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The right-wing think tank has been pushing misinformation about voting into social media feeds. The Georgia secretary of state’s office called one video “a stunt.”In July, two men went door to door at a sprawling apartment complex in Norcross, Ga., an Atlanta suburb that is a hub for the region’s fast-growing Latino population, asking residents if they were U.S. citizens and whether they were registered to vote. Speaking in Spanish, often peeking from behind half-closed doors, seven people told the men that they were not citizens but that they were registered to vote. Although the two men claimed to represent...

In this sense, Ronald must be shown making bedroom eyes at Nancy (Penelope Ann Miller) after she professes how important family is to her, if only to show that Reagan’s countless presidential addresses are entirely rooted in truth—that he really did wholeheartedly believe that the responsibility for society’s welfare rested on individual families (and not on the embedded liberal governmental policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson). Forget about the rest of Reagan’s lasting legacy—his neglect of the AIDS epidemic, his jingoistic foreign policy, his trickle-down economics, and so on. By Reagan’s logic, anyone adversely affected by these...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is the type of "progressive sex symbol" modern women want, a liberal Washington Post columnist argued in her column published Friday. "Move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first First Gentleman,"Catherine Rampell wrote. Since Gov. Tim Walz joined the 2024 Democratic ticket, media figures and Harris supporters have argued that Walz and Emhoff embrace a more modern version of masculinity that men should aspire to. In leaving his prestigious law career to support Vice President Harris after the 2020 presidential race, Emhoff showed he was...

Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk was seen violently throwing up after swimming through the River Seine ...the Canadian - who finished in ninth place - was the only athlete to be seen throwing his guts up, Olympic star vomits on live TV after being forced to swim race in polluted Paris river Updated 15:19 31 Jul 2024 GMT+1 Published 14:31 31 Jul 2024 GMT+1 Olympic star vomits on live TV after being forced to swim race in polluted Paris river Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk was seen violently throwing up after swimming through the River Seine Joe Yates Joe Yates An Olympian...

The "disgust factor" must be overcome if insect-based foods are to become mainstream, according to a study. Insects can be high in protein and making them more acceptable could help cut the high greenhouse gas emissions that come from farming cattle. There are also potential benefits for cutting obesity and researchers say the idea of farming insects is gaining more attention. Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are estimated to already eat insects to some degree. There are hopes Western attitudes could shift over time, perhaps in a similar way that food such as sushi...

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Fox News host Sean Hannity opened up about his friendly relationship with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “From the first time we met, we just hit it off, and there was a certain relationship that developed that was like, ‘Oh, come on, you don’t believe all that,’” Hannity said of the governor during an interview at Fox News’ headquarters in New York, the Times reported Sunday.

The NHL made history before Saturday night’s Winnipeg Jets game against the Colorado Avalanche. The Jets were celebrating South Asian Heritage Night at the Canada Life Centre, which featured a beautiful rendition of O Canada sung in Punjabi, a first for the league. The singers were students from the local Amber Trails School’s kindergarten to grade 8 choir, which is the first school in Manitoba to offer a bilingual English-Punjabi program. This marks another incredible and unique way that NHL teams have celebrated Canada’s diverse nation of hockey fans. Though it may seem like a small gesture, it can help...

For centuries, shipworms have vexed mariners by boring into – and consuming – the hulls of wooden ships and boats. Soon, though, we may actually be eating those "worms," as they have successfully been farmed for the first time. Scientifically known as teredinids, shipworms are actually a type of bivalve mollusk. This means they're related to clams, mussels and oysters. Because they spend their lives protected inside the wood that they eat, however, they only have a tiny shell at their front end, where it aids in the wood-boring process. In the Philippines, shipworms are already wild-harvested and sold as...

For Hillary Clinton, Sally’s Apizza is truly a slice of life. The former presidential candidate and secretary of state was photographed this weekend at the famous New Haven pizzeria, a spot that’s close to her heart. In a social media post, the pizzeria wrote that she was “in the house, revisiting the place where she and Bill saw sparks flying on their first date. Maybe it was the apizza that sealed the deal?” The duo met while attending Yale University, when Hillary called out Bill for staring at her in the library. In a 2019 interview on The Howard Stern...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision. Newsom is moving swiftly to name the next senator, two days after Feinstein’s death and just as a perilously split Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown. Senate Democrats are in need of every vote in the closely divided chamber. The announcement was expected to come Monday, and an adviser to the governor, Anthony York,...

