Hours before a ban on gender-affirming care was set to take effect in Kentucky, a federal judge stepped in and placed a temporary injunction on the bill. On Wednesday, Judge David J. Hale sided with seven trangender minors, and their families, who sued the state in response to SB 150, …
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Fresh off hosting his league of health misinformation superstars, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped by NewsNation’s town hall Wednesday night and refused to criticize former President Trump. When asked by moderatorElizabeth Vargaswhat he thought about the first president to become indicted, arrested, and arraigned, Kennedy said: “I’m not going to …
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The Supreme Court has deemed race-based affirmative action in college admissions unconstitutional. The court’s conservative majority ruled on Thursday that universities cannot consider an applicants’ race when deciding whether to admit them. The decision means higher-learning institutions will have to overhaul efforts to cultivate a diverse student body. The court’s …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a panel of health misinformation superstars on Tuesday evening for a roundtable discussion that suggested his medical conspiracism will be a key component of his 2024 presidential run. During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza (or “Spanish …
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It’s taken a few days, but Donald Trump appears to be zeroing in on something resembling an explanation, sort of, for the newly released audio in which he allegedly shows off a classified Iran attack plan at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The former president’s reasoning makes absolutely …
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Back in the halcyon days of the early 2010s, Rob Schneider was perhaps best known for being a Saturday Night Live alum, one of Adam Sandler’s BFFs, and the star of the (underrated) The Hot Chick and the (completely fairly rated) Deuce Bigalow franchise. Today, however, he’s probably best known …
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On Tuesday, Breitbart revealed that Pedro Gonzalez, a prominent conservative influencer and supporter of Ron DeSantis, sent a slew of nakedly antisemitic messages. Gonzalez responded on Twitter by claiming that the messages, which were sent in 2019 and 2020, were from “a different, dumb season of my life,” while accusing …
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President Joe Biden took a dig at Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday, chiding the Alabama senator for celebrating federal broadband internet funding being sent to his state after having previously opposed the legislation that made it happen. “To no one’s surprise, it’s bringing along some converts,” Biden said of the Broadband …
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Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official. In a passage reviewed by Rolling Stone, former Trump Department of Homeland Security appointee Miles …
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“These are the papers… this is secret information” Trump can be heard saying in a recording of a 2021 meeting held at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort, audio of which was obtained by CNN on Monday. CNN first reported on the existence of such a recording in May, just days …
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