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If I had to choose one pair of shoes I can’t live without, it would definitely be Everlane's Italian Leather Glove Shoe. Aside from the number of compliments I get about them, they’re seriously cozy AF. I started off with the cream color and have slowly worked my way up to the black and tan colors. In total, there are seven neutral colors to choose from (they match *everything*) and five limited-edition hues that are more bold and colorful.

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An organizer of the white supremacist Unite The Right rally privately discussed raising an army, attacking Jewish people, and murdering a colleague in the movement, a jury heard this week.

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Phoenix Suns majority owner Robert Sarver has long displayed shockingly insensitive racist and misogynist tendencies, according to current and former employees who say they have witnessed it since Sarver bought the team in 2004.

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MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA—The late cult leader Kevin Smith had instructed one of his followers, 37-year-old Andre Ruddock, to decapitate a female church member after ordering Ruddock to slash her throat, according to an unnamed witness to the “human sacrifice” killings that took place in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Church in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Oct. 17.

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It’s sort of a high holiday for astronomers around the world. Every 10 years, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine releases something called the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. It lays out the biggest priorities that astronomers ought to focus on for the following decade. The latest report, released Thursday and coming in at over 500 pages, makes plenty of recommendations, but there’s one that sticks out beyond the others: Find another planet that could host life. Читать дальше...

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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, took to Twitter to needle Jeff Bezos—again.

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A Texas real estate agent who swore she wouldn’t be jailed over her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been sentenced to 60 days in prison.

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Conservative cable network Newsmax has sidelined White House correspondent Emerald Robinson after she made the utterly bonkers claim that COVID-19 vaccines contain a “bioluminescent” tracker linked to the Devil.

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The primary researcher on the so-called Steele dossier—a 2016 compilation of raw intelligence into potential coordination between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian government officials to help him win the election—was arrested Thursday by federal agents.

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A week before the Virginia governor’s race, President Joe Biden came to Arlington to rally for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. He dutifully ticked through McAuliffe’s record, mentioned McAuliffe’s campaign promises, and then did what he really came to do: talk about Donald Trump.

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In his hagiography The Last Dance, Michael Jordan made a statement that’s stuck in Scottie Pippen’s craw. “‘His best teammate of all time,’ he called me,” Pippen writes in an excerpt of his new book. “He couldn’t have been more condescending if he tried. On second thought, I could believe my eyes. I spent a lot of time around the man. I knew what made him tick. How naïve I was to expect anything else.”

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JERUSALEM—A Jerusalem judge says that Eliezer Berland, one of Israel’s most infamous cult leaders, who repeatedly slipped through the hands of law enforcement by fleeing the country and securing reduced jail sentences through plea deals, has implicated himself in two gory unsolved murders dating back to 1986.

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When Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) left Congress in 2017—with the eight-term lawmaker destined for a D.C. lobbying gig—he had something at his disposal that most people don’t: a campaign bank account.

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Padma Lakshmi has been talking about Top Chef for 15 years. And while that popular cooking competition show is still very close to her heart, she is ready to focus on something new.

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President Biden will put his war on COVID-19 and the reputation of his presidency on the line when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) releases a Temporary Emergency Standard requiring all large businesses to mandate vaccinations or regular testing among all their employees. The FDA also just authorized, and the CDC recommended, pediatric vaccines for children ages 5 to 11, triggering a massive push to vaccinate all school children.

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Kevin Pearson used to face a hard choice any time he tried to get clean from heroin and found himself approaching a painful withdrawal: He could try to get on Suboxone or methadone, two of the medications that keep opioid users from craving drugs or withdrawing under what’s called medically assisted treatment (MAT); or he could go back to using illicit drugs. The choice might seem easy to someone who didn’t know better. Why wouldn’t Pearson—or... Читать дальше...

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Yesterday it was revealed that Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the NFC-leading 7-1 Green Bay Packers and the reigning NFL MVP, has been stricken by COVID-19. It was also sort-of revealed that Rogers has not been vaccinated against COVID, despite being a traveling athlete who is in close proximity to a bunch of people all the time.

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On Wednesday night, Late Night host Seth Meyers took aim at the Beltway insiders “ludicrously blaming progressives for the results” in Virginia, where Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost to Trumpian Republican Glenn Youngkin in the gubernatorial election.

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Last year, America saw some of the largest police reform protests in its history. These demonstrations called attention to real abuses and helped provide the political capital necessary for reforms from coast to coast.

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For the better part of a year, Fox News has obsessively warned its viewers about the dangers of critical race theory being taught in their children’s schools, a strategy that may have paid off in GOP statewide election victories in Virginia on Tuesday.

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On one level, the wonderful Blair Brown, Edie Falco, and Marin Ireland play grandmother Claudette, daughter Charley, and grand-daughter Tessa in Simon Stephens’ delicately affecting play Morning Sun, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, which opens tonight at City Center.

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Amazon's early Black Friday sale officially launched this week, which means you can find stellar deals on par with Black Friday and Cyber Monday markdowns before Thanksgiving—and we stumbled upon an epic deal you'll want to snag ASAP. Oster's Electric Roaster Oven is currently marked down 42 percent off, so you may want to grab this Thanksgiving side-kick to ensue a stress-free cooking day and a perfectly-cooked turkey.