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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Police suspect one driver got into three crashes on Interstate 15 in the central Las Vegas valley Monday morning, resulting in heavy traffic in both directions. Collisions on both sides of the interstate near Sahara Avenue had cars moving toward a crawl. On the northbound side, authorities were blocking at least three lanes for a crash. The scene has been cleared, though some residual backup is expected to continue. Southbound traffic was backed up past the Spaghetti Bowl and toward Lake Mead Boulevard. Lt. Jeff Dean with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said a Toyota SUV was...

Let me offer the briefest overview of the core beliefs of the Woke Revolution, which are abundantly clear to anyone willing to look past the hashtags and the jargon. persuasion—the purpose of argument—is replaced with public shaming. Moral complexity is replaced with moral certainty. Facts are replaced with feelings. Ideas are replaced with identity. Forgiveness is replaced with punishment. Debate is replaced with de-platforming. Diversity is replaced with homogeneity of thought. Inclusion, with exclusion. But there is one word we should linger on, because every moment of radical victory turned on it. The word is cowardice.

MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" appears desperate to get back in the good graces of The New York Times, constantly touting its headlines and praising its reporters on the heels of her far-left show being shunned by the paper. Maddow -- and occasional fill-in hosts -- have mentioned the New York Times at least a whopping 41 times on her show since May 30, when Vanity Fair reported that the paper wanted its reporters to stay far away from far-left and far-right programs. That included Maddow's, because it was too liberal, even for the paper that is often considered left-leaning...

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NEW YORK - Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip “Doonesbury,” tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as “just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.”Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.“Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,” Trudeau said. “He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation......Bush has created more harm...