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Mike Johnson faces ‘absolutely brutal week’ that will determine remainder of year: report
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is poised to have an “absolutely brutal week” as a confluence of challenges is all set to fall into his lap within a matter of days, challenges that present the House GOP leader with risks of losing support and are likely to “set the tone for the rest of the
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Teen stabbed multiple times near Times Square: NYPD
A teenager was stabbed multiple times near Times Square on Sunday night, according to police. The 18-year-old victim was attacked around 9:23 p.m. near West 39th Street and 8th Avenue, cops said. A teenager was stabbed multiple times near Times Square on Sunday night, according to police. William C Lopez/NY Post He was stabbed in
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The Tech Bros Are All In on Zyn
Entrepreneur Garrett Campbell has a 6-mg “cool mint” Zyn tucked under his lip at all times during his mammoth 15-hour workdays, aside from when he is eating. “I was always very against nicotine,” says the software company founder. The 26-year-old saw his peers using nicotine pouches at college, when they first emerged as a potential
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Naked and unafraid at 73, she’s challenging ideas about aging women on a Hollywood stage
Telling her life story — naked onstage — was the only way. That much, Pamela Redmond was sure of. It was a sweltering July afternoon last year and Redmond was sitting on the sofa in her Hollywood home stewing over how AI was nearly putting her out of business. At 72, she had published 20
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Trump’s family creating problems for GOP as clock ticks down on president’s promised bill
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to get a landmark crypto bill passed through Congress, which currently has a Republican Party majority in both chambers, is running into a roadblock. His own family. According to Politico’s Jasper Goodman and Declan Harty, Don Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have built crypto businesses worth hundreds of millions of
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A sex test for Olympic contenders harms all women
The International Olympic Committee claims that requiring sex testing for every female athlete will “protect women,” but instead it will force all women to prove their bodies in ways that are invasive, unfair and unnecessary. And the first affected Games will be LA28. Under the IOC’s new policy, all girls and women with Olympic dreams
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‘Proven false’: Conservative Wall Street Journal slams Trump move to placate ‘pot lobby’
The Wall Street Journal lambasted the Trump Administration’s recent reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, warning the move carries significant implications for public health, particularly regarding adolescent brain development. The practical consequences are substantial, the newspaper’s editorial board warned. The reclassification will allow marijuana growers and retailers to
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Becerra’s surge in California governor race draws fresh attention to candidacy, long government record
After winning his first race for Congress in 1992, 34-year-old Xavier Becerra credited a wave of community supporters in Los Angeles, many Latino, for backing his upstart campaign, saying he hoped his win was proof that grassroots politics was more valuable than “heavy dollars.” More than 30 years later, Becerra, 68, is again an upstart
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The surprising reason why pedestrian deaths are down in the US
There are many ways you could measure the health of a city — its air quality index, its population growth, the number of jobs it added last year. My favorite is one not often high on the priority lists of city governments in the US: How safe is it to walk? The US has the
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Mamdani fanboys over Fiorello La Guardia — but experts warn against comparisons with iconic NYC mayor
Zo’s fanboying Fiorello. Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani keeps evoking the legacy of his predecessor Fiorello La Guardia, who guided the city through the Great Depression and is widely considered the greatest mayor in the city’s history. Mamdani’s latest gushing portrayal of the long-dead former mayor as a role model came as he sat for an extended