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The fallout from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secret hospital stay just keeps getting worse, with reports from CNN and Politico this weekend uncovering new details of Pentagon brass left out of the loop and blame games behind the scenes.

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Bill Ackman has toned down his vitriol toward former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism after Business Insider reported on Friday that his wife, Neri Oxman, copied portions of Wikipedia articles and scholarly documents in her doctoral dissertation at MIT. In a long-winded, 5,139-word post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night, Ackman wrote that it is “a near certainty that authors will miss some quotation marks and fail to properly cite or provide attribution... Читать дальше...

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Elon Musk hit back at the Wall Street Journal on Sunday after a bombshell report by the paper accused the billionaire of using illegal drugs and said executives at his companies were worried by his alleged fondness for cocaine, ecstasy, shrooms, ketamine, and LSD.

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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) made it clear on Sunday that she no longer sees the attack on the U.S. Capitol as “tragic,” adding that the real tragedy is how the “January 6 hostages” have been treated.

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On Saturday night, three years to the day after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol building, election objecting Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is the subject of an active police investigation into an alleged physical altercation with her ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, at a restaurant in her district Saturday night.

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Halle Bailey gave us a great new year’s surprise with an Instagram post on Saturday night announcing her son’s birth. The singer expressed gratitude for the newborn, Halo, and showed off a picture of herself and her boyfriend, rapper DDG, holding hands with the baby.

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Three months after Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter, and grandchild were killed by an Israeli airstrike, he is burying another child killed in an attack in Gaza.

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Fresh violence seized the West Bank on Sunday, leaving eight Palestinians and an Israeli policewoman dead in two clashes.

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Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open after being injured in his first tournament in a year.

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In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders.

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Nearly four years after the world shut down, global tourism is on the verge of returning to and overtaking pre-pandemic levels. Post-COVID “revenge travel” is in full swing. And while that’s great for vacationers seeking new experiences and people whose businesses and livelihoods depend on those travels, it also means the return of overtourism.

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The timing couldn’t be more perfect for a biography on tennis superstar Naomi Osaka. After a break starting in September 2022 and the birth of a daughter, the reinvigorated 26-year-old returned for her first tournament at the elite level this past week. Unfortunately, her big comeback ended in a second-round loss to three-time champion Karolina Pliskova in the Brisbane International, but Naomi was unfazed: “Ngl that was really fun though,” she wrote after the match. Читать дальше...

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A wealthy family in Vienna is seeking a tutor for their three young children, with an annual salary of $247,000 and at least nine weeks of vacation. They just have a few stipulations.

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Immigration is among the most wrenching political questions of the 2024 election. Yet, when Congress resumes debate on border security in January, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has an obligation to act on behalf of its base. That’s because the Black community is disproportionately impacted by the current policy on immigration—and the unpredictable border surges of “asylum seekers.”

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Former President Donald Trump sought to whitewash the deadly riot he spurred at the U.S. Capitol on the attack’s third anniversary and called for the release of those who committed violent crimes on his behalf.

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It’s a surreal experience to feel like you’re a part of someone else’s love story. That’s precisely why, since it first started screening at 2023’s Sundance Film Festival, audiences have reacted so viscerally to the documentary The Eternal Memory. As in: They cry. A lot.

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Iranian and Arab pundits, both radical and moderate (on state-run TV), seem to have reached a consensus that Israel is not winning in Gaza. Arab loyalists to Tehran go as far as to argue they see signs of mass Jewish emigration out of Israel. In their telling, all the land—from the river to the sea—will then become Palestine.

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The “QAnon Shaman” has done his time and now wants the government to return the horned fur headdress that made him the most recognizable figure of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Golden Globe-winning actress Taraji P. Henson and Grammy award-winning actress Danielle Brooks said they dealt with less-than-ideal working conditions while making The Color Purple—until Oprah intervened.

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The chair of the Michigan Republican Party was voted out Saturday by Republicans who accused her of fueling dysfunction within the party—but she claims the vote was “illegitimate” and refuses to acknowledge her ouster.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday broke his silence on his multi-day hospital stay that was kept secret from the public, the Pentagon press corps, lawmakers, and reportedly even senior White House officials including President Joe Biden.

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A 28-year-old man and four children aged 1, 2, 3, and 5 have been killed in a mobile home fire, West Virginia officials said Saturday.

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MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart wiped away tears Saturday as he thanked Michael Fanone, the former D.C. metro police officer who was beaten unconscious while fending off the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.