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MAGA solicitor general distances from Todd Blanche as DOJ accused of ballot crimes
President Donald Trump’s top Supreme Court lawyer distanced himself from Attorney General Todd Blanche’s claims about 20,000 likely noncitizen voters in California. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote three times that his office had been “informed” of the list’s findings, according to his emergency application to the justices. Sauer filed it Monday, the day before…
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Trump renews promise of $5K payout if GOP retains Congress in Midterm eve speech at Lincoln Reflecting Pool
WASHINGTON — President Trump defended his record and attacked Democratic Senate candidates in Alaska and Michigan in his final speech appealing to voters ahead of the midterm elections — though he spent most of his remarks focused on DC construction projects. Trump celebrated Monday’s steep drop in oil prices, the low unemployment rate, plummeting crime…
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Dustin Hoffman recalls ‘terrible’ experience filming movie that earned him first Oscar nomination
Dustin Hoffman had a “terrible” time filming his iconic 1967 film “The Graduate.” In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, “Look at Me,” obtained by the New Yorker, the Golden Globe winner described “often [feeling] like he was about to be fired” while working with director Mike Nichols. Noting that Nichols seemed to become “an…
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Michael Wilbon is taking a leave of absence from ESPN’s ‘Pardon the Interruption,’ NBA coverage
ESPN personality Michael Wilbon announced he is taking an indefinite leave of absence from “Pardon the Interruption,” the sports debate show he has hosted with Tony Kornheiser for 25 years, and his NBA duties with the network and on ABC. In a statement posted to social media on Monday, Wilbon cited “struggles with multiple health…
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‘Hold liars to account’: Judge urges drastic move to expose false ICE arrest accounts
A federal judge who caught an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in a lie over an arrest report is stressing the need to put agents on the witness stand to expose falsehoods that paperwork alone could conceal. “Evidentiary hearings are essential tools to ensure that a rigorous record of something closer to the truth is…
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John Goodman Laments Bad ‘Digger’ Reviews: ‘Kind of Killed Us Before We Even Opened’
John Goodman thinks negative reviews for “Digger” kept potential viewers from giving the movie a chance, admitting it “hurt” to see the response unfold. While talking on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the actor was asked about the Alejandro G. Iñárritu flop in which he starred alongside Tom Cruise. Goodman pointed to the early reviews…
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Jimmy Webb on the hits that got away and the ‘wretched excess’ of ’70s L.A.
“By the way, can I get you something to drink?” Jimmy Webb asks, rising slowly from his chair. “Would you like to wet your whistle?” The 80-year-old songwriter and I have been talking for a while on a recent afternoon about some of the many, many renditions of his song “Wichita Lineman,” and as he…
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‘It’s all rigged!’ MAGA erupts after yet another Trump DOJ prosecution collapses
MAGA figures erupted in outrage Monday after a federal judge dismissed criminal chargesagainst two former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about investigations involving Hunter Biden. U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, finding prosecutors had failed to establish probable cause. He described the prosecution in…
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Multiple people killed in California state beach shooting in Monterey County, police say
Multiple people were killed and several injured during a shooting just after midnight Monday at a Monterey County beach, officials said. Few details have been released, but Monterey County Sheriff’s officials said in a statement deputies and detectives were called to Moss Landing State Beach about a shooting. “There are multiple fatalities and casualties confirmed,”…
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GOP efforts to interfere with election mocked as ‘Comic Sans on a Burger King placemat’
A former top Justice Department official had a brutal review for one of the latest Republican lawsuits seeking to throw this week’s election into doubt. Wired reported on the extraordinary steps President Donald Trump’s DOJ has taken to interfere with the Nov. 3 election, and a former official pointed to a lawsuit filed in Texas…