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Insiders reveal secret meeting where fed officials hatched ‘kamikaze’ plot to stop Trump
In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters. They had been summoned by Attorney General William Barr. Over the preceding weeks, Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election had been stolen from him had reached a…
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How streaming platforms reignited the YA boom
The “Heartstopper” universe began as a small web comic that gained traction on Tumblr nearly a decade ago. It’s now a global phenomenon. Alice Oseman’s fictional world, where LGBTQ+ teenagers freely explore love, friendship and identity, expanded first to graphic novels before being turned into a hugely popular Netflix series. The rom-com, which debuted in…
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How to Raise ‘Difficult’ Kids—On Purpose
In 1996, I was a freshly minted high-school history teacher offering a lesson about the presidential election. Ned, who sat in the back row, was doing what Ned always did: making his classmates laugh. He had a gift for the well-timed quip. His comebacks flew so quickly, it was as if he’d prepared them in…
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Hollywood offshoring: A look at who’s winning the global production race
At the Burbank City Hall chambers packed with Hollywood union workers, community advocates and journalists, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) laid out the cost of losing local film and TV production: More than 42,000 jobs lost. Livelihoods destroyed. Future opportunities lost. Increasingly, Schiff said, those jobs are being “lured abroad” by “foreign governments that have invested…
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Pirro targets more Trump enemies in desperate bid to win Bondi’s job: report
US Attorney for Washington Jeanine Pirro is desperately positioning herself as a contender for Attorney General, but her track record of prosecutorial failures is a serious liability — and Trump has noticed. Pirro remains a “dark-horse candidate in MAGA circles to succeed Pam Bondi as the next attorney general,” but her prospects are severely hampered…
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DHS launches probe into Eric Swalwell over allegations he illegally hired Brazilian nanny
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that embattled lefty California Rep. Eric Swalwell illegally employed a Brazilian nanny years ago, officials said. Swalwell allegedly hired the nanny for his children and she continued to work for the family after her work authorization permit expired in 2022, the New York Post exclusively revealed. DHS…
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The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The…
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Movie theaters finally emerge from the shadows of the pandemic
As movie theater owners and studio executives converge on Las Vegas this week for the annual CinemaCon trade conference, a rare sentiment is emerging — optimism. A string of hits like Amazon MGM Studios’ “Project Hail Mary” and Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Illumination’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” have ignited theatrical revenue and helped push…
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‘Elected the Antichrist’: Massive MAGA backlash as Trump shares image of self as Christ
A massive MAGA backlash slammed President Donald Trump Monday after he posted an image depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure on social media, sparking outrage from his own supporters and demands the “blasphemous” image be immediately erased. “It’s more than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit,” wrote former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a…
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Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time
Last May, one month into her time as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon stood behind the lectern at a meeting of the conservative Federalist Society and set out her vision for the Justice Department’s civil-rights work. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we have a generational opportunity for a reformation,” she told the…