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MAGA-boosting Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) seemingly proposed another “Stop the Steal”-type rally in D.C. this week while sympathizing with the “political hostages” that were arrested and charged for participating in the violent Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

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The last U.S. evacuation flight left Kabul’s airport on Monday, officially ending America’s 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan but leaving hundreds of Americans behind in a country now controlled by the Taliban.

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After meeting R. Kelly at a McDonald’s drive-thru in 2006 when he was 17 years old, a man testified on Monday that the disgraced singer sexually assaulted him after promising to help with his music career.

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As Rudy Giuliani navigates an increasingly lonely and stormy world amid a federal investigation and a billion-dollar defamation suit, he’ll now have to do so without his young but trusted communications director.

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An NBC News segment was suddenly cut off after an enraged Mississippi resident violently confronted NBC News correspondent Shaquille Brewster on Monday during a live report on the devastating damage unleashed by Hurricane Ida.

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A Connecticut doctor awaiting trial on charges of writing fraudulent opioid prescriptions allegedly tried to hire the Hells Angels to murder a witness who was planning to testify against him.

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Two days after R. Kelly secretly married Aaliyah in 1994, the singer sexually assaulted a 17-year-old in his dressing room after a concert in Miami, the now 43-year-old testified in Brooklyn federal court on Monday.

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Your duvet cover is a quick and easy way to show off your personality in the bedroom. You can instantly elevate your space with a new duvet cover while putting in much less money and effort than if you were to say, paint a wall or get a new nightstand. And, of course, your duvet cover is one of the first things that you see in the morning.

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New court filings include explosive allegations made by disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes against the company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, with whom she was in a long-term relationship.

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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana—Rebecca Rome evacuated New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That Hurricane Ida arrived on the 16th anniversary of that nightmare was not lost on her as Louisiana woke up to the trail of devastation left behind by the latest monster storm.

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Prince Andrew has abandoned public life, given up trans-Atlantic travel, and spends much of his free time sheltering behind the high walls of various properties owned by his mother, the sovereign, as he attempts to evade scrutiny from U.S. authorities over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and specific allegations that he raped, on three occasions, the then-17-year-old sex-trafficking victim Virginia Roberts.

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U.S. forces preparing the final civilian evacuations amid tightened security at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport intercepted as many as five rockets aimed at them Monday morning, CNN reports. On Sunday, the U.S. confirmed it had launched a drone attack in a residential neighborhood on a suicide bomber who was reportedly heading for the airport. At least nine members of families who had at one time worked with U.S. forces were killed in the chaos, including six children... Читать дальше...

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Crossword writers often get stuck in "Wikipedia holes," where you set off to research a clue for a certain word, then wind up spending 15 minutes reading fascinating articles, only to return to your puzzle...without even having come up with the clue you set out to find! It's an interesting world out there, and crosswords touch on all aspects of it, so Wikipedia holes are an occupational hazard.

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In January of 2019, America fell under the spell of Marie Kondo—the Japanese doyenne of de-cluttering whose Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo saw her enter America’s homes and help people reorganize using her KonMari method, which entails taking stock of one’s belongings and then tossing anything that fails to “spark joy.” The show was such a sensation that Goodwill donations exploded across the country, with centers in Washington, D.C., seeing a 66 percent spike. Media... Читать дальше...

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PHOENIX—It was another 100-degree summer day in Arizona and Kyrsten Sinema couldn’t take the heat.

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What will it take for the American majority to stop being hijacked by the bad-faith politics of an increasingly radicalized GOP that will stop at nothing to promote death and achieve minority rule?

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I was once asked by a mainstream production executive what my name on IMDb was.

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On Monday, September 16, Jen Berrent and Artie Minson met in the lobby of JPMorgan’s headquarters at 383 Madison. The two longtime Neumann deputies were due to meet with Mary Callahan Erdoes and Noah Wintroub soon, but they needed to get on the same page.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE—Since the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, the small island nation has spiraled even further into chaos. From a devastating earthquake earlier this month, to violent gangs gaining ground, and rampant corruption within its elite, it is hard to see how the country will prosper. In fact, the current political elite’s inability to deal with and then fix any of these issues is a testimony to its unwillingness to care for its people, who are forced to fend for themselves. Читать дальше...

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An overview of the September 11 attacks (timed to their upcoming 20TH anniversary) that also scrutinizes the domestic policies and military campaigns that followed in their wake, Netflix’s Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror can’t quite keep pace with the news currently coming out of Afghanistan; its most up-to-date note is an Aug. 15 text card about the Taliban regaining control of Kabul. Nonetheless, if it just misses out on fully grappling with the Biden administration’s controversial recent actions... Читать дальше...