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Viewers of the British TV program This Morning are up in arms after one of the hosts compared the hair of a guest to that of an animal. Eamonn Holmes has since—kind of—apologized for his rude statement, but he appears not to have fully grasped the racist connotations of what he said.

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An anti-abortion extremist from Ohio who herded members of a pro-Trump mob near the entrance of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was arrested by the FBI on Thursday for allegedly assaulting law enforcement in the violent frenzy to breach the building.

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In a move that signals a rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, American troops are being deployed to Kabul to help evacuate some U.S. embassy staffers.

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The New York Times is engaged in a contentious back and forth with several hundred of the paper’s technology and product staffers who announced a unionization drive earlier this year. So it was likely a bit embarrassing when the law firm representing the paper’s management accidentally sent a private strategy memo to representatives for the newly unionized staff.

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It could’ve all been so simple, but the folks over at ABC just had to make it hard.

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Anton Lazzaro, a young Republican strategist and former congressional campaign manager in Minnesota, was arrested on underage sex trafficking charges Thursday morning, according to federal law enforcement.

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Scouting Report: The J.Crew Patch-pocket Cotton Poplin Shirtdress is the answer to back-to-work wardrobe woes. It's breezy, flattering, and comfortable: all things you want for work.

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Editor’s note: a previous version of this story conflated the number of children hospitalized with COVID in the past year with the current hospitalized tally as of this past week. We regret the error.

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Rachel Maddow has been MSNBC’s most high-profile on-air personality for more than a decade, long embodying the network’s liberal ethos and raking in an obsessive following for her nightly primetime broadcast.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who has repeatedly tried to have it both ways when it comes to former president Donald Trump’s “big lie,”was heckled by a fervent MAGA supporter and election denialist at a recent fundraising event for saying the 2020 election wasn’t stolen.

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Two musicians affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan were shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday in Portland, Oregon, with a family member believing they were “assassinated” over “​jealousy, lust, hate, and greed.”

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Scouting Report: Zappos and Abercrombie & Fitch team up on a collection of denim, tops, and first-ever shoes.

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A Mexican farm worker who discovered the gruesome remains of surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman’s dead toddlers on the Rancho Del Descanso property where he worked says he was shocked when his dog led him to the two “small bodies.”

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It’s been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers, the former president has kept refusing to mount anything resembling a real effort to get his supporters vaccinated.

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The death of the rapper Eazy-E was jolting. The leading member of the pioneering “gangsta rap” group N.W.A. passed away in March 1995 after a devastatingly short battle with HIV/AIDS, unaware he had the virus until he checked into a Los Angeles hospital a few weeks earlier.

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Coroner Dr. Charles Preston of St. Tammany Parish reports that the Delta variant has the hospitals there and the rest of Louisiana approaching critical overload, with long lines extending from the emergency rooms.

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On Tuesday, HBO announced the renewal of its Hawaii-based, beautifully dark, twisted satire The White Lotus for a second season. Last week, perhaps presaging the announcement, showrunner and certifiable white wealth whisperer Mike White hinted at the show’s turn toward an anthological romp—“a Marvel Universe-type thing” with a new cast and new locale to insult both in art and in life. The latest entry in HBO’s catalogue of loveless and corrosive whites doing deliciously awful things much to... Читать дальше...

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BAGHDAD—The spot where Ehab al-Wazni was gunned down is just out of reach of the security cameras that project onto a TV screen in the corner of his family’s living room. His mother Samira casts a nervous glance at the screen whenever the sound of an engine echoes down the narrow alleyway that leads to their house in the Iraqi city of Karbala.

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Unless you’re a masochist, the process of international travel is rarely pleasant. Security, boarding, draining overnight flights, border controls, luggage, inflexible airlines, and so on. The age of COVID made some things a little easier (less people) but others harder (testing, and confusing requirements). Perhaps the most difficult part was that many of the places Americans were used to going, such as France, made it clear that we were unwelcome.

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I did something recently that would have been inconceivable to me at almost any point prior to the past several years of my life. I—born in America’s heartland, a former U.S. government official, someone who has devoted most of his adult life to grappling with questions of how you make this country better and stronger—became a citizen of another country. I did not and would never give up my U.S. citizenship. But now, I have two passports, one U.S. and one Austrian.

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Conservative governors around the country are waging war against efforts to require mask-wearing in public schools. But as more than 50 million K-12 students return to school in the next six weeks, what will almost certainly be a more contentious issue looms: the Biden administration’s goal of having vaccine clinics in schools around the country.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set off a wave of centrist pearl-clutching when she warned Senate Democrats last month that progressive lawmakers were willing to “tank” Joe Biden’s signature infrastructure bill if it arrived in the House without a companion bill packed with trillions more in critical climate and social infrastructure spending.

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Brandon Silva was born, raised and nurtured in Houston. He currently lives in the Texas city, having diverted briefly through Denmark, and is the co-owner and executive chef of the restaurant Degust (distilled from “degustation.”) The exquisite Mexican/Spanish establishment has a Scandinavian feel with distinct Japanese influences.

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Well, it looks like the “con is winding down.”

Trump-boosting pillow salesman Mike Lindell had offered $5 million to anyone who showed up to his three-day “cyber symposium” and could disprove his claims that China hacked the 2020 presidential election via voting machines.

That offer is no longer on the table as of Wednesday evening, according to Josh Merritt, the MyPillow CEO’s lead cyber expert.

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