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In a seeming petty act of revenge, Elon Musk has stripped The New York Times of its verified checkmark just hours after vowing to do so in response to the newspaper’s insistence that it wouldn’t be paying for the blue badge.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is hopeful, an emotion surprisingly foreign to a man who’s achieved so much.

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Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson will run for president in 2024, he told ABC News on Sunday.

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Less than 72 hours before Donald Trump is reportedly scheduled to turn himself into the Manhattan DA’s office following his historic indictment, Saturday Night Live’s Trump (James Austin Johnson) opened the show’s April Fools’ Day episode by pushing one last money grab on his unsuspecting supporters: A bangers-only album of covers.

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“Weekend Update” co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che have a history of embarrassing each other on live television. But typically, they are both in on the joke. But on this week’s April Fools’ Day episode of Saturday Night Live, Che took things to the next level.

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After a glance at her perfectly curated Hinge profile—and a quick Google search—Adam thought that Kelly DuFord Williams was exactly what he needed after his divorce. The designer-clad 35-year-old seemed like a catch. Williams owned her own boutique law firm and had won accolades in local media.

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It could be a two- or three-person race, or potentially even more. Democratic Party leaders could coalesce around a candidate, or everyone could remain neutral. There might be an incumbent, there might not.

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Florida’s universal school choice law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed on Monday, will undoubtedly be lumped in with the state’s other controversial education policies.

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Admit it: The spooky breaths, feral cheers, raspy whispers, and garbled yells that comprise the score of Showtime’s smash hit Yellowjackets have gotten under your skin. It’s possibly the only music on TV that doesn’t sound like music at all.

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Zooey Zephyr, the first and so far only transgender woman elected to public office in Montana, has become familiar with surreal hallway encounters with her Republican colleagues in which they compliment the Democrat representative for her advocacy and “moving the needle” on trans issues. This is just after they have spoken in favor of, or voted for, a piece of anti-trans legislation, she told The Daily Beast. Читать дальше...

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For a Gen X teen, there are two TV parents who loom larger than any others: Jim and Cindy Walsh of Beverly Hills, 90210. Particularly in the show’s early high school years, Jim (James Eckhouse) and Cindy (Carol Potter) were, in fact, the only decent parents we ever saw.

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In September 2017, a very strange object streaked fast across the solar system and passed close to the sun before heading away. Shiny, oblong and potentially hundreds of feet in length, the object was unlike anything scientists had ever seen. Not exactly an asteroid. Not exactly a comet.

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Donald Trump supporters crashed a Long Island, New York, book signing event for Ron DeSantis on Saturday afternoon.

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John Wick may have just found a killer new character to take over the entire franchise. Her name? Akira, played by pop songstress Rina Sawayama.

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While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be retreating from his metaverse dreams, other entrepreneurs have their own visions for virtual worlds—including immersive media startup Everyrealm, which promotes members-only “ultra-luxury” spaces that will be sold as NFTs, and a “premier island community” on The Sandbox platform, called Fantasy Islands, where it sold a digital $650,000 superyacht that one writer once... Читать дальше...