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‘Tragedy every day’: Fox News watchdog predicts dark times ahead for right-wing network
Fox News is trapped in a hell of its own making as President Donald Trump’s power and popularity plummet — and the network’s ratings nosedive beside them, a top media watchdog told Raw Story. Decoding Fox News founder Juliet Jeske described a downward spiral that began on Feb. 28 when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared…
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Islanders games become new hot spot to make fashion statement as female fans flock to NHL
They’re in it from the blue line to the clothing line. The new cool-as-ice spot for cosmopolitan influencers and fashionistas is Long Island’s UBS Arena – where cheering on the hometown Islanders and donning orange-and-blue are in style for the season. Some 80 miles west of the high-society Hamptons, female hockey fans are flashing bold…
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Prince Harry declares kids ‘deserve to feel safe’ days after Thomas Markle’s child porn arrest — as Meghan cancels speech
Prince Harry delivered a speech on child safety days after his father-in-law Thomas Markle Sr.’s child porn arrest. The Duke of Sussex declared in his remarks at the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial installment Tuesday, that children “deserve to feel safe” using technology. Taking to the stage alone after his wife, Meghan Markle, chose…
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The Lost World of Aquaterra
Illustrations by Owen Pomery Imagine a planet that’s home not only to the seven continents you know but also to an immense feature you’ve never heard of, continental in scale. Extending along the world’s coastal shelves from the tropics almost to the poles, this place is roughly equivalent in size to South America, with a…
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British science fiction writer M. John Harrison becomes oldest winner of the Booker Prize for fiction
LONDON — A satirical dystopian novel whose themes of “catastrophe and apocalypse” chime with our uneasy times won the Booker Prize on Monday, the first work of science fiction to take the prestigious literary award. British writer M. John Harrison was awarded the 50,000-pound ($67,000) prize at a ceremony in London for “The End of Everything,” a…
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‘This is all now worthless’: Trump crypto investors watch bottom fall out after midterms
Supporters of Donald Trump’s family’s crypto ventures who went all in are now saddled with investments worth a fraction of what they paid after the midterm results further depressed their value. The Trump-branded crypto market has slumped since last week’s election, the Washington Sun reported, as investors bet that a weakened president means weaker returns.…
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How I Became the Star* of a Hallmark Christmas Movie
Photographs by Sophie Green On a Hallmark movie set, it is always Christmas but rarely winter. When you produce dozens of original holiday movies a year, there is only so much year for filming, and so you often find yourself making Christmas in July. As I am doing now in Canterbury, England. It doesn’t reliably…
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Inside California’s decadelong higher education expansion in prisons
Jason Jenkins had spent 14 years in prison before he used a computer for the first time in 2021. Now, the 42-year-old inmate is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies, taking on a full-time course schedule while incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The number of incarcerated students enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program…
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Red state Senate race on knife’s edge as thousands of ballots risk being thrown out
Thousands of Mississippi voters are scrambling to make sure their ballots count after a voter roll purge overseen by the state’s Republican secretary of state kept them out of precinct poll books on Election Day – and the outcome could decide a U.S. Senate race that remains too close to call. Democrat Scott Colom holds…
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Reading Isn’t Over Yet
The Age of Reading Is Over In the August issue, Rose Horowitch considered whether civilization can survive our postliterate era. Rose Horowitch’s “The Age of Reading Is Over” is devastating. The comparison between our present moment and the long, undramatic decline of the Library of Alexandria is apt: We are witnessing a gradual failure of…