Hurricane Michael, the third most intense storm on record to make landfall in the U.S., has caused widespread destruction, turning places like Mexico Beach, Florida, into a hellscape of broken homes and overturned cars. It will be a while before we learn the full extent of the damage — and …
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A thousand years from now, when some vaguely human-like machine digs through the ashes of the Twenty-Firstcentury and tries to figure out what happened to those once-thriving animals called Homo sapiens, it may be confused about why an intelligent species that could build rockets and write songs like “Imagine” couldn’t …
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Update 6:32 PM: President Trump has announced that he likes Taylor Swift‘s music “about 25 percent less now, OK?” (He added that the pop star “doesn’t know anything about” Blackburn.) Original post below. *** Taylor Swift — who started her career in country music three years after the Dixie Chicks …
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“I’m in a state that does not look to women to lead,” Paulette Jordan says. Not lately, at least. “There was a whole legacy of women leaders who were chiefs,” says the former Idaho state representative, present candidate for governor and member of the Coeur d’Alene people. “It’s this line …
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It wasn’t supposed to happen. Ayanna Pressley trailed Rep. Joe Capuano by 13 percentage points in the last poll before Tuesday’s Democratic primary to represent Massachusetts’s 7th district in Congress. When Capuano, a 10-term incumbent, conceded an hour after the polls closed, he was trailing Pressley by 18 points. Because …
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Hours after calling legendary Washington Post reporter and current CNN contributor Carl Bernstein a “degenerate fool,” President Trump roused himself out of bed Thursday to levy another series of unhinged attacks against the media. Beginning just before 7 a.m., the president tweeted a whopping 10 times over the next three …
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Legendary senator John McCain has died after a nearly year-long bout with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 81. “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on 25th August 2018,”his family said in a statement. “With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their …
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Hours after his former confidantsMichael Cohen and Paul Manafort were cut down by the strong arm of the law, President Trump took the stage in front of a group of supporters in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump spoke for well over an hour, although he didn’t spend as much time addressing …
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On Monday afternoon, Craig Clements was one of the first outsiders allowed in to see what he calls “the vortex zone” at the Carr fire near Redding, California — a city of about 100,000 people, not far from the Oregon border. “It was pretty wild,” Clements, director of the Fire …
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The traveling sad-clown show that is latter-day Rudy Giuliani appeared on cable news Monday morning to begin another work week with a torrent of laughable claims and theories about the federal investigation closing in on his client, President Donald Trump. The always-risible, factually-suspect “there-was-no-collusion” mantra chanted by the president’s many …
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