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Israel is on “heightened” alert and boosting defenses throughout the country after Tehran threatened retaliation for the strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Damascus on Monday.
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A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a French court on Wednesday for his role in plotting the deadly shooting at a Strasbourg Christmas market nearly six years ago, an attack that left five people dead and 11 others injured.
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The mayor of Athens, Georgia, was skewered Thursday by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) for standing by sanctuary city policies in the wake of Laken Riley being murdered at the University of Georgia—a crime allegedly carried out by an undocumented immigrant.
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The MAGA-friendly judge overseeing Donald Trump’s trial for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has handed prosecutors a minor victory on Thursday. But she also refused to take the bait on a trap that could have very well led to her removal from the case.
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President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call Thursday that the United States will determine its future Gaza policies based on Israel taking “immediate” and “concrete” steps to address civilian harm and the safety of aid workers.
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Paul McCartney took to Instagram on Thursday to share high praise for Beyoncé, whose latest album, Cowboy Carter, includes a cover of the classic Beatles ballad “Blackbird.”
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A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants’ efforts to dismiss the ongoing state election interference case they argue violates their First Amendment rights.
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Billionaire Leon Black is speaking out about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time since resigning from his private equity firm, claiming the famous men in the sex-trafficker’s circle likely didn’t know “that Jeffrey was a pedophile.”
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British former pop star Lily Allen and co-host Miquita Oliver discussed Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album on the latest episode of their podcast Miss Me? this week. And while Oliver praised the singer’s beauty and musical prowess, Allen threw a few subtle jabs.
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Adrian Schiller, who was known for his roles in the British television period dramas The Last Kingdom and Victoria, has died, his family and agency confirmed Thursday. He was 60 years old.
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The New York attorney general on Thursday questioned whether the company that swooped in to post a $175 million bond for former President Donald Trump is actually good for the money—or is even allowed to operate in the state.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and its allies “could have stopped” the horrific Rwandan genocide of 1994 and spared hundreds of thousands of lives but “lacked the will to do so.”
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Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo has clearly had enough with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and her endless feud with Kevin McCarthy, scolding the MAGA lawmaker on-air for not letting it go.
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Viral footage has captured the moment scores of passengers on a ferry in Thailand abandoned ship as the boat carrying them became engulfed in flames—a terrifying ordeal that had a relatively happy ending, with no lives lost.
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An entertainingly cheesy attempt to piggyback on the success of The Exorcist, 1976’s The Omen concerns a United States ambassador (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) who, following the untimely death of their child, adopt a baby boy named Damien—a boy they eventually learn is none other than the Antichrist. Since Damien is himself an infant at the start of Richard Donner’s franchise initiator, and his lineage is clearly spelled out by the conclusion of its tale, there’s... Читать дальше...
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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael confronts the terror of being perceived in his new HBO series Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show—on which, for example, he’s already discussed his crush on Tyler, the Creator with Tyler, the Creator.
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The British actress Elizabeth Hurley has spoken out about the rumor that she was the woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity, calling the gossip especially “absurd” and “ridiculous”—because she’s never even met him.
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Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday night voted against a move toward changing the way the state awards Electoral College votes, a proposal backed by Donald Trump that would likely help him in his bid for a second presidential term.
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Stephen Colbert waded into the Hamas war conversation this week, calling out Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not seeming “apologetic” about the drone killings of seven aid workers in Gaza.
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In November 2019, Prince Andrew, Duke of York and his team had a problem that would not go away. After a photo of Prince Andrew alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released about a decade earlier, allegations of sex abuse from Epstein survivors and rumors of lecherous behavior followed the Duke for years. When Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and private island home were raided in fall 2019, Prince Andrew’s association with Epstein and his girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, could no longer be outrun. Читать дальше...
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A group of fabulously wealthy philanthropists are launching a campaign to stop their peers from hoarding their riches in private foundations.
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In the latest overhaul of the platform formerly known as Twitter, some influential accounts were surprised and appalled to find that a free blue checkmark had been added to their profiles Wednesday.
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Former Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman is asking a judge to pause his disbarment so he can continue to work and earn income as an attorney while legal fees mount in his criminal case connected to his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
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