Jon Stewart addressed the ongoing fires in Los Angeles, as well as the varied responses to the disaster, on a new episode of The Daily Show. The late-night host specifically took aim at Republicans, who have called for strings to be attached to the relief funds. Stewart first highlighted the …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has released former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The 130-page report is damning, and concludes that “the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.” “As …
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A former senior executive in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Naj divides his time between overseeing medicine companies he has founded and writing; his latest book, Pandastic Times (Brazen House), is a fable of the Covid pandemic. Some two decades ago, when I mentioned what I did for a living …
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T here are two men bleeding in a chain-link cage in front of the next president of the United States. A week and a half ago, Donald Trump was elected for his second term, and now he is back home at the center of the world, underneath the lights at …
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As fires continue to devastate Los Angeles County, a president will soon be inaugurated who has promised to withhold federal help from states like California if Democratic lawmakers there don’t sing to his tune. Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal disaster relief from the state just months ago, and he …
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Four years ago today, as preparations were underway for the inauguration of then President-elect Joe Biden, National Guard Master Sergeant DeRicko Gaither sent an email warning of a possible “Insider Threat” in the ranks: a guardsman named Pete Hegseth, who, Gaither wrote, had a tattoo of a refrain favored by …
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One year into Donald Trump‘s first presidential term, many fans heard Carrie Underwood‘s song “Love Wins” as a rebuke of ugly, divisive politics. Co-written by Underwood, the single builds toward a cathartic release with each verse, the first of which asks: “Politics and prejudice/How the hell’d it ever come to …
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Donald Trump’s incoming administration officials have begun interrogating White House national security staff about their potential loyalty — or disloyalty — to the president-elect, according to a Monday report from the Associated Press. One U.S. official familiar with the questioning said that staff members affiliated with the White House National …
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Carrie Underwood is slated to perform at Donald Trump‘s forthcoming presidential inauguration. “I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event,” Underwood said in a statement. “I am humbled to answer the call …
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Confirmation hearings for a slew of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-ranking positions are scheduled to begin this week. Senate committees still have not received vetting materials for several nominees, and many of their financial disclosures and ethics disclosures have not yet been made public. On Monday, …
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