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JERUSALEM—Israel’s prisons are confronting a rebellion as inmates associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad rioted and set fire to cells following the spectacular escape, on Monday, of six fellow prisoners held in one of Israel’s most secured jails.

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John Pierce, the MAGA-sympathizing lawyer and anti-vaxxer representing scores of defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, has finally reemerged in court after mysteriously disappearing from public view for weeks amid a purported bout of COVID.

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A colorful Georgia district attorney who was criminally charged for shooting a video of supporters doing donuts around him in an arena parking lot is in trouble yet again.

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Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who sells anti-mask merchandise on his campaign website, now wonders why masks have become so political.

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The former president and co-founder of NXIVM—who has admitted to going to extreme lengths to protect the shadowy self-help group and its deranged sex-cult leader—has been sentenced to 42 months in prison.

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John Mulaney sat down with his close friend Seth Meyers on Tuesday night to open up about his recent struggles with substance abuse, his newfound triumphs, and to announce that he is expecting his first child with actress Olivia Munn.

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A prominent South Carolina attorney whose wife and son were brutally murdered—and who has since been shot in the head, ousted from his firm for alleged theft, and placed in rehab for drug dependency—has been suspended from practicing law, the state’s highest court ruled.

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Work has finally begun to remove the huge statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia—one of the biggest Confederate monuments in the nation and one in the heart of the former capital of the Confederacy.

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Her mother tells people that 6-year-old Hattie Shell and her 8-year-old sister, Hazel, are “dirt balls with glitter on it.”

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Caitlyn Jenner’s campaign for the California governorship has its fair share of seasoned political consultants—but the person who keeps her other non-political ventures on track also appears to be benefiting from Jenner’s long-shot run.

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A two-time failed congressional candidate who has defended using the n-word and spouted COVID-19 conspiracy theories has apparently become a highly sought-after “expert” for Republicans conducting sham election audits.

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A few weeks ago, a video of Steve Lynch, the Republican nominee for Northampton county executive in Pennsylvania, went viral when he declared to a crowd: “I’m going in with 20 strong men.”

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In the predawn darkness last Monday, a group of about 20 heavily armed commandos seized control of the downtown financial block in Araçatuba, a mid-sized Brazilian city in the eastern state of São Paulo. They then proceeded to rob three banks, while the surveillance drones they had deployed kept watch over head.

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Even now, in this night/Among the ruins of the Post-Vergilian City/Where our past is a chaos of graves/and the barbed-wire stretches ahead/Into our future till it is lost to sight,/Our grief is not Greek: As we bury our dead/We know without knowing there is reason for what we bear,/That our hurt is not a desertion, that we are to pity/Neither ourselves nor our city...- W. H. Auden, Memorial for the City, June 1949

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As President Joe Biden withdrew U.S. forces from the Afghanistan War, studies and appraisals of the devastating human costs of the American-led war on terror were once again trotted out, laying bare the failures, scandals, and atrocities of multiple Republican and Democratic administrations. In the last two decades, so-called war on terror has run up a bill upwards of $8 trillion—and, according to some of the more conservative estimates out there, has a body count of almost 1 million dead. Читать дальше...

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They were out there, Roger Ailes always knew that. If he could find them and entice them, he would change television in America.

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On July 6, Deadline announced the forthcoming film Deltopia, which follows a group of Southern California teenagers over the course of 24 hours as they travel to Santa Barbara to attend “the biggest party of their lives.” The project, which boasts executive producer Olivia Newton-John and stars Luna Blaise, Madison Pettis, Charlie Gillespie, Will Peltz and Greer Grammer, is yet another coming-of-age narrative within the far-from-untapped genre of high schoolers attending college parties. Читать дальше...

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Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Former Secretary of Defense and Marine General Jim Mattis. Superstar lawyer David Boies. All three could soon be called to testify against Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose trial begins Wednesday with opening statements in San Jose federal court.

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Halfway through Impeachment, the latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology, an eager Linda Tripp sits among the remains of a holiday party in her living room. She’s waiting, it seems, for an elusive gift that never made it under the Christmas tree. Her eyes drill holes not into the fireplace, but instead the window.

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New York Fashion Week organizers often employ a key statistic to justify all the fuss: the biannual event brings 230,000 people to the city and raises $532 million in visitor spending per year. But as the concerns about the ongoing pandemic and Delta surge slash guest lists and gut seating arrangements, this number will surely decline.

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Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night post on Tuesday after an extended break, and wasted no time going after those like Alex Jones who have curiously taken livestock medicine rather than simply receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy compared COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions to “apartheid” on Tuesday night, even though the network that employs her currently has a system in place to track their employees’ vaccination status.

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RIO DE JANEIRO—Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro answered the far-right leader’s rallying cry on Tuesday and took to the streets in cities across Brazil, stoking fears of violence at the hands of his most radical fans and sowing uncertainty over the country’s democratic health.

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A beloved fire chief in Florida has died after a weeks-long battle against COVID-19, sending shockwaves through the community and devastating a fire department that has been ravaged by the virus.