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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a baffling comparison of Israel’s war on Gaza to the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, telling Israel to “do whatever you have to do” to finish the military campaign.

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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) tried to push back on Sunday against the idea that Donald Trump could be antisemitic—forgetting that the ex-president’s associations with known antisemites were as recent as 18 months ago.

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Mystery over Harry’s royal residence request

The controversy around Prince Harry’s visit to the U.K. earlier this week—and being apparently iced out by his family—has become a war of words and interpretations, the U.K. Sunday Times reports. The paper says Harry asked if he could stay in a royal residence when he was in the U.K. His father King Charles is said to have agreed to the request, but then Harry ended up staying in a hotel for three days.

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You might recognize Hollywood bigwig Chuck Pacheco as a member of Leonardo DiCaprio’s so-called Wolf Pack, or, as it is alternatively known, the “Pussy Posse.”

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Sarah Sherman’s been making a habit of dressing up in animal costumes on “Weekend Update” lately, and the recent news—that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a parasitic worm in his brain in 2010—gave her yet another big opportunity. She came out to the “Update” desk in an elaborate Dune-ish worm costume, and declared herself to be a huge fan of the independent presidential candidate.

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The last time Maya Rudolph hosted Saturday Night Live in March 2021, the show struck gold with one simple comedic premise: what if the seemingly unflappable musician Beyoncé had to go on Hot Ones? The internet interview show, where celebrity guests have to eat increasingly spicy chicken wings between each question, was a viral success because it brought out an unpredictable human side in its larger-than-life guests.

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A convicted felon who was locked up in a U.S. prison for money-laundering is pulling the strings behind a sweeping Kremlin influence operation with ties to Russian intelligence, The Daily Beast has learned.

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Nikki Glaser has been having some dark thoughts recently. For one, she’s pissed that all of her friends are pregnant. Those “bundles of joy” aren’t making her feel all that joyful.

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Under Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies—who has returned to the show for the first time since 2010, in order to helm its new Disney+ reboot—the British sci-fi classic is perhaps the most optimistic show on television. The Doctor’s companions, all of whom are good, loving people, are thrilled to go along for the ride. The villains, humanoid, monster, and robot alike, delight viewers as they try to torment our heroes. And through it all, the good Doctor, who never wields a gun, wins.

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The Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis finds himself caught in a legal endgame centered on a scandal that seems never to go away, the industrial-scale hacking practiced in the newsrooms of Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids from the mid-1990s until it was exposed in 2011.

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Former President Donald Trump put himself on shuffle and played the hits Saturday night at his rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.

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Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher.

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Swedish police in Malmö on Saturday for attending a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Eurovision venue.

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Classes may be over but student protests showed no signs of stopping this weekend as hundreds of graduates from California to Virginia continued to demonstrate against Israel’s war in Gaza, as it appears poised to enter its most deadly stage.

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