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MAGA fans frenzied after right-winger slapped at election event: ‘Are you kidding me?’
Fans of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement threw a fit on Tuesday after a conservative volunteer was slapped at an election event in New Hampshire. Turning Point Action, the advocacy arm of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a conservative youth political group, held an election event in New Hampshire, where one of…
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Receding floodwaters leave a sea of mud and shattered homes in the Southwest
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — The massive amounts of water that flooded parts of the U.S. Southwest turned some communities into lakes of mud, leaving residents dealing with the loss of homes and businesses as they started cleaning up Tuesday. Jack Ellis, a retired school teacher, surveyed the damage along the San Juan River in Pagosa Springs, Colo.,…
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Hidden GOP trick threatens to make Dem dream a mirage
It’s Election Day and, if you believe the polls, both Democrats and democracy itself are heading for a very good night. The final generic ballot averages show Democrats about 9 points ahead, which is the widest margin by which either party has carried a midterm in years. And while I hope those numbers hold up…
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Authorities release 911 call from the man who killed a shooter inside an Oregon elementary school
BEND, Ore. — A frantic 911 call from the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old shooter who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school last month was released Tuesday to The Associated Press through a public records request. In a tense call lasting a little more than a minute, Kaylub Giamanco told the 911 operator there’s…
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Trump DOJ’s ‘invasion’ hype backfires as judge threatens to punish officials behind it
A federal judge is demanding answers from the Trump Justice Department after prosecutors’ splashy announcement about a fraud case went sideways. In an order issued Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Irick directed the government to name the people who wrote and posted a press release falsely claiming all 13 defendants in a Florida immigration fraud…
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Oops: Mamdani’s rent freeze is choking NYC’s affordable housing
From the “totally predictable consequences” department comes news that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze is drying up financing for distressed rent-regulated properties, including nonprofit providers. The result? Less maintenance, more foreclosures and higher market-rate rents: Socialism delivers its usual disasters, in other words. Lenders, from local community-development nonprofits all the way up to federally chartered…
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Taylor Swift was like a politican campaigning for an Oscar at New York ‘Toy Story 5’ screening
Taylor Swift’s campaign push for an Oscar is in full swing. Swift was spotted packing on the schmooze at an all-guild screening and Q&A of “Toy Story 5” at Disney’s downtown Manhattan offices Sunday afternoon. A spy told Page Six the “Bad Blood” singer even followed politics’ long-standing tradition of hugging babies during campaign season. “She…
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Supreme Court considers whether a state’s preschool funding rules are discriminatory
WASHINGTON — In its latest chapter on religion in schools, the Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether Colorado may fund private preschools for 4-year-olds but exclude Catholic schools that refuse to serve same-sex parents and their children. The court’s six conservatives, all of whom were raised Catholic, leaned in favor of ruling the state was discriminating based…
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‘Five-alarm fire’ flagged as Trump DOJ hits Dems with target letters while votes cast
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman blasted the Trump Justice Department’s Election Day escalation against Democrats, comparing its reported wave of target letters to a “huge mob takedown.” “Escalation is a really huge understatement,” Litman told All Rise News editor-in-chief Adam Klasfeld during an interview Tuesday. The reaction came following New York Times reporting that roughly…
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Disney has fought AI firms over copyright. Now it’s testing AI lyric videos.
Walt Disney Co. is experimenting with using artificial intelligence to test out different concepts for music videos showcasing the lyrics to its songs, starting with “Go the Distance” from its 1997 animated movie, “Hercules.” The effort is part of a deal with Bay Area AI startup OpenArt, which makes AI generated videos. Disney can input…