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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace continually grilled House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Sunday over the lawmaker’s refusal to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election fairly.

CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday repeatedly confronted Facebook executive Nick Clegg over the social-media giant’s role in spreading dangerous misinformation ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

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When Elizabeth I’s scientific adviser and “philosopher” John Dee died in 1609 at the age of 81 he left behind a trove of unusual artifacts. Among them was his speculum, a hand mirror made of polished obsidian (volcanic glass), that was also known as “the Devil’s Looking-Glass.” This mystical device for talking to the dead was coveted by his peers and later generations; it was acquired by politician and writer Horace Walpole before winding its way into the British Museum, where it resides today. Читать дальше...

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Of the over 200 million recorded survivors of SARS-CoV-2 infection, many millions suffered in an ICU for weeks and months before being discharged. Their return home, often the result of cutting-edge medical care, is cause for celebration. And yet many of these patients are now living with massive and likely life-long disabilities that include dementia-like cognitive impairment, PTSD, depression, and muscle and nerve disease.

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COVID brought about many changes to American life, including what we like to call the Great Hamptons Migration of 2020. As many Manhattan dwellers fled the concrete streets for full-time living on Long Island’s sandy shores, costs skyrocketed and inventory got a little tight. But there’s at least one gem still up for grabs: this $4.25 million modern home that could easily double as a very fashionable art gallery.

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One year after beginning production on LuLaRich, the docuseries premiered last month on Amazon Prime Video to 200 million Prime members in over 200 countries and territories. As a woman, I have had the honor of telling stories about courageous women like Venida Browder, Sybrina Fulton, and Annie Schneider. Those stories also reached millions of people and they highlighted not just these women, but the systems that surrounded them. In LuLaRich, employed a similar approach—but... Читать дальше...

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If there’s anything the many compounding crises of the last 19 months have taught me, it’s that nothing picks me out of our end-times doldrums quite like a $3 plastic pumpkin can. Before the pandemic, I believed the people who elbowed their way through Target’s seasonal decor section to buy “You’ve been ghosted” stickers and fake glitter gourds had a deep sickness. But now, I am one of them.

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Over the years, director Ry Russo-Young has explored the custody battle that upended her childhood through multiple mediums—including a play inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, in which she and both her mothers, Robin Young and Sandy Russo, are the cloaked damsels and her mothers’ sperm donor, Tom Steel, is the wolf.

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“Another outside possibility is that, faced with a major crisis, the federation’s leaders will betray their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the primary adhesive holding the union together,” Colin Woodard wrote in the epilogue to his prescient 2011 book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Regional Cultures in North America.

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Shiva Bagheri was holding a sign reading “Keep America Free” with her left hand as she pointed with her right hand at a woman who was walking with a young boy in a procession to mark National Walk to School Day last week.

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Former President Donald Trump tried so hard to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin while in office.

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Heavyweight trilogies are a rarity but last night at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas, we were treated to a big boy triptych, this time between the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champ Tyson Fury aka the “Gypsy King” (31-0-1, 22 knockouts) and Deontay Wilder (42-2-1, 41 knockouts) aka the “Bronze Bomber.”

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Word on the internet is that Kanye West had been “quietly advising” estranged wife Kim Kardashian West ahead of her big Saturday Night Live debut this week. But the biggest influence on her monologue may have been the late Norm Macdonald.