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Trump just handed California Dems an overnight gift with surprise endorsement: report
Donald Trump has done the one thing California Republicans begged him not to do — and in doing so, may have handed the governor’s race to Democrats, Politico is reporting. Late Sunday night, Trump endorsed Fox News personality Steve Hilton for California governor on Truth Social, potentially delivering a fatal blow to GOP rival Chad…
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A Pro-Wrestling Show Where ICE Is the Bad Guy
If you attend a pro-wrestling show, the first thing you’ll notice is that most of the fans are wearing a T-shirt of their favorite wrestler. On March 25, the hallways of the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, resembled an informal straw poll about All Elite Wrestling (AEW), one of the largest wrestling companies…
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In L.A. mayor’s race, everyone is campaigning on change — even the incumbent
Mayor Karen Bass has had a lengthy political career, spending six years in the state Legislature, 12 years in Congress and the last three in the top elected office at Los Angeles City Hall. Now, facing the toughest reelection battle of her career, Bass is marketing herself in a way that might surprise some Angelenos:…
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Trump hands GOP ‘political mess’ – and some Republicans nearing ‘breaking point’: report
President Donald Trump’s shifting messaging around the U.S. war against Iran has grown increasingly “difficult” to understand, Punchbowl News reported Monday in its morning newsletter, and to such a degree that it’s pushed some Republicans near a “breaking point.” “Tracking and understanding Trump right now is very difficult, especially on the Iran war,” Punchbowl News’…
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Iran vows ‘devastating and widespread’ retaliations if Trump follows through with fresh strikes
Iran on Monday vowed “much more devastating and widespread” retaliation if President Trump follows through with his threat to ramp up strikes on civilian targets. “If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and widespread,” Iran’s central military command said in a…
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Meet the MAGA Intellectual on Hungary’s Payroll
One evening last fall, J. D. Vance threw open the doors of his home, a Queen Anne–style mansion on the campus of the U.S. Naval Observatory, to Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary. Over drinks in Vance’s study, the vice president asked Orbán for an update on life in Europe. Specifically, he wanted to…
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Coachella from the archives: A visual journey from desert experiment to global spectacle
Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999. During the festival, the Empire Polo Club in Indio has been the site of some of the biggest music and pop culture moments of the century, from Daft…
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The Broken Promises of Ed Tech
For more than a decade, Dylan Kane, a seventh-grade math teacher in Leadville, Colorado, leaned into technology as a way to improve his classes. Starting in 2014, he dragged Chromebook carts down hallways to make sure all of his students could use a device. He assessed the available apps, built his own math-instruction website, and…
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Mexico report downplays ‘disappeared’ crisis. Human rights activists call it a cover-up
MEXICO CITY — The goal, say Mexican authorities, was to bring clarity to one of the nation’s most explosive questions: What happened to the more than 130,000 people officially listed as “disappeared”? Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized…
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Pentagon gripped by ‘climate of fear’ with more officer firings on tap during war: expert
Building upon her report from last week about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s purge of the military leadership at the Pentagon, which included Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, The Atlantic’s Nancy Youssef claimed the military leadership is walking on eggshells, hoping they survive the Donald Trump appointee’s wrath. Appearing on MS NOW’s “Way too…