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The leadership of the Michigan Republican Party seemed to collapse in on itself on Saturday as dueling factions differed on whether the state party president remained in office just over a month before the state’s Feb. 27 primary.

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Joyce Randolph, the last surviving star of The Honeymooners, has died at the age of 99, TMZ reported. She played Trixie Norton, wife of Art Carney’s Ed Norton, and neighbor of the Kramdens, played by Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, in the classic 1950s sitcom.

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A Danish data scientist touted by rightwing activist Christopher Rufo as an expert critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay collaborated with several scholars broadly criticized as eugenicists.

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Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng defended the publication’s reporting on scholar Neri Oxman on Sunday, describing the process taken to report the stories as “sound” and that Oxman was a “fair subject.”

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A day of royal drama and ceremony in Denmark culminated with a very public kiss between the newly crowned King Frederik X and wife Queen Mary following the official abdication of Frederik’s mother, Queen Margrethe II.

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Nikki Haley proclaimed herself a “hardcore conservative” last week as her opponents challenged her conservative bona fides. But it appears that, for a legion of likely Iowa caucusgoers, she may be the only gateway to the GOP.

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‘Serious and detailed thought’ behind queen’s death

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As former President Donald J. Trump re-enters the political spotlight and begins campaigning in Iowa and the early Republican states, all evidence points to him handily winning the nomination.

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What the MAGA world has been calling an outrageous injustice is really just constitutional karma.

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Billionaire Bill Ackman announced late Saturday that he’s backing longshot candidate Dean Phillips in the 2024 presidential election—and he’s putting down $1 million to help Phillips beat Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.

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(Warning: Spoilers for the first two episodes of The Traitors Season 2 ahead.)

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Ever since he burst onto the international scene with 1998’s Croupier, Clive Owen has proven himself to be the embodiment of suave, confident, laid-back cool. He once again exudes those qualities to compelling ends in Monsieur Spade, a six-episode affair from The Queen’s Gambit mastermind Scott Frank and Oz creator Tom Fontana in which he stars as an older version of Dashiell Hammett’s legendary private investigator Sam Spade.

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The bar was low for the Mean Girls musical movie. You’d think that might not be the case, given its predecessor’s place at the apex of teen movie fame. But seeing as almost all of the promotional material for the film has cleverly hidden that this remake is an adaptation of the Broadway musical (itself adapted from the 2004 movie), expectations are wisely being kept low.

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CORAL GABLES, Florida—Even under her fur-lined hood and bejeweled sunglasses, Bethenny Frankel’s annoyance is obvious as she talks to the camera about the latest trend to outrage the chronically online: the “Sephora Kid.”

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Donald Trump lied to the judge overseeing his defamation case against writer E. Jean Carroll about his reason for needing to push the trial back a week, according to Carroll’s attorney.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned late Saturday that no one will stop the country’s brutal offensive in Gaza, which has already killed over 23,000 people.

Reptile enthusiast and YouTuber Brian Barczyk has posted a heartbreaking farewell video as he enters hospice care in the final stage of his battle with pancreatic cancer. In his sign-off, Barczyk addressed his 5.3 million subscribers, known as the Reptile Army, speaking softly and through labored breathing as he thanked them for supporting his work and his Michigan reptile zoo.

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Ellen Degeneres has re-homed one of her chickens in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s chicken coop.