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Bannon thought the speech played to Biden’s strengths, but only because the MAGA extremism attack was all he had: he couldn’t run on the strength of his own policies, because people weren’t feeling the benefit in their own lives. “The bottom is actually falling out. And Biden is a perfect representative of that,” Bannon said.
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View gallery Image Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock It’s been 30 years since Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died. The legendary rockstar died at age 27 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, after years of struggling with drug addiction and depression. Kurt left behind his wife, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Frances was
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Women’s professional sports is a growing phenomenon worldwide, and Canada is increasingly joining in the action. After the launch of the Professional Women’s Hockey League this year with three of the six teams from Canadian cities, another six Canadian women’s teams have applied to join a new national Division 1 women’s soccer league in the
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Conspiracy and misinformation-spreading broadcaster Alex Jones reached a whole new audience last week, when The Truth vs. Alex Jones made its debut on HBO and Max.  The documentary about the lawsuits against the InfoWars host featured heartbreaking interviews with those who’d experienced threats and harm over his false claims that the 2012 mass shooting at
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Obviously, the rules that arose out of Watergate need some serious revision. Almost as importantly, administrators at state supreme courts and bar association disciplinary counsels need to act with a sense of urgency when lawyers are actively undermining confidence in the rule of law and democracy itself. New standards need to be adopted that specifically
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More than 400 Canadian artists from the worlds of music, film and literature are denouncing what they describe as “alarming and destructive” anti-trans legislation in an open letter released Sunday by music superstars Tegan and Sara. The list of stars who signed the letter includes actor Elliot Page, Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle, actress Elisha Cuthbert, folk music
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Lucian Msamati and Chance Perdomo at a party on April 25, 2019. Gabi Torres/Getty Images News of his death appears to have stunned his current and former colleagues: Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, which produce Gen V, said via a statement attributed to the show’s producers that “We can’t quite wrap our heads
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Once upon a time, some überwealthy individuals who’d previously supported Donald Trump declared that they were done with the 45th president of the United States. After January 6, 2021, billionaire GOP donor Nelson Peltz called the insurrection a “stain on America” and publicly apologized for voting for Trump in 2020. Real estate and aerospace mogul
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View gallery Image Credit: Getty Images Now that Shakira is embracing the single life, she is focusing on her new path forward! Days after releasing her steamy music video for “Puntería,” starring Lucien Laviscount, the two were spotted out together recently, fueling dating rumors. However, neither of them has confirmed the speculation. On Tuesday, March
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As U.S. federal agents raided several properties belonging to Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday, rapper and longtime foe 50 Cent continued to mock Combs online by (re-)promoting a documentary about the allegations against him. 50 Cent (real name Curtis James Jackson III) first announced the upcoming documentary — produced by his company — in December
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The primaries were a dud. The general election is a rematch between two well-known candidates unlikely to surprise in a major way. These circumstances have many news organizations anxious about how to keep their audiences engaged this cycle. Alex Burns, though, sees the race as right in Politico’s wheelhouse. “Nothing focuses the mind quite like
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At a time when Republicans want voters to give them more power, by putting them in control of the Senate and White House with ballots in November, let’s take a look at the job they’ve done running the House. The 118th Congress, first under Speaker Kevin McCarthy and now Mike Johnson, has truly been a
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