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Republican lawmakers were quick to expel two Black Democrats from the Tennessee House of Representatives Thursday after they protested against gun violence. However, their white colleague, who joined the protest, was narrowly spared, leading many critics to call the decision racially charged.

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Israel is calling up reservist soldiers to bolster its military readiness in response to rocket fire attacks from Gaza and Lebanon this week, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi announced Friday.

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Drake has a habit of trolling his fellow emcees. He’s also known to publicly shoot his shot with famous women. It’s appropriate then that the rapper’s latest single would sample the ex-spouse of one of his most illustrious foes, Kanye West. Now social media is wondering if we have another epic rap beef on our hands.

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Actor William H. Macy is in the weeds—or rather, the trees—at present, due to a complaint for damages filed against him by a neighbor late last month.

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A nasty feud broke out Friday between extreme right-wingers Laura Loomer and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sparked by a new report that said Donald Trump wants Loomer to join his waning 2024 presidential campaign.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas responded Friday to mounting criticism over his luxury vacations funded by a billionaire conservative mega-donor—stressing that the pair are long-time friends and the jaunts were simply “personal hospitality” rather than business-related.

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National Public Radio (NPR) refuses to tweet from its main account, which boasts over eight million followers, until Twitter chief Elon Musk removes a “false label” describing the news organization as “state-affiliated media.”

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was designed to peer into the farthest reaches of the known universe—as far back as to the earliest known galaxies to ever be formed.

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Another shocking twist emerged Friday in the baffling slayings of three Florida teens last week—the accused killers were also just kids themselves, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods revealed in a press conference.

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Star Wars fans were treated to some major news on Friday with the announcement of no less than three new live-action movies in the works.

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When Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) posted a photo of himself at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night—a show of solidarity for former President Donald Trump’s first post-indictment rally—the tweet quickly spread among Republican political insiders.

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Shortly before midnight on Jan. 9, a camera on the Canary Islands operated by the Spanish Meteor Network caught a spectacular fireball plunging into the Atlantic Ocean. Although it looked a lot like a meteor, it wasn’t. It was a rocket with a payload of nine satellites burning up after failing to reach orbit.

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When Republicans took the House majority in 2011, it took them barely a month to hold the first of what would be several dozen symbolic votes repealing the Affordable Care Act. Six years later, Republicans went all-in on repealing the Obama administration’s landmark health-care law immediately after taking full power in Washington.

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While there are more than a few people who are rooting for Donald Trump to go to jail for the charges brought forth in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, legal experts know a felony is really the best way to make that happen. Yet, right now, the former president has only been indicted by the state of New York.

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Love Is Blind has brought more than its fair share of chaotic couples to Netflix, but perhaps none have been quite as baffling as Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin.

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You know that distinctly melancholic feeling you get when Thanksgiving—or really, any food-centric holiday—is over? Everything has been gobbled up, and nothing but the shreds of an entire bounty remain. You’re regretting going for a third plate, because you’re sure that every single bite has sent your internal organs on a collision course, like a reverse Pangea. And, in your state of recovering gluttony, you realize that all of the excitement and mirth of the holiday is already fading away; soon... Читать дальше...

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After a grueling day in which she and two other Democratic state representatives faced trumped up expulsion votes, Rep. Gloria Johnson was asked why she was spared—while her fellow members of the ‘Tennessee Three’ were ultimately expelled from the state Assembly.

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Wherever Clarence Thomas goes, controversy seems to follow. And the Supreme Court Justice’s latest scandal has him traveling all around the world—all on one billionaire GOP mega-donor’s dime.

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The search for a missing six-year-old Texas boy is now a “death investigation” and police want to extradite his demon-obsessed mother, who allegedly starved him because she did not like changing his diapers.

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It was strange and also a thrill, as a longtime fan of BBC radio soap The Archers living in New York, to find the much-missed Denise in Brooklyn the other evening, radically transformed and yet in some ways still very Denise-ish. On air, Denise, efficient and direct administrator of a veterinary practice who we wish would just get it together with colleague Alistair, has been absent for some time; her son Paul has instead moved to the fictional English rural hamlet of Ambridge and... Читать дальше...