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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) went on Fox News Sunday and took an apparent swipe at Fox News star Tucker Carlson, claiming that anyone who spreads “false flag” conspiracies about the Jan. 6 insurrection is “un-American” and “dangerous.”

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CNN anchor Dana Bash directly asked Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Sunday morning whether the Democratic Party had become “too woke,” citing veteran Democratic strategist James Carville’s complaints about recent GOP election gains.

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During the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Nuclear fallout rained down on inhabitants of atolls more than 100 miles away, including Rongelap.

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Last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 knockouts) stopped the IBF super-middleweight champion Caleb Plant (21-1, 12 knockouts). Going into the mega-bout, “Canelo” whose nickname is a reference to his cinnamon-colored hair, owned the WBA, WBC, and WBO belts but after defeating Plant, he became the first undisputed super-middleweight champion in history.

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Can you imagine anything better than living in the land of of Dionysus? Waking up for a gorgeous sunrise stroll among the vines, spending your afternoons stomping grapes à la Lucy Ricardo, and spending your evenings feasting around a table loaded with the best of last year’s vintage and the best of your crew. At the center of this dream is the Triple Barn House, a $3 million designer home that has all the private feels of a countryside retreat, but is just a short drive away from downtown Sonoma. Читать дальше...

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As an emerging industry with sky-high revenue projections, lofty social-justice promises, and ground rules currently being written from scratch, no business in America prompts ready comparisons to Silicon Valley like legal cannabis.

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One year. That’s what I told myself. It didn’t matter if I liked it. I didn’t like taking cold showers, eating 25-cent gas station burritos that smelled like vomit, or sleeping on concrete in a sleeping bag either. I survived those things—like other poor kids who find the unimaginable easily imaginable.

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Where and why has North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s older half-brother, Kim Jong Chul, disappeared? Considering the persistent doubts about the health of Kim Jong Un and his own habit of vanishing for weeks at a time—that question assumes some urgency.

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The Donald Trump presidency was a disgraceful disaster, what with all the grifting and colluding and treason and insurrection. Yet it was also an embarrassment of comedic riches, most of it due to Trump and company’s preternatural ability to say and do the dumbest and most ludicrous things imaginable. Sitting at a tiny desk. Complaining about toilets. Promoting bleach as a COVID cure. Remarking that George Washington “took over airports” during the Revolutionary War. Suggesting we nuke hurricanes. Читать дальше...

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More than a year after Fox News fired him over complaints about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace,” Ed Henry has quietly returned to right-wing media, landing at a fringe outlet with ties to Steve Bannon.

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Linda Hirschman is a veteran lawyer, and she’s confident that the Texas anti-abortion law, SB8, directly challenged the power of the federal court system—and that may be pro-choice activists’ saving grace.

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Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” had a lot of ground to cover this week—especially given that Ice Cube, a celebrity whom Kenan Thompson has perfectly impersonated before, lost out on a $9 million acting gig in the Sony comedy Oh Hell No! because he refused to get vaccinated. (“My loss? Your loss!” he insists. “Oh Hell No! was gonna feature the greatest comedy duo of all time—Ice Cube, Jack Black.”)

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Ego Nwodim has been impersonating Dionne Warwick on Saturday Night Live’s its recurring Dionne Warwick Talk Show, but this week’s audience finally got to see the real legend in the flesh. The legendary singer and TV host, whose Twitter account is one of the site’s pure delights, has been lobbying to make her way onto the show for a little while now—and it’s only fitting that she marked her debut with a serenade.

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The discourses... they’re converging! We all knew Saturday Night Live was bound to address Aaron Rodgers’ “woke mob” anti-vaxx meltdown, and it turns out their cast member of choice was none other than the one whose hotness is making headlines once again. On Saturday night, Davidson channeled the NFL player in a sit-down with SNL’s “Jeanine Pirro,” Cecily Strong.

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A concert pianist who studied at the nation’s most prestigious music school described himself as “on a mission to fill the world with the music of his favorite composer.” But that mission was cut short when he ended up allegedly stabbing a woman death in what a South Carolina sheriff called “a brutal crime scene.”

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The first victims of the eight who died Friday at Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston were identified Saturday afternoon.

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The horror and helplessness that unfolded at the Astroworld festival was captured in a graphic social media post by a young woman who was trapped in the deadly crush, barely escaped, and tried to get help—only to have her pleas to stop the music go ignored.

“I saw terror in every eye that I met,” Seanna McCarty wrote on Instagram after eight people were killed while Travis Scott performed on a Houston stage Friday night.

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Travis Scott’s festival performance on Friday night wasn’t shut down for a full 40 minutes after police declared it a “mass casualty event” and asked promoters to pull the plug, according to a timeline provided by officials Saturday afternoon.