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Federal court blocks ‘tainted’ GOP-drawn Alabama congressional map
WASHINGTON — A federal court blocked a Republican-drawn congressional mapfrom taking effect in Alabama Tuesday, throwing GOP plans to pick up an additional seat in the House of Representatives into doubt. The three-judge district court panel ruled that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling limiting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act doesn’t change their conclusion…
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Tony Hinchcliffe hurls vulgar expletive at Chelsea Handler after she blasts his ‘racist’ roast jokes
Tony Hinchcliffe labeled Chelsea Handler a “c–t” as he hit back at her criticism over his “racist” jokes at Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast earlier this month. “There’s news articles — ’cause the news isn’t real, nothing is real — that say that I got lit up by Chelsea Handler, which is very, very funny because…
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GOP pollster reveals favored nominee for the 2028 Presidential race
Republican pollster Sarah Longwell reports Candace Owens is repeatedly mentioned in her focus groups when voters discuss potential 2028 presidential candidates, surpassing conventional frontrunners like Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Focus group participants, including Biden-to-Trump voters, expressed strong support for Owens as a leader. One participant said, “If we would’ve…
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99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds
Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally speaking, but of something perhaps just as horrifying: that life under capitalism continues much as it always has, with one key difference — AI has made human labor obsolete. A new survey by consulting firm Mercer polled…
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Paramount, pushing to buy Warner Bros., girds for legal challenges
Is Paramount making a Tony Soprano move? David Ellison’s media company appears to be girding for a big battle with California Atty. General Rob Bonta and fellow state attorneys general who may team up to file a lawsuit aiming to block Paramount’s proposed $111-billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Last week, Paramount hired powerhouse anti-trust…
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US ally puts Iran deal in jeopardy as top official urges defiance of Trump
As President Donald Trump works to secure a deal to end the U.S. war against Iran — one that he claimed was imminent just days ago — a top official for a major U.S. ally broke ranks Monday and urged his own nation’s leader to “call Trump” directly by phone and “pound the table.” That…
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Several people suffer burn, inhalation injuries when tank implodes at Washington pulp and paper mill
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Several people suffered chemical burns and inhalation injuries Tuesday morning when a tank containing hazardous liquid imploded at a pulp and paper mill in southwestern Washington state, authorities said. It was not immediately clear how many people had been injured or how seriously, but Mike Gorsuch, battalion chief with the fire department in Longview,…
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Trump still thinks he’s winning in Iran
There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace talks with Iran. Over the weekend, the news around the talks followed what…
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‘I have bad news’: Trump’s grocery price fix sunk as analysts reveal microscopic savings
Economic analysts tore into Trump’s idea for lowering grocery prices Tuesday, saying it won’t work — and will cause more harm than good, according to a new report. “The president declared that he was taking ‘a very historic action to substantially lower costs for consumers,’” MS NOW political contributor Steve Benen wrote, referring to Trump’s…
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Tom Steyer spends $200M on gov’s race — even his backers are ‘disgusted’
Tom Steyer has spent a record-breaking $200 million in the race for California governor — and even some of the progressive billionaire’s top supporters admit they’re “disgusted” with the money involved in the high-stakes race. In a media call Tuesday, just a week before the June 2 primary election, state Sen. Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles)…