndrome—whose futile quest to get the COVID-19 vaccine was chronicled by The Daily Beast—has died from complications related to the virus his family said.

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A new year, another reminder of how wildly incompetent and irreparably dangerous the Chicago Police Department remains. On Thursday, after a week of coast-to-coast news about extrajudicial police killings, the Chicago PD finally released body cam footage showing that 13-year-old Adam Toledo had dropped a handgun and began raising his hands less than a second before a cop shot and killed him in March.

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Doctors in hard-hit Brazil have resorted to tying COVID-19 patients to their hospital beds before ramming ventilators down their throats since they no longer have enough sedatives, according to doctors in Rio de Janeiro. “I never thought that I would be living through something like this after 20 years working in intensive care,” Aureo do Carmo Filho told Reuters. “Using mechanical restraints without sedatives is bad practice... the patient is submitted to a form of torture.”

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City officials are trying to figure out how a single Quebec City gym that refused to obey lockdown orders could have been linked to the infection of at least 580 people including one 40-year-old man who died after contracting COVID.

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In the U.K. it is customary to receive a personalized message from the queen on your 100th birthday—such is the relative rarity of reaching the milestone.

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Thomas Byrd wants to make one thing very clear: He never told police who arrested him for biting off a chunk of his wife’s face that he was Batman.

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When four liberal lawmakers came to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to roll out legislation to add seats to the high court, they may have had the base of the Democratic Party strongly behind them, but their party leaders across the street in the Capitol—and many of their colleagues—might as well have been residing in a different political universe.

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Windsor Castle was already shaping up to play host to a royal funeral unlike any other this Saturday, but Buckingham Palace’s revelation Thursday night, which revealed inter alia that Harry and William would not walk side by side behind their grandfather’s coffin, has now completely altered the narrative of the day’s events.

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Imagine waking up with a pounding headache, a stranger next to you, and Mike Tyson’s tiger in your bathroom. Now imagine if, instead of downing a pot of coffee and taking a hot shower, your hangover cure started with a shot of Jägermeister.

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In an apparent effort to secure votes for his party in India’s upcoming state elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has allowed at least 50 million Hindus to take to the Ganga river for a holy dip in a religious festival that has turned into an unprecedented COVID-19 superspreader event.

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Living sustainably, or at least, more sustainably, is difficult to do. Composting in NYC just isn’t going to happen (my trash was way too stinky). Even though I know there are tons of other swaps to make, I kinda feel like I need someone to curate everything for me, to make my sustainable shopping experience easier. That’s where Goldune comes in.

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For decades, anti-drug advocates have warned that peer pressure is a one-way ticket to reefer madness. Now, advocates on Capitol Hill and in the burgeoning cannabis industry hope their increasingly successful legalization campaign can go nationwide with a similar strategy, aimed squarely at pushing President Joe Biden to just say “yes.”

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Samuel Little claimed to have fatally strangled 93 women in numerous states over the course of his homicidal life, and Confronting a Serial Killer lets him expound on his crimes—and his motivations—in hours of audio interviews conducted by author Jillian Lauren. Both for this docuseries and as part of the research for her forthcoming book Exit Sandman: The True Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, Lauren struck up a friendship... Читать дальше...

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On a special edition of The New Abnormal, the president’s son opens up to Molly Jong-Fast about … well, about a lot. Why the Trumps continue to go after him so hard. Why his wife won’t let him have a laptop. How easy it is to cook crack cocaine. How hard it is to live in fear of a relapse.

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In early February, a for-profit corporation that’s received millions of dollars from the federal government to house migrant kids—and has long been plagued with accusations of child abuse at its residential facilities for at-risk youth—began quietly accommodating unaccompanied boys in the desert plains of Benson, Arizona.

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A gunman opened fire at a FedEx ground facility near Indianapolis International Airport late Thursday night, killing eight people in mere minutes before taking his own life, authorities said Friday.

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During a Thursday night Fox News appearance, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya—who took part in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ coronavirus panel discussion that was pulled from YouTube for COVID-19 misinformation—claimed that the nation’s top infectious disease expert was actually America’s “No. 1 anti-vaxxer.”

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On Thursday night, comedian Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the latest edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! by addressing the vaccine selfie that Ivanka Trump—whose father, brother, and stepmother contracted COVID-19 due to their reckless behavior—posted to her Instagram.