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After mounting pressure from several major gun manufacturers, the National Rifle Association announced Tuesday that it was cancelling its much-anticipated annual meeting in Texas next weekend.

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A young woman in Texas who beat murder charges last year in the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman with disabilities is now wanted by police after allegedly breaking into a couple’s suburban Houston home, dousing them with a liquid, and setting them ablaze.

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Scouting Report: The Peter Thomas Roth Cucumber Gel Mask takes care of redness from any kind of irritation. It's soothing, cooling, and just really fun to put on.

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A federal judge in California has granted disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti a mistrial in a case accusing him of siphoning millions from his own clients.

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Failed Republican congressional candidate turned pro-Trump pundit Kimberly Klacik has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against fellow right-wing provocateur Candace Owens over a social-media video Owens posted in June accusing Klacik of being a strip club “madame” who laundered money and used campaign funds to do cocaine.

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Charlie Watts, one of the original members of The Rolling Stones, died on Tuesday at the age of 80, his London publicist said in a statement.

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To ensure his power over live-in girlfriends, R. Kelly would tell the young women their parents had “sold” them to the disgraced R&B singer because “they did not care” about their children, a witness told jurors in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday.

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The British-educated son of one of Afghanistan’s most revered anti-Taliban warlords is the last holdout against the Taliban, staking claim in the Panjshir Valley about 100 miles north of Kabul.

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Few places are left in the world that still retain the mystique they've inspired for centuries of humanity. One of those is undoubtedly the Amazon—that vast, intimidating, and enchanting stretch of rainforest carpeting central South America. Few have captured it so well—with mystery, beauty, and grace—as Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian photojournalist.

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The hugely controversial 2020 Paralympic Games opened one year late in COVID-ridden Tokyo on Tuesday, with a dramatic firework display and a celebration of Japanese culture in a nearly empty stadium.

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It’s Tuesday, which means Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York and a brutal decade is at an end here.

Scouting Report: If you’re looking for an actually good frozen pizza, look no further. Roberta’s has nailed it with these 10-packs of personal style pies that heat up in just five minutes.

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For months, residents of a tiny community in Central Idaho were at war with a rich neighbor, who was landing private planes and a chopper on his property inside federally regulated land. They organized, they wrote angry letters, and they gave themselves a name, Friends of the SNRA, or Sawtooth National Recreation Area.

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Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed sounds like the title of a true-crime parody, promising a dark and gritty take on the life of one of America’s cheeriest—and most beloved—artistic figures. Nonetheless, there’s nothing jokey about Joshua Rofé’s Netflix documentary (Aug. 25), which serves as both a loving portrait of the landscape painter who inspired millions to pick up a brush, and a disheartening exposé of the various ways in which his work, and legacy, were exploited by the selfish partners closest to him. Читать дальше...

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JERUSALEM—The massive surge of COVID-19 infections in Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries on earth, is pointing to a complicated path ahead for America.

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Before Nicole Byer became the Emmy-nominated face of Netflix’s family-friendly baking-competition show Nailed It!, she was best known as one of the raunchiest comedians on the stand-up scene. It’s the type of juxtaposition that has drawn parallels to Bob Saget, another filthy comic who found fame on the super-saccharine sitcom Full House.

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For all of the media attention here on President Biden’s handling of Afghanistan, the latest poll numbers show that it’s his handling of COVID-19 that’s been most damaging to his standing with the American public— and that could get worse, fast, if the Delta variant disrupts the school year.

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Of all the dozens of different kinds of beer that are now sold, Oktoberfest beer is arguably the one that has the strongest ties to the calendar. After all, there’s a month in its name!

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“The fact that everything collapsed so quickly to me vindicates Biden’s decision,” Jeet Heer says on this week’s second episode of The New Abnormal as thousands scramble to get out of Afghanistan.

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Snoop Dogg on Monday urged the NBA and the NFL to stop punishing players for using marijuana, saying they’re lagging behind the other two major North American professional sports leagues when it comes to adopting a more progressive drug-testing policy.

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As the Justice Department investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian dealings continues, the Republican Party is ignoring the controversy and shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to a curious pair: a husband-and-wife team of his associates who played key roles in his alleged efforts to meddle in the 2020 presidential election.

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Sports columnist turned right-wing pundit Jason Whitlock cited racial justice and trans rights to outright claim that “a lot of what the Left supports is satanic,” a view Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he “completely” agreed with on Monday night.

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President Harry Truman famously said that “if you want a friend in politics, get a dog.” We learned the inverse of that on Monday, from a man on his way out of office: If you’re a dog in politics, beware of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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After he resigned in disgrace, Andrew Cuomo seemed to want nothing to do with his former life. As the New York governor began leaving the state’s executive mansion, he seemed to do the same to his dog, Captain.

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Surveillance video obtained by The Daily Beast shows a slain Utah couple at a local tavern the night before they disappeared, laughing and chatting with friends to whom they complained about a “weirdo” camping near them in the wilderness.