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MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, announced Tuesday that she is donating another $2.7 billion—but she’d very much prefer if no one mentioned how very rich she is.

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Scouting Report: The Salomon X Ultra 4 Mid provides the safety features and functionality you need in a hiking boot, as well as the lightweight comfort you want.

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In March 1987, the body of successful private investigator Daniel Morgan was discovered in a London pub car park after an axe had been driven deep into his skull. Despite five police investigations in the 34 years since, no one has ever been brought to justice over the murder—but, on Tuesday, Morgan’s family finally started to get some answers.

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Scouting Report: Grove Collaborative’s rollout with Target makes the reusable cleaning supplies I love even more accessible. Win, win.

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We’re all going out into the world now, and if we’re vaxxed, without masks. This means grooming is way more important than it has been for the past year. If you’ve been sleeping on manscaping, this is the sale for you. Make sure you don’t have any hairs popping out of your nose with our favorite nose hair trimmer, that is for right now, 15% off.

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President Donald Trump did not even wait until he announced the departure of Bill Barr from the Justice Department before piling pressure on his successor to probe discredited election fraud claims.

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Carrie Budoff Brown, currently the top editor of Politico, is leaving the top D.C. publication for a role overseeing the long-running Meet the Press franchise for NBC News, The Daily Beast confirmed.

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John Birt, the director general of the BBC at the time of Martin Bashir’s famous Panorama interview with Princess Diana, now says Bashir was a “serial liar on an industrial scale.”

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Trust in news sources has been plummeting for a long time now, but recent events promise to make it sink it to new depths.

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For those who’ve been out and proud, current efforts around June have felt either redundant or problematic. It’s high time we reclaim this month for what it should be. This year, it finally happened. I’ve finally become one of those gays who now go, “Oh, it’s Pride month.”

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Scouting Report: These lightweight linen-blend Madewell pants keep you feeling cool, and their sleek tapered cut keeps you, well, looking cool.

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MOSCOW—In Russia, dissidents, opposition activists, and journalists by the dozen have languished in jail for years as political hostages—pawns in Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic games with the West.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has been busy lately—and we don’t mean manning the grill at summer barbecues. On Wednesday, he announced the Biden Department of Justice is getting to the bottom of the leak investigations within the Trump administration that led to multiple subpoenas of lawmakers’ and journalists’ personal information, or as Molly Jong-Fast said on this episode of The New Abnormal, “Watergate on crack.”

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This is the latest in our twice-a-month series on underrated destinations, It’s Still a Big World.

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Employees at New York’s most prominent public radio station are terrified that criticizing their station’s leadership could result in being singled out for layoffs and reprimands by human resources.

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The Phantom is an anti-death penalty documentary that makes a compelling case that the wrong man was convicted—and put to death—by the state of Texas in 1983. It’s a portrait of criminal justice system imperfections, although to its detriment, it never quite pinpoints all the reasons why things didn’t work out correctly. Tackling issues of racial and economic inequity, as well as law enforcement and prosecutorial sloppiness, it puts forward a collection of intriguing theories as to what really took place... Читать дальше...

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The Martini is the most famous drink. Its signature glass is equally iconic, and perhaps even more common.

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Fifteen months after he abruptly left the Ed Sullivan Theater and started hosting A Late Show from first his bathtub and later a small office, Stephen Colbert made his triumphant return Monday night, with a fully vaccinated audience in their seats and his old friend Jon Stewart by his side.

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When Dana Carvey appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year he debuted an impression of President Joe Biden that instantly surpassed anything that Jim Carrey—or any other SNL impersonators for that matter—managed to pull off over the past couple of decades.