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President Joe Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest last month, White House Physician Kevin C. O’Connor announced in a letter released Friday.

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Roughly 350,000 people evacuated during the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, leaving their lives and belongings behind to flee the worst nuclear disaster in history. Facets of residents’ lives left behind but often unmentioned are their pets, which evacuees were forbidden to retrieve. Despite the high levels of radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, many of these animals survived, and their descendants can be found in and around the region today. Читать дальше...

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new House Oversight Committee Chairman who lamented this week that President Joe Biden’s dead son was never prosecuted in a long-settled campaign financing case, has now tried to claim he said no such thing.

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The Navy SEAL who admitted to killing a Green Beret in Mali in 2017 has hired one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to help reduce his 10-year prison sentence.

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You got to admit: The idea of having a robotic limb is pretty cool. Think Luke Skywalker’s arm in Star Wars, or Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man. It’s a comforting thought that if we were to ever lose an arm, leg, or even our whole body, we’d just be able to swap it with a bionic replacement—one that might even improve on the original.

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As Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was signing a bill that criminalizes drag shows in the presence of minors, one of his constituents was arranging to post a high-school yearbook photo of him dressed as a girl on billboards across the state.

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It says a lot when Jon Stewart, who’s made a career of calling the media and politicians on their bullshit, says he’s found “hypocrisy of the highest order.” Those are, however, Stewart’s parting words after a typically heated debate with Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm during Friday’s The Problem with Jon Stewart.

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A prominent scientist who helped develop Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, was killed in his apartment in Moscow on Thursday, according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

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In their latest bid to protect former President Donald Trump at his upcoming rape trial, his lawyers finally explained why exactly New York City jurors shouldn’t be shown the infamous Access Hollywood tape where he described the joys of abusing the power of celebrity.

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TikTok is failing to protect young users from dangerous content promoting eating disorders, according to a new report, despite being warned by researchers that the posts were receiving millions of views.

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For decades, the Children of the Corn franchise has bounded through its ups, its downs, and some surprising guest stars—but if there’s one thing you can often rely on, it’s an excellent performance from a kid on the edge.

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When President Joe Biden called out Republicans recently during his State of the Union for trying to cut Social Security, GOP lawmakers were so offended they literally booed and jeered the president, challenging him to name a single Republican who was targeting Social Security.

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For weeks, one Twitter Blue subscriber has repeatedly challenged Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over the imprisonment of a U.S. military officer, firing off combative tweets and veiled threats demanding Japan return the soldier to American custody.

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Florida’s new House Bill 991 proposes a laundry list of legal changes that would make it easier for plaintiffs to bring and win defamation cases. It would also weaponize the law to allow the powerful to silence their critics.

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Every De La Soul album is an event. Put one on, even decades after its release, and it still barrels out of the speakers, bursting with surreal vignettes, psychedelic montages of sound, and erudite bars pitched halfway between a joke and a cosmic imperative. De La Soul records grab you by the ears through sheer strength of narrative and density of ideas, as funny as they are abstract. The Long Island trio’s 1989 debut 3 Feet High And Rising... Читать дальше...

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It’s pretty simple what word Fox News needs to drop after recent revelations made public thanks to a $1 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against the network.

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Not since Leonardo DiCaprio wrestled a bear to win an Oscar has ursine cinema been this hot. Last weekend, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear shredded box-office expectations with a $28.4 million opening—a high enough haul to grant us a follow-up about another drugged-up animal. Meth Gator is now reportedly on the way, and no, that is not a joke.

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It may be a contender for the most beautiful city in Europe, but Amsterdam is often anything but zen. Stepping out of the central rail station and along its canal-side streets, you’re often in a throng.

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The streaming landscape is drowning in shocking and revolting true-crime tales, and yet Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster is in a disgusting class by itself. The in-depth story of the famed fast-food spokesman’s rise to national prominence and fall into disgrace thanks to his sexual appetite for young children, Sam Miller’s three-episode ID series (premiering Mar. 6 on Discovery+) is the stuff of nightmares. The film is made all... Читать дальше...

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Some Oscar snubs linger long after the winner has been announced. It has been 15 years since Juno received four Academy Award nominations, with Diablo Cody taking home the Best Original Screenplay accolade. It has also been 15 years since Jennifer Garner should have been duking it out alongside eventual winner Tilda Swinton for the supporting actress statue. Her performance as hopeful adoptive mother Vanessa is an understated triumph.

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Florida State Sen. Jason Brodeur filed legislation this week that would effectively force any blogger that writes about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, or any member of the Florida Cabinet or Legislature, to file registration paperwork with the state—or face fines.