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‘That supposed to scare people?’: Photo of Karoline Leavitt’s attack notes sparks mockery
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt may have inadvertently exposed a MAGA strategy for a recent conservative television appearance, critics argued on Tuesday. Leavitt snapped a photo of her notes and shared it on social media on Monday just as she was preparing to speak with Fox News personality Sean Hannity. Patriot Takes, an X…
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‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts Nicholas Hoult as Gilderoy Lockhart
The “Harry Potter” HBO series found a familiar face to play its Gilderoy Lockhart. “Superman” and “Nosferatu” star Nicholas Hoult will take the role of the “Chamber of Secrets” defense against the dark arts professor in Season 2, which is set to begin filming this fall. The character was played by Kenneth Branagh in the…
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Nancy Pelosi drops big hint on Gavin Newsom’s White House plans
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosimay have let the cat out of the bag on Gavin Newsom’s White House ambitions, gushing over the California governor as “hardworking” and “responsible” before hinting his White House run is a matter of when, not if. The soon-to-retire Pelosi was pressed during a Politico event on Tuesday over what she…
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ABC news anchor Liz Cho files protective order in nasty Josh Elliott divorce
ABC news anchor Liz Cho has filed a protective order to avoid testifying in her tumultuous divorce from ousted CBS host Josh Elliott. Court papers obtained by Page Six show Cho filed a motion for a protective order on July 17 to stop Elliott’s legal team from conducting a deposition of the “Eyewitness News” anchor…
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Groups sue the Trump administration over its targeting of the International Criminal Court
UNITED NATIONS — Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court, arguing that sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors are undermining the ability to prosecute people responsible for humanity’s worst crimes. The complaint — filed in the Southern District of New York…
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‘Ham-fisted’ blunders that forced Trump’s plane stunt slammed by expert: ‘Clown show!’
President Donald Trump’s stunt to use a decoy plane stunned Michael Feinberg of Lawfare. His analysis came in the middle of an MS NOW panel that discussed the issue in the context of the Justice Department issuing subpoenas to New York Times reporters after leaks about the security breaches on the plane gifted by the…
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Kash Patel faces deadline to swat down ‘inherently plausible’ drinking allegations
FBI Director Kash Patel has five days to respond to a motion arguing his own public record proves The Atlantic’s drinking allegations are ‘inherently plausible.’ Judge Emmet G. Sullivan set the Aug. 17 deadline after granting a joint extension request, according to the court docket. The Atlantic filed its motion to dismiss on July 27.…
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A Little Bit of Shopping, All the Time
For several months, I had been on the hunt for new T-shirts. I vaguely had a vision of what they should look like: not so different from my current T-shirts, except in some way elevated and, more urgent, free of stains or holes. Perhaps they could come in interesting colors? Ideally, they would not be…
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From milk to snack foods, more products are going ‘regenerative’
When Michael Ham first began handing out samples of his company’s tea to Whole Foods shoppers in 2024, explaining that it was grown using regenerative farming on South Korea’s Jeju Island, he was often met with blank stares. That didn’t last long. By the following year, “People were coming up saying, ‘Oh, you’re regenerative!’” says…
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Trump officials at each other’s throats over ‘sickening’ report on boat strikes: ‘A joke’
Trump administration officials are slamming their colleagues in the Pentagon after a new report downplayed casualty counts from recent military strikes, per a new report. The Department of Defense turned over an annual report to Congress with a tally of civilian casualties from military strikes in 2025, and one anonymous Trump administration official called it…