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LONDON—The main aim of President Biden’s European tour this week has simply been to show that the United States “is back!” at the heart of the Western diplomatic consensus.

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A star Danish footballer suddenly collapsed on the pitch during a UEFA Euro 2020 match on Saturday afternoon, leaving players and fans in tears, and forcing the suspension of the game.

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Scouting Report: Before you smother your snoring partner in their sleep, check out these comfortable, noise-cancelling headphones.

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Scouting Report: The Roccbox is easy to use and can make a pizza in a minute. It comes with everything you need to get started (except for dough, but that’s the e

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Recently I confessed to an online audience that for the first eight months of the pandemic, I hadn’t finished a book. Not one. Immediately, people chimed in to say that they too had been finding it difficult to read. And yet, I kept seeing headlines in my newsfeed that reading was up, book sales were up. Were people buying books and not reading them? I know I was. Were people reading more, but not actually finishing books? Or was I doing something wrong with my quarantine? Читать дальше...

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With the news that Donald Trump’s Justice Department targeted communications and other records of Democratic members of Congress, as well as their aides and even family members, forcing Apple to hand over metadata on no less than two Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee and gagging the tech giant from disclosing that, Rep. Adam Schiff called for an investigation into what he called a “terrible abuse of power.”

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Given the urgency to reach 70 percent vaccination in America by President Joe Biden’s July 4 deadline and the rapid decline in the number of new people getting shots, it is time to shift our strategy and move to plan B: bosses.

Bill Maher on Friday mocked the pro-Trump QAnon crowd for taking their conspiracy theory delusions to a whole new level with a bizarre claim about President Joe Biden and cicadas.

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The family that held the entire Republican Party in their death grips for the last four years is now doing what all formerly famous people do, signing autographs and being sort of pathetic.

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The 1776 Project PAC has been in operation for approximately two weeks. It has not yet tapped any of the school-board candidates it hopes to run in its crusade against the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in American schools, a cascading source of cultural panic on the right.

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It was nearly a year ago, but Fernando and Carlos Estrada-Lopez remember that hot summer day vividly.

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The blame-America-first crowd strikes again. The latest example comes to us via Rep. Ilhan Omar. Much has been made over Omar’s flirtations with antisemitism, but this time, she took things a step further: She didn’t just equate Israel with terrorist organizations, as horrible and wrong as that may be. She did the same thing to America, tweeting that “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.”

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With tears in their eyes, members of the Kardashian-Jenner family bid farewell to their career-launching reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians on Thursday night. Of course, it’s not a real goodbye: the women keep their combined 950 million Instagram followers regularly updated on their lives, plus it’s rumored their new deal with Hulu will be reminiscent of their old one on E!

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Chris Harrison might have promised to keep his lips sealed about the behind-the-scenes debauchery on The Bachelor, but he didn’t exactly go quietly.

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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is telling associates he had no idea his Justice Department seized phone records of two top Democratic congressional critics of then-President Donald Trump.