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Senate Republicans try to smear Fauci over COVID, but he refuses to play their game
There’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play. A real-life example of this stratagem unfolded Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) convened a committee hearing aimed at trapping Dr. Anthony Fauci into saying…
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‘Can they deliver?’ Frantic Trump turns to tech bros as weapon stockpile dwindles
President Donald Trump faces a critical weapons shortage as his war with Iran continues — and now he’s turning to an unlikely source for help: tech bros. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conferred an urgent meeting with a number of defense technology startups to get help with improving the military’s operational efficiency, according to The Washington…
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Ben Affleck wins elusive $1M prize with ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Jamie Ding on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’
Winner takes all. Ben Affleck and “Jeopardy!” champion Jamie Ding won the elusive $1 million prize on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” On Wednesday night’s episode of the hit game show, the “Gone Girl” star and Ding answered the 15th and final question correctly to take home the grand prize — which will go…
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How one L.A. company ditched rigid office mandates and got workers back
Los Angeles video gaming company Riot Games abandoned its return-to-office requirements in January, and surprisingly, more of its employees have been showing up at work. Two years of dictating that everyone commute into work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays was hurting the morale as well as the productivity of many. Riot decided on a radical…
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Scrambling DOJ rushed to shut Epstein case as ‘flag list’ surfaced big names: new docs
Days after an explosive meeting at the White House Situation Room last July to address a crisis threatening to engulf the Trump administration, FBI Director Kash Patel sought clarity on how the scandal might implicate powerful men linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Addressing Patel as “Boss” and citing a prior discussion between the two, an FBI…
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Don’t fumble, Puka Nacua. You’ll never get a better chance to help win a Super Bowl
Do you think the Rams have a tracker at their headquarters for how many days it’s been since Puka Nacua’s last embarrassing incident? They might. Because we all remember how frequently the self-inflicted damages were occurring during that bizarre and jarring stretch starting late last year. We had the biting incident and alleged antisemitic comments…
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Trump’s ‘sure loser’ court case about to ‘blow up’ in DOJ’s face: expert
Embattled Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is on track to have a high-profile prosecution “blow up in his face,” an expert said Thursday. Thee Justice department’s “seashell” case against former FBI Director James Comey is a farce that should never have seen the light of day, former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg claimed…
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Eccentric biohacker Bryan Johnson who uses his son as a ‘blood boy’ makes unbelievable U-turn
Bryan Johnson, the eccentric US tech millionaire, has stunningly admitted he may have gone too far in his quest to defy death. The 48-year-old made the candid confession on X on Wednesday following his diagnosis with an autoimmune disease. “Been thinking things over and wonder if I’ve taken this whole longevity thing too far,” he…
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When the Narrator Is a Very Good Boy
The first animal narrator to make an impression on me was an amiable mutt named Harold, who, with remarkable lucidity, recounts the peculiar events of James and Deborah Howes’s 1979 novel, Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery. The book, written for and beloved by children, boasts a winning premise by any metric: A fanged rabbit’s benign…
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Real stunts, relatable emotions: How ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is fighting superhero fatigue
Almost five years ago, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” swung into theaters in the teeth of a COVID-19 surge and did what almost nothing else could that winter: drove cooped-up moviegoers to cinemas and opened to one of the biggest domestic debuts on record, pulling in $260 million. This weekend, Peter Parker is back — a…