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Pro Tip, Senator Klobuchar: if you want to give people the impression that Donald Trump and the Republicans are looking to starve women and children out of spite, it's better not to put that message out there by dragging out a morbidly obese public employee as the face of your cause. Senator … I … I don’t know how to put this nicely but please fire your social media team. https://t.co/U94IliEtnm— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 12, 2025Today, we heard from Felecia, a single mom of four who works up to three jobs at a time to make ends meet. She counts...

The Washington Post has fired national political reporter Felicia Sonmez, The Daily Beast has confirmed, capping off a week’s worth of highly public drama at the paper. Both the Post and Sonmez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sonmez’s apparent exit from the paper comes after a week of WaPo infighting that stoked heated conversations over newsroom inequity and social-media use, with multiple reporters taking shots at one another in public. The seemingly unending dramatics began late last week when political reporter Dave Weigel retweeted a sexist post about bisexual women. He later apologized but not before Sonmez...

Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Hurricane Felicia has lost a lot of its power as it heads for a collision with the Hawaiian islands. On Friday, Felicia was downgraded to a Category 3 storm after losing some of its sustained wind speed. Nonetheless, the hurricane is headed for a Tuesday morning landfall with the Big Island of Hawaii. In its latest update, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reports Felicia has sustained wind speeds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/hr), down from 140 mph (220 km/hr) on Thursday. Felicia is moving west at about 10 mph and the eye of...