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Racist texts and accusations of forging MLB star’s signature plagues Republican: report
A Georgia Republican running for Congress is facing explosive allegations that he forged a Major League Baseball star’s signature to lure investors into a land deal and sent a trove of racist and antisemitic text messages. Ryan Millsap, founder of Blackhall Studios, the Atlanta-area film studio used by Marvel for projects including “Venom” and “Loki,”…
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GOP gets brutal ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ lesson in courtroom setback
A state judge in Texas partially blocked Republicans’ effort to purge diversity from a key business development program — and cited a popular educational series about government in the process. The issue stemmed from acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock making a move last year to single-handedly purge women and minorities from the Historically Underutilized Business,…
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Embattled MAGA rep follows Swalwell in quitting Congress amid misconduct scandal
Barely an hour after scandal-plagued Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced his move to resign from Congress following allegations he had non-consensual contact with a severely intoxicated staffer, a Trump-supporting Republican lawmaker facing his own inappropriate conduct allegations made a similar move. In a post to X on Monday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) said, “There is…
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Trump admin to break ground on NYC gas pipeline that riled green activists
The Trump administration will celebrate the groundbreaking of a controversial new natural gas pipeline in New York City on Tuesday — with the project set to run off the coast of the city to boost the region’s energy supply. President Trump strongly backs the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline and used his influence to persuade Democratic…
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Why Kelly Ripa joked she and Mark Consuelos ‘failed as parents’ — how their youngest son proved her wrong
Days after her son Joaquin’s Broadway debut, Kelly Ripa joked that she and Mark Consuelos thought they “failed as parents” when their youngest child first told them he wanted to attend drama school. “To get any job was, like, inconceivable to us,” Ripa said on the April 13 episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark.”…
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MAGA lawmaker booed out of town hall meeting
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) faced hostile crowds at his third town hall of 2026 at Mahopac High School, where constituents booed and heckled him throughout the event, The Journal News reported. Lawler defended President Donald Trump’s Iran war, citing administration talking points about preventing Iranian nuclear weapons development. When challenged by an audience member who…
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‘Escape From New York,’ ‘The Howling’ Redos in the Works at StudioCanal
Two 1981 favorites are coming back to theaters for a new generation. At CinemaCon 2026, StudioCanal announced that both “Escape from New York” and “The Howling” have reboots currently in development. The French distribution company didn’t give many details on the reimaginings of these two cult classic franchises. The news came at the end of…
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The U.S. Is Back to Squeezing Iran’s Economy
President Trump may have reached the limits of what he can achieve by bombing targets in Iran—now he’s trying to use economic pressure to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table. After a six-week pummeling by U.S. and Israeli forces failed to force Iran to capitulate, and a marathon weekend negotiating session ended without a…
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Racist theory declared driving force behind Trump’s agenda by renowned historian
Prominent racial historian Ibram X. Kendi said he is now confident enough to make a claim he once held back on — that “great replacement theory” is the driving ideological force behind President Donald Trump’s second term. Kendi, the 2016 National Book Award-winning author of “Stamped From the Beginning,” made the declaration in a new…
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Trump says in his social media post he was a doctor, not Jesus. A Catholic school alum weighs in
The general consensus is that President Trump’s social media post of himself dressed in robes, after a busy weekend in which he blasted Pope Leo and attended a prizefight while an Iran peace plan fell apart, was an attempt to cast himself as a Jesus-like figure. But Trump says we have it wrong. “It’s supposed…