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MSNBC will rebrand as MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World), losing its name and logo. The rebranding decision reverses a previous statement that MSNBC would keep its name. The change comes as Comcast's NBCUniversal spins off cable networks into a new company. Are you ready to watch MS NOW? That will be the new name of MSNBC when Comcast's NBCUniversal spins off its cable networks into a new company, Versant, at the end of this year. Mark Lazarus, who's leading Versant, announced Monday that MSNBC would trade its famous name for a new one: My Source News Opinion World,...

Despite the troubling and ever-increasing number of COVID-19 cases in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is urging corporations and financial institutions to end their reliance on telecommuting and bring their employees back to work. He says the city’s economic health depends on it,

A Russian spy ship parked in international waters off Kauai for several days has delayed a Missile Defense Agency missile test, officials said. U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor said in a statement that it “is aware of the Russian vessel operating in international waters in the vicinity of Hawaii, and will continue to track it through the duration of its time here. Through maritime patrol aircraft, surface ships and joint capabilities, we can closely monitor all vessels in the Indo-Pacific area of operations.” It was not immediately clear if the Russian vessel is broadcasting an automatic identification system, or...

“The Who” lead singer Roger Daltrey has joined the wave of rock musicians speaking out against woke culture and its effect on society. Speaking with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the “Baba O’Riley” singer said that the “woke generation” is creating a “miserable world” for themselves and everyone else. “It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth,” Daltrey said. “It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth, and start to read books again. It’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do,...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, like most of the other the GOP presidential hopefuls, says his campaign is about undoing the decisions of President Obama. But Perry also presents a stark alternative to the last Republican to occupy the White House, his fellow Texan George W. Bush. In his writings and speeches before he entered the race, Perry shared the view, widely held among conservatives, that Bush’s government spending habits in office were a betrayal of the GOP’s core fiscal principles. But Perry went further, dismissing “compassionate conservatism,” the central tenet of Bush’s domestic policy, as just more overreach by the...

It’s a cool idea, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. At long last, the feminist icon would represent the feminist ideal of getting a room of her own, all on her own.

Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has been offered the job of Health and Human Services secretary by President-elect Barack Obama and has accepted the job, according to a Democratic source close to Daschle.

WASHINGTON--The Associated Press is reporting that Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-West Virginia, is in line to become chairman of a subcommittee that oversees the FBI's budget, even though he's the subject of an FBI probe: Mollohan, whose personal finances have come under scrutiny, is now the top Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee that sets the budget for the Justice Department.