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Super pollutants — California sues Trump administration for ignoring climate-changing fridge chemicals
California and 19 other attorneys generals are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for reversing action on high-polluting refrigerants. President Trump announced in May that grocery stories and air conditioning companies would get several more years to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, a class of very climate-damaging chemicals used in cooling equipment. The change is slated…
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‘Censure her!’ Right-wingers in tatters as Jasmine Crockett slams ‘White Pride rally’
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called a House Smithsonian hearing “the Republicans’ White Pride rally,” and conservatives immediately demanded she be censured. Crockett spoke Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee’s Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee — the first time a top Smithsonian leader had faced public congressional scrutiny since President Donald Trump targeted the institution, according…
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Olivia Wilde Recalls Meeting Elon Musk ‘Before He Turned Into This Creature’
Olivia Wilde is remembering a meeting she had with Elon Musk “before he turned into this creature” and began stumping for MAGA and Donald Trump. On Monday’s episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast,” the “Invite” director-actress went into detail about a meeting she took with Musk after SpaceX set up their headquarters in Los Angeles.…
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Iraq’s Man in the Middle
Every Iraqi prime minister since the fall of Saddam Hussein has inherited the same impossible job: Convince Washington that Iraq is not slipping entirely into Iran’s orbit while convincing Tehran that it is not becoming an American outpost. Iraq’s new prime minister now faces that challenge under the most trying of circumstances. The United States…
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Meet ‘Gillian’: The untold story of ‘Phantom of the Opera’s’ 2,000-pound chandelier
It’s over 8 feet tall, nearly 11 feet wide and travels by 53-foot semitrailer. It’s covered in more than 20,000 beads and weighs almost 1 ton — or about 2,000 pounds. And eight times a week, it’s dropped atop the heads of people who pay for the privilege — just a few feet short of…
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AOC issues dire warning about planned GOP ‘trick’ to pass voting restrictions
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to X on Tuesday to warn that Republicans have a stealth plan to try to implement President Donald Trump‘s desired national restrictions on voting rights. The issue concerns a bill being introduced by Republicans to prohibit insider trading on stocks by members of Congress — which, according to Ocasio-Cortez, would…
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‘The Dink’ Review: Apple TV’s Pickleball Comedy Courts Disaster
Some movies make us scream. Others make us cry. Comedies, like Josh Greenbaum’s “The Dink,” usually try to make us laugh. But as I watched “The Dink” unfurl on Apple TV, the only noise I wanted to make was “blah.” And not just a little “blah.” This was more like a blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If you’re reading…
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‘A five-alarm fire’: Western reservoirs that supply California fall to record low levels
Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim marker in the deepening water crisis across seven states that depend on the Colorado River. The two reservoirs are now lower than the previous record in 2023, researchers say. “It’s a hell of a…
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Trump