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‘Be dignified!’ Hearing goes off the rails as Trump secretary gets nasty
A House Agriculture Committee hearing erupted Thursday into a sharp clash between Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), with Rollins sniping that Congress’s behavior explains why “the American people don’t like Congress” as Brown repeatedly cut off Rollins’s attempts to dodge yes-or-no questions. Brown, the committee’s vice-ranking member, came loaded with grim…
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Alex Cooper’s Unwell Signs the Ha Sisters’ ‘HAHA Podcast’ | Exclusive
Alex Cooper’s Unwell is broadening its podcasting slate. “HAHA Podcast” — Evelyn, Erica and Emily Ha’s show about sisterhood, young adulthood and growing up online — has joined the company’s network of podcasts, TheWrap has exclusively learned. The Ha sisters have a combined audience of more than 14 million followers and over 5 million YouTube…
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Todd Blanche’s old podcast appearance may haunt him at confirmation hearing: report
President Donald Trump‘s former personal attorney and now pick for attorney general, Todd Blanche, might be confronted with tough questions from the Senate over his “cozy relationship” with the lawyer for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a report on Thursday. David Oscar Markus has represented Maxwell and suggested she could be pardoned by…
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Piers Morgan Tells SXSW London He’s ‘Disappointed’ They Didn’t Defend Cenk Uygur After UK Ban
While speaking at a SXSW London panel on Thursday, Piers Morgan once again expressed his disappointment with the arts and culture festival’s organizers for not defending planned speaker Cenk Uygur after he was banned from entering the U.K., telling attendees, “It would have been quite nice for them to stand up actually for free speech.”…
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Hungary to kill 3,000 domestic pigs following country’s first report of African swine fever
BUDAPEST, June 4 (Reuters) – Hungarian authorities ordered the culling of 3,000 pigs on a farm after African swine fever was reported in domestic pigs for the first time in the country, the National Food Chain Safety Office said in a statement on Thursday. The virus, which is harmless to humans but highly contagious and…
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Chris Hemsworth, wife Elsa Pataky and kids denied boarding for international flight
Chris Hemsworth and his family were denied boarding for an international flight after a passport mix-up. The “Thor” actor and his wife, Elsa Pataky, spoke about the embarrassing incident during a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, as he explained, “I actually went to the airport once and I had my daughter’s passport instead of…
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‘Oh, my God!’ Trump official ordered to ‘stop talking’ as hearing devolves into chaos
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was repeatedly ordered to stop talking and struggled to answer basic questions about the farm economy Thursday during a tense House Agriculture Committee hearing that devolved into a shouting match. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the committee’s ranking member, came loaded with data — and used every second of her question time…
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Trump explodes at Fox News over Karl Rove’s remarks: ‘Put him out to pasture, now!’
Despite former White House chief of staff Karl Rove’sprediction on Fox News on Thursday morning that the Democratic “blue wave” in November may not be as damaging to the Republican Party as has been predicted, the Republican commentator was the target of the president’s ire on Truth Social. Toward the end of his Fox News…
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Declines to Testify Before House Judiciary on Media Rights Deals
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has declined an invitation to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week on its media rights deals, distribution strategy and the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. In a letter to committee chairman Jim Jordan, the NFL’s general counsel Ted Ullyot said that it has developed the “most fan-friendly media distribution…
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Man attacked 5 women at UCLA within an hour before being captured by police, prosecutors say
A man has been charged with assaulting five women at UCLA, four of them students, according to authorities. Olumuyiwa Akindahunsi, 29, is charged with one felony count of attempted kidnapping to commit a forcible rape, three felony counts of assault with the attempt to commit a forcible rape during a first-degree burglary and two felony…