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White celebrities should really stop announcing how little they bathe themselves or their children.

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The Dixie Fire mushroomed overnight into the third-largest wildfire in California’s history amid scorching temperatures, parched lands, and powerful wind gusts.

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Fans of Jeopardy! feel like they’re being duped. Viewers are not happy with the process of finding a new host after a carousel of diverse candidates have come through the game show’s doors, and yet, it still seems like the next presenter will be another straight white guy.

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Well, the moment has finally arrived. Meghan McCain made her final appearance on The View Friday morning and it was hard not to detect a sense of relief among her long-suffering co-hosts that it was finally over.

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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota—The annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally opens Friday, and that means hundreds of thousands of bikers roaring through South Dakota’s rugged Black Hills.

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First it was the soccer and rugby players, drinking and puking on the flight back to Sydney. Now a group of Australian hockey stars has been confined to their rooms in Tokyo’s Olympic Village after being busted for a 3 a.m. “beer run” that breached COVID-19 regulations.

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TOKYO—Three days before the Olympics began, on July 20, Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reported to an international organization that the highly infectious Lambda variant had been detected in an airport test in Japan for the first time, but did not announce it widely to the public.

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Scouting Report: This Citronella Candle is aesthetically pleasing, which is something I never thought I’d say about a candle that is so functional at keeping mosquitoes and other insects away from me.

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The lyrics to the legendary Australian musician Peter Allen’s iconic song “I Still Call Australia Home” have been bouncing around in my head over recent months as my homeland goes through one lockdown after another trying to keep the “lucky country” safe from COVID.

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It’s not snake oil, literally. But as bogus COVID-19 miracle drugs go, horse paste comes pretty close.

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In 2019, tensions between pop stars and journalists reached boiling point. Lizzo was attacking Pitchfork for allowing a non-musician to review her album Cuz I Love You. Justin Bieber accused an E! News host of “bullying” for suggesting that he lip-synced during Ariana Grande’s Coachella set. Grande also chimed in with a remark about bloggers not being “lit inside” that instantly became a meme. Lana Del Rey famously chided NPR music critic Ann Powers for innocuously stating that she had a persona. Читать дальше...

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Craven opportunism is all about timing, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry made his move two hours before his state’s governor announced a mask mandate in response to a record increase in new COVID-19 cases, a distressing number of them involving children.

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I have never been the kind of person to stand on the beach in the pre-dawn hours, the sky dark above me, the sand cold beneath my bare feet, but the pandemic has changed many things. I no longer want the things I used to want. The beach at noon with its crowds, and noise, and music hold no allure for me anymore. Suddenly, and with force, I want quiet and beauty—to see things I’d never seen before.

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The U.S. is ramping up its global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During a White House press conference, President Biden noted that the administration had exceeded its commitment to have by now distributed 80 million doses of the vaccine worldwide and had, in fact, already provided 110 million doses, no strings attached, to nations in need worldwide. He also reiterated the U.S. commitment to provide another 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, noting that the U.S.... Читать дальше...

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Somehow, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are accelerating as rapidly and dangerously as they did during last summer’s surge in the southern United States. This time, many governors aren’t just refusing or curtailing social distancing—they are failing kids and teenagers with an unwillingness to better protect them from the risks posed by the Delta variant.

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The difficulty with enacting “temporary, emergency” moratoriums on unpopular but necessary legal processes is not starting them, but ending them. In my long career with New York City’s planning department, the agency continually resisted demands for moratoriums on types of construction some politicians saw as problematic. The bureaucrats knew that once the moratorium went into effect it would be extended, again and again. Only the courts would be able to remove it.

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If there is one thing fans of The L Word, both the original and the “Generation Q” reboot, can agree on, it’s that the friendship between Shane McCutcheon and Alice Pieszecki has always been the backbone of the series.

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“We are in a crisis and this governor is raising money off of anti-Fauci merch and going to other states to do fundraisers,” Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried says of Ron DeSantis.

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The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol changed plenty about U.S. politics, but one smaller consequence was the Federal Election Commission ruling that members of Congress could now spend campaign money on a new item: bodyguards.

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Meet Codepoint U+1F943.

That’s the name for what’s commonly called the whiskey glass emoji, at least among those fluent in Unicode speech. It’s basically the Libbey Signature Stinson 12-ounce Rocks Glass half-full with a bourbon that’s been aged six years. At least to my eye—but maybe it’s a Jamaican rum.

Maybe it’s an unsweetened tea.

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New Kids on the Block helps you navigate all the new and exciting launches from our favorite brands, all in one place.

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A discussion of rising COVID-19 cases in Florida on Sean Hannity’s show devolved into a squabble Thursday night as Fox News host Geraldo Rivera sparred with Fox Nation host Dan Bongino.

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Hackers are going after U.S. hospitals with a fresh wave of cyberattacks this week just as coronavirus cases surge around the country.

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A Marine corps veteran has come forward to implicate billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke in the decades-old death of her close confidant, prompting a reopening of the case.