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On Thursday, former President and now-2024 candidate Donald Trump announced his next big pursuit: NFTs of himself, cheaply superimposed onto valorous figures like Superman or astronauts.

Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are up nearly 60 percent since Thanksgiving. And in a startling twist, for the first time since the advent of Covid vaccines, the majority of those dying of the disease have been vaccinated.

Sometimes the internet is a wonderful place. It looks like someone or some users at Dune.com, a website that allows users to make their own analytical tools, have created a real time tracker of former President Donald Trump’s NFT sales. 

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to let Puerto Rico hold its first-ever binding referendum on whether to gain independence or become the 51st U.S. state.

Donald Trump unveiled a series of digital trading cards of his face, his first foray into NFTs, on Thursday, just in time for the holidays.

A 48-year-old Washington state man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly made threats against multiple members of Congress.

Donald Trump would be the preferred Republican presidential nominee in a multicandidate race, a poll published Thursday by NPR found, a sobering revelation after weeks of predictions that Trump isn’t popular enough to win the next election.

Last Thursday, when Senator Kyrsten Sinema told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that she was leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent, she very deliberately made life more difficult for congressional Democrats. Her Senate colleagues, for starters. But maybe none more so than Congressman Ruben Gallego. That’s because for months the Arizona Democrat has been floating the possibility that he would challenge the Democratic senator in 2024, offering Arizona voters a less chaotic... Читать дальше...

In a late-November conversation on Twitter, Elon Musk confessed that he “reluctantly” voted for Biden over Trump in 2020 and that his “preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist.” When asked point-blank if “sensible and centrist” meant that he might support Ron DeSantis, the then-richest man in the world confirmed that he will be backing the Florida governor, before adding “but Twitter as a platform must be fair to all.”

The Supreme Court will now hear two cases about President Joe Biden’s student-loan debt relief order next year. Both cases hope to end the current program, which has been blocked by lower courts before it can go into effect. While the justices might ultimately rule in favor of the order, the addition of the second case this week might offer them a more insincere way to nix it.

There’s no other way of putting it: Qatar got the World Cup final it wanted. On Sunday, before tens of thousands of spectators in Doha—and hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, around the globe—two of the tournament’s best teams, Argentina and France, will face off. Not only that: The final brings together Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, in a match that will serve as a symbolic handoff—the greatest player of a fading generation playing against the greatest of the rising one.

The Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet may have been suspended Wednesday, but that won’t stop the person running it.

While Democrats navigate a newly insecure 51-49 Senate, with Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s recent switch to independent, it’s worth revisiting how close they were to maintaining a majority in the House.