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Musician Cat Janice, who went viral for her pop anthem released from a hospice bed, passed away on Wednesday morning. She died at her childhood home in Annandale, Virginia, according to her brother William Ipsan. She was 31.

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The Pentagon has quickly walked back an assertion Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made before the House Armed Services Committee that “over 25,000” women and children have been killed in Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza.

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A New Jersey diner has placed the booth where Tony Soprano was last seen in The Sopranos’ finale up for auction on eBay, asking super-fans to bid into the tens of thousands to bring home the iconic piece of memorabilia.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a new law into effect that will allow the grand jury testimony in a 2006 hearing against Jeffrey Epstein to be released for the first time, giving the public a window into the earliest accusations against him.

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There are no suspects in the murder of a 23-year-old Pennsylvania Amish woman who was six months pregnant, state police said Wednesday.

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A month after Jimmy Finkelstein’s quixotic media startup The Messenger crashed and burned, suddenly leaving hundreds jobless, three business-side executives are suing the media mogul’s “centrist” news site for welching on the hefty severance packages promised to them.

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The months of fruitless effort by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee to unearth evidence supporting an impeachment of President Joe Biden culminated on Wednesday in their long sought-after deposition of the president’s only surviving son, Hunter Biden.

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A diversity and equity leader at Columbia University, who pursued a doctorate degree from Iowa State University in 2021, has been accused of plagiarizing over 30 authors—and the publicly-edited website Wikipedia—in his dissertation.

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A St. Louis church has been condemned by city authorities after an injured, bound woman told cops over the weekend she’d been held captive there.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated that it will weigh in on former President Donald Trump’s sweeping claims that he is immune from prosecution for the events surrounding the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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One of the victims of a Colorado crime spree allegedly carried out by the teenage son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and others says her 11-year-old daughter was left feeling scared by the ordeal.

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Drake’s co-headlining tour with J. Cole rolled into Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday night, but the rapper’s heart was still in St. Louis, Missouri, where two concertgoers were killed earlier this month.

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Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani stunned fans by offering a rare glimpse into his private life: He’s married.

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Royal sources told The Daily Beast it was “very much business as usual” for Prince William Thursday, as he made a high-profile visit to a London synagogue following a torrid week of speculation on the subject of Kate Middleton’s health.

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Oprah Winfrey is leaving the board of WeightWatchers, the company announced Wednesday, after she acknowledged using weight-loss drugs.

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At least 104 people were killed and hundreds injured in Gaza on Thursday after the Israeli military fired on crowds of Palestinians waiting for food aid, according to the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry.

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A school in Alabama is closed Thursday after almost 800 students were absent amid an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness that is being investigated by public health officials.

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William Albert “Billy Jack” Haynes Jr., a former professional wrestler, was charged with murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting of his wife, authorities said.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on Wednesday criticized trolls targeting Lauren Boebert after the MAGA congresswoman’s son was arrested for an alleged crime spree in Colorado.

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In the chaotic minutes following Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would step down as Republican Senate leader, reporters approached Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) in the Capitol to ask who he wanted to replace McConnell.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has once again found himself in a familiar position: in trouble.

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This week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrated yet again why theirs is the foreign policy world’s worst marriage.

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The New Negro Movement was a celebration of culture across the African diaspora in the early decades of the 20th century. In the U.S., the period was marked by Black families relocating to mostly Northern and Western cities following World War I. After serving overseas, Black men realized they received a different sense of respect while abroad, respect that was not reciprocated in the Jim Crow South. So, families packed up and searched for new opportunities. Читать дальше...

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