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Melania Trump sure cares a lot about her rose garden. The former first lady took some time away from her busy post-FLOTUS schedule of going to the spa and eating lunch at Mar-a-Lago to “fire back” at NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who dared to criticize her (hired hands’) decorating skills.

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Dan Bongino on Monday criticized Fox News, his employer, for posting an edited version of his interview with former President Donald Trump to YouTube over the weekend.

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Scouting Report: This daily lotion from Harry's knocks it out of the park when it comes to providing my sensitive skin the moisture it needs, while not irritating it one bit.

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Jeopardy! executive producer and hosting frontrunner Mike Richards has responded to a series of old complaints from his tenure on The Price Is Right. In a memo to staff shared with The Daily Beast, Richards brushed aside a series of old lawsuits from his tenure with The Price Is Right in which female employees complained of harassment and discrimination, which allegedly took place during and after their pregnancies.

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The outdoors is a great place to be right now. With cases on the rise again and mask mandates happening in cities nationwide, being outside sounds like a really nice idea. But we've all be stuck inside over the last year and a half and we may not be very prepared to go on a multi-mile hike or scale a rock face. So, there's never been a better time than now to upgrade your outdoor gear than during Backcountry's Semi-Annual sale, where you'll get up to 50% off tents... Читать дальше...

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It’s been more than two years since Ryan Adams’ life imploded after several women, including his ex-wife Mandy Moore and musician Phoebe Bridgers, came forward in Feb. 2019 to accuse the singer-songwriter of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct.

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Time’s Up Chairwoman Roberta Kaplan resigned from the organization on Monday amid criticism for her role in an effort to undermine the sexual-harassment allegations of one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s accusers.

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Brittany Commisso has spoken out for the first time since filing a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week, telling CBS News that the governor turned her dream job into a “nightmare.”

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There is no question that record heatwaves in North America and southern Europe, which sparked wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes and burnt through millions of acres of forests, are worrying. But according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC report released Monday morning there is a far worse dilemma on the horizon: the Arctic is melting three times faster than anyone thought. “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” Linda Mearns... Читать дальше...

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Scouting Report: This Vornado Fan is small yet powerful, easy to adjust, has three different settings for speed, and looks cute on a desktop, in your living room or anywhere you decide to put it.

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When Andrew Rannells was 22, he was on a second date with a guy named Brad. Brad had blue eyes, which seemed hot. Even better, he lived in Astoria just like Rannells, who was still years away from scoring his Broadway big break and then starring in TV series and films like Girls, Black Monday, and The Boys in the Band.

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In Texas, elementary schools are required by law to notify parents within 48 hours if a student in their child’s class becomes aware they have head lice, and provide Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations on how to treat and prevent the infestation.

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Communism is a touchy subject for most Americans.

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Mexico has recently earned the sordid distinction of being the global leader in hacking its own citizens, after allegations surfaced earlier in July that authorities used the controversial spyware program Pegasus to tap the phones of at least 15,000 politicians, journalists, activists, and other influential citizens.

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Untreated broken bones. Foodborne illnesses from undercooked meals. Outdoor activity limited to the hottest hours of the day, when temperatures regularly hit triple digits.

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WinRed PAC, the for-profit Republican fundraising juggernaut, raised more than $2.24 billion for GOP campaigns and committees in the 2020 election. But somehow, that gargantuan undertaking appears to have cost the PAC almost nothing.

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It’s better to have a war of words than a real war. If you’re looking for a silver lining to our current political situation, the political combat between our elected leaders has been confined to mean tweets and name-calling, not gunplay and death.

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Much writing on Russia stems from a simple proposition: to understand autocracy, you need understand the autocrat. Because autocrats have an outsize influence on politics, it is essential to know what makes the leader tick. A Putin adviser coined the memorable phase “No Putin, No Russia,” but for many Western observers, “Know Putin, Know Russia” might be more appropriate.

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It’s hard enough to make a round of four delicious classic cocktails on a slow night for a couple of regulars. Now imagine trying to make them on stage in front of a screaming crowd for a group of prestigious judges prepared to critique them—out loud.

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It’s been a while since we checked the official Daily Beast crossword Twitter hashtag, which is #beastxword. Let’s see what they’re saying:

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On Sunday night, John Oliver kicked off the latest episode of Last Week Tonight by poking fun at Tucker Carlson’s fascism tour in Hungary before addressing the recent revelations about Andrew Cuomo. The New York governor not only covered up the state’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths (which he is in large part responsible for by ordering those with COVID-19 back into nursing homes) and released a book during the ongoing pandemic about how well he was handling it but also has been found to have... Читать дальше...