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Policy be damned. It’s all about the vibes. The feels.

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The latest plot twist in the Alex Murdaugh saga sounds ripped from a script for Law & Order: A court clerk is accused of convincing the jury in an ex-lawyer’s trial that he murdered his wife and son to allegedly boost her upcoming book’s sales.

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In late 2022, Eli Regalado, an online preacher and self-declared prophet, was confronted with a worldly problem: He owed employees at his Colorado marketing firm back pay, and they were starting to grumble.

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Neville Hewitt, No. 43 on the NFL’s Houston Texans, was preparing for last Saturday’s playoff against the Baltimore Ravens when he received a two- word Instagram message from his mother.

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In recent weeks, the U.S. has conducted at least nine rounds of airstrikes on Houthi military positions in Yemen in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. However, it is not immediately clear what these strikes ultimately hope to accomplish. Undeterred by threats of further retaliation, the Houthis have not only continued their attacks, but expanded their scope to target U.S.-owned vessels in the Gulf of Aden.

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In 1829, James Madison predicted the size of America’s population in 1930. Dividing his estimate by the number of acres of arable land, he drew an unsettling conclusion: “there will, in a century or a little more, be nearly as crowded a population in the United States as in Great Britain or France.” His specific estimates proved inaccurate, but the basic point was sound. As the population rose, the country would eventually run out of land. Читать дальше...

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Like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift before him, Lil Nas X has joined the camp of pop stars releasing tour-centric movies. His entry, however—Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, which premieres Saturday night on HBO—is lighter on actual concert footage, and instead uses the backdrop of his first-ever headlining tour to track the ongoing evolution of the artist, and the person, Lil Nas X wants to be.

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Malia Obama might be the daughter of a former world leader, but she’s keeping things subtle with her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival. For one thing, she’s dropped the “Obama” from her name to go by “Malia Ann.” Also, if you were expecting some kind of political thriller, or a Lady Bird-like coming-of-age piece about a young woman growing up in a very big, white house, think again.

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A beleaguered and broke Rudy Giuliani listed a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J. Trump” in bankruptcy filings submitted to court Friday.

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A prominent attorney known for representing stars like Snoop Dogg and Tory Lanez has pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court for leaking evidence to reporters in the federal conspiracy case against Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michél.

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Fresh from failing miserably in an attempt to become our commander-in-chief, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday grandly declared himself ready to deploy his very own army to the southern border—and help the state of Texas defy our current president.

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A convoy of Jesus-loving truckers will converge on the southern border next week in a battle to stop what they say is a migrant “invasion,” as Texas remains locked in a standoff with the feds over razor wire it installed along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass.

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When the $83.3 million verdict in the defamation trial against Donald Trump came in late Friday afternoon, the immediate reaction on Fox News was that the amount was “staggering,” “enormous,” and “unprecedented.”

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A 2-year-old living in the home of a former Massachusetts police lieutenant who was arrested last month on child rape charges was found unresponsive on Thursday in the jailed former officer’s Winthrop home and died after being rushed to the hospital, according to authorities.

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A couple who worked as chauffeurs for the publishing giant Win McCormack have been accused this week of swindling their boss out of $34 million over the last seven years, a scheme federal prosecutors described as being a “colossal heist” to The Oregonian.

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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley unleashed on the GOP frontrunner on Friday, calling Donald Trump “totally unhinged” while taking aim at the Republican National Committee for briefly considering a resolution to officially name Trump the presumptive nominee.

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Just minutes after being ordered by a jury to cough up $83.3 million to pay his rape accuser on Friday, Donald Trump threw a tantrum on social media blaming President Joe Biden for the verdict.

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Donald Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83 million on Friday, after a jury last May said Trump sexually assaulted Carroll decades ago and a new jury on Friday decided only a massive sum close to nine-figures would stop Trump from continuing to defame the journalist about the assault.

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Rap-hating conservative pundit Ben Shapiro is now a rapper.

Shapiro, the founder of right-wing media empire The Daily Wire, teamed up with MAGA rapper Tom MacDonald—yes, MAGA rap is a real genre—on the lib-owning track “Facts,” which debuted Friday. Much like the rest of MacDonald’s oeuvre, this latest song centers on well-worn right-wing culture war talking points.

This time around, though, there’s the extra bonus of Shapiro—who has long complained that rap is not a real art form—busting out his own rhymes. Читать дальше...