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‘Law & Order’ Mobile Game Launches on Peacock With New Cases Dropping Weekly
Peacock and Wolf Games have launched their first interactive mobile game on the streaming platform, “Law & Order: Clue Hunter,” allowing fans to test their own investigative skills. The first mobile game of the partnership will be available to play on Peacock Tuesday. With new cases dropping weekly, gamers will have a chance to solve…
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‘The beneficiary of all this is Jon Ossoff’: Georgia GOP steels for messy runoff
Georgia Republicans are already bracing for their bruising Senate primary to continue past Tuesday night. Once viewed as a clear GOP pickup opportunity, the contest to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has remained largely static for months — with no candidate fully separating from the field and President Donald Trump yet to get involved.…
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Senator hammers Blanche over exposed Epstein victim names — and doesn’t let him respond
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) called out Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a heated hearing on Tuesday — forcing him to address Jeffrey Epstein survivors whose identities were revealed. Blanche was testifying before the Senate Appropriations committee on Capitol Hill when Murray pushed him to apologize to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and the Department of…
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‘Minotaur’ Review: The Personal and Political Collide in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Chilling Drama
There’s a stillness that pervades Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” which had its world premiere in Competition at Cannes. Adapted from Claude Chabrol’s 1969 French film, “The Unfaithful Wife,” the course of the next 135 minutes obliterates any conflation that such quiet means peace. Morbidly humorous and shot with such patience as to conjure its latent anxieties…
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Democracy Is a Racial Entitlement Now
Last month, the Supreme Court set fire to the remnants of the Voting Rights Act, the law that made America a true democracy. Now southern Republicans are annihilating Black political power. In Louisiana, which has six congressional representatives, Republicans moved rapidly to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. Tennessee Republicans redrew the state’s…
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‘Ginormous blowout’ within reach for Democrats if polling trends holds firm: data expert
CNN’s Harry Enten analyzed the range of outcomes likely in November’s midterm elections, and he found that massive gain were within reach for the Democratic Party. The political landscape was convulsed by the mid-decade redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump in Texas, and last month’s Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map set…
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Amazon’s Alexa Will Now Create AI Podcasts From News Articles on Demand
Amazon launched Alexa Podcasts on Monday, a new feature that allows Alexa+ users to create AI-generated podcasts on virtually any topic within minutes. Amazon reports that its AI podcasts pull from over 200 news publications and a wide range of sources in order to make sure that the content generated is accurate and up-to-date. According…
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Trump shows off ‘impenetrable’ White House ballroom’s security features — including drone port
President Trump bragged that his new ballroom will include “impenetrable steel” walls and “impenetrable glass” windows that can withstand “an unlimited number of drones.” “The roof is a barrier. It’s a shield,” he explained. “The side walls are steel, impenetrable steel, and also impenetrable glass. The glass is approximately 4 inches thick, and yet it’s…
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Inside real story behind Hulu’s ‘The Nightmare Upstairs’ — when Utah siblings barricaded themselves in bedroom for 54 days
The two-part Hulu documentary “The Nightmare Upstairs: What Happened to Ty and Bryn?” explores a brutal family custody battle that culminated in two teenagers locking themselves in a room for 54 days. In 2023, Utah siblings Ty and Brynlee Larson – 15 and 12, at the time – barricaded themselves in an upstairs roomin their mother’s…
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The World Is Playing Catch-Up to Ebola
Quite abruptly, the world has jolted into another infectious-disease crisis. On Friday, Africa CDC confirmed a new Ebola outbreak, centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; within two days, the World Health Organization declared the epidemic a public-health emergency of international concern. The virus, which has also spread to Uganda, is suspected to have…