Rookie Titans quarterback Will Levis scored a “lifetime supply” of Hellmann’s mayonnaise on Tuesday after he went viral in the lead-up to the 2023 NFL Draft for enjoying a squirt of the white stuff in his morning coffee. “I’ll admit I did not expect my mayonnaise and coffee combination to go viral — but I’m glad it did because it brought this partnership to life,” Levis said in a statement. “Hellmann’s is a staple ingredient for me and getting to show my fans how to use it in different ways, whether it’s game day dishes or mixing it in my...

As progressives want to do everywhere, California is destroying math education in the name of “equity.” The state’s new “math framework” for public schools ditches traditional instruction to emphasize “self-identity” and collaboration in lieu of actual math skills. It aims to keep all students in the same math courses until 10th grade — no longer grouping students by skill so the kids who can learn more get the more advanced instruction they need. The result will be far fewer kids able to take advanced classes (calculus, or even algebra), and more “slow” children denied the chance to gain basic skills....

The member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — consisting of the teetering Masters of Empire and their tawdry entourage of class-stratified vassals — have just concluded a historic confab in Vilnius, Lithuania, capital of the alpha Baltic chihuahua. In a shockingly transparent but otherwise rather banal series of events it became unmistakably clear that their grand plans to subject Russia to the “rules-based order” have come to naught. Among others, the following consequences will ripple in the wake of this reality: Russia will achieve a decisive conclusion to the war on terms they dictate. NATO is shattered as...

It’s good to be in the top 10 of an Illinois state pension plan: median contribution, $165,852; median lifetime payout, $5.5 million. The top 10 pensioners in each of its five statewide systems has already received a median state pension worth $3.88 million since retiring. They are predicted to each collect about $1.62 million more during their lifetimes. Workers who spend their careers working for Illinois collect the third-most generous retirement benefits in the nation. But the top 10 pensioners in each system earn more than double the median lifetime payout of these career pensioners. Former Elgin School District 46...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took to the field Tuesday evening to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ “Night OUT” themed game, Major League Baseball’s longest-running LGBTQ celebration. The former House speaker was picked for “her long-standing commitment to fighting for the rights and dignities of the LGBTQ+ community,” the team said in the announcement Monday. The 83-year-old lawmaker took a few steps in from the mound on Tuesday evening to lob the ball to the catcher — the bald-eagle mascot dressed in a rainbow shirt for the event. “I’ll always be a @SFGiants fan, but tonight...

Welcome Lady Gaga to the White House! President Joe Biden announced on Thursday, April 13 that he has appointed legendary pop star and Oscar-winning actor Lady Gaga to co-chair his Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Gaga will serve as co-chair of the committee along with American Beauty and Milk producer Bruce Cohen. Other members of the committee include Kerry Washington, Jon Batiste, George Clooney, Jennifer Garner, Shonda Rhimes, Troy Kotsur, Marta Kauffman.

Leonard Leo, a leader of the right-wing Federalist Society, hopes to transform American culture the way he transformed the judiciary. As Donald Trump’s adviser on judicial nominations, he helped put Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court, making him central to the demise of Roe v. Wade. Now he wants to build a new organization helping reactionaries consolidate power in realms like Wall Street, Silicon Valley, journalism, Hollywood and academia. “I spent close to 30 years, if not more, helping to build the conservative legal movement,” Leo said in a video for the organization at...

Last night, President Joe Biden delivered the best State of the Union address I’ve heard in my lifetime. He turned what is usually a boring exercise in partisan clapping and mutual back-patting into a riveting combination pep rally, poetry slam and real-time legislative session. I was entranced the entire 72 minutes. I laughed. I cried. I yelled “sick burn.” Even Speaker Kevin McCarthy nodded along to half of what Mr. Biden had to say. Joe Cool was bipartisan. He appealed to Middle America. He handled his hecklers with a million-watt smile. He looked and sounded like Presidents do in the...

“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat. They could also become alternatives to sausages or chicken nuggets.” PARIS — Beetleburgers could soon be helping to feed the world, according to new research. The creepy crawlers’ larvae — better known as mealworms — could act as a meat alternative to alleviate hunger worldwide. The process uses a fraction of the land and water and emits a smaller carbon footprint in comparison of traditional farming. To make this a reality, French biotech company Ynsect is planning a global network of insect farms, including nurseries and slaughterhouses. A pilot...