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Thursday marked a year anniversary since an Indigenous woman in Washington state went to visit a friend and was never seen again— and federal authorities are desperate for help in finding her.

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During a trip to Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, Annie Farmer was frozen in fear.

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As Nicki Minaj continues to battle Jennifer Hough’s witness intimidation suit in court, it appears a media strategy is taking shape—and Hough’s attorneys are hitting back against what they claim is misleading reporting.

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A college student in Florida faces a slew of charges after tipsters informed authorities that he was planning to “enact a Columbine” on campus, referring to the 1999 Colorado school shooting that killed 15, Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said at a news conference.

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Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngô has been sued in federal court by two Portland-based photojournalists, alleging he violated copyright law.

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Early-onset colorectal cancer incidence among the young, defined as those under age 50, has been rising globally since the early 1990s. Rates for colon and rectal cancers are expected to increase by 90 percent and 124 percent, respectively, by 2030.

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The family of Glenn Foster Jr., the former defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints who died Monday in Alabama police custody, has been demanding answers about his death. Now they’ve retained the highest-profile civil rights attorney in America to get them.

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The discovery this past January of Comet C/2021 A1, better known as Comet Leonard, was a startling but welcome find: Comet Leonard was heading in our direction on its way around the sun, which meant that by years’ end it would be a bright, visible rock streaking through the sky. There were suspicions that Leonard would easily be the brightest object to fly past us this year, and likely visible by the naked eye.

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In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that abortion providers in Texas may challenge S.B. 8, the state’s extreme “heartbeat bill,” by suing certain state licensing officials in federal court.

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While publicists aren’t generally known for their threatening demeanor, Kanye West’s right-hand woman sent his to the home of a 62-year-old Georgia election official to threaten her into falsely confessing to bogus charges of election tampering in the days before Jan. 6.

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The FBI is on alert after a number of local media outlets in Albany, New York, received disturbing letters from someone purporting to be the “Chinese Zodiac Killer.”

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London High Court has ruled that Julian Assange should be extradited to face espionage charges—and a potentially lengthy prison sentence—in the U.S.

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After challenging shifts in a packed Colorado emergency room, Dr. Will McNitt goes on Twitter to combat the misinformation that is perpetuating a pandemic in which lies translate into deaths.

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Among the photographs published this week as part of prosecution evidence in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, one image will have sent icy tentacles of dread shooting around the hearts of senior courtiers at Buckingham Palace.

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New York’s mayor-elect, Eric Adams, will have to navigate a number of problems when he is sworn in on Jan. 1, including the city’s crime rate and COVID recovery efforts, but an issue that has privately concerned some advisers is his relationship with a controversial Trump-connected PR executive who has inserted himself into the ex-cop’s inner circle.

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Like a lot of Georgia Republicans, Karynn Walker reacted with a resigned sigh to the latest turn of her state’s seemingly never-ending GOP civil war.

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The Witcher’s first season was rich with violence, spells, monsters, and intricate political intrigue, yet what truly energized its fantasy-land mayhem and mystery were its more colorful touches: a plethora of skin, sex, swearing, and an occasionally shirtless Henry Cavill responding to just about every dire situation with a curt grunt and/or a fed-up F-bomb. Thus, it’s somewhat puzzling that the Netflix series’ highly anticipated return (Dec. 17) features plenty of the former qualities but almost none of the latter... Читать дальше...

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The problem with being a president who promises to clean things up after a villainous predecessor is that the press corps treats you like a superhero—which sounds like a good thing until you realize that just means you get blamed for things you can’t control.

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When I first saw that Javier Bardem had been cast as Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, I groaned. When I heard Bardem’s “Cuban” accent in the trailer (on the couple of words he got to speak), I had to laugh. And when I finally saw him in the movie, I felt my late abuelo’s favorite refrains rattling around deep in my soul: ¡Qué barbaridad!

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The Biden administration just doubled down on its support of racially-conscious university admissions. In a 23-page brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice endorsed Harvard University’s stance on affirmative action and asked the high court to decline to take up a constitutional and statutory challenge to the school’s policies.

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Things are even more abnormal than usual in the new episode of The New Abnormal. Hosts Molly Jong Fast and Andy Levy try to wrap their heads around the idea that maybe Mike Pence, of all people, saved the country.

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Can you imagine if the only major media company in the United States was Fox News? That’s basically what media is in Russia, The Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis, who also founded Russian Media Monitor, tells Molly Jong-Fast on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal.

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Longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams signed off from his final MSNBC broadcast on Thursday night, lamenting “the darkness” that’s engulfed America and saying his “biggest worry is for my country.”

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Fox News hosts spent the past 24 hours going wall-to-wall with outrage over the network’s Midtown Christmas tree, which was set on fire Wednesday night by an apparently mentally ill homeless man. So naturally, Jimmy Kimmel spent a good portion of his monologue Thursday night making fun of their reaction.

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On the basis that Christmas is near, presents must be considered, joy should be taken wherever it can be found in this fraught world, and direct guidance is often the most welcome, here it is: book ticket or tickets for Company on Broadway (booking to June 26, 2022) right now. Stop what you are doing. Right now. Stephen Sondheim’s musical, with a book by George Furth, opens tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and is the best tribute imaginable to Sondheim himself (along with... Читать дальше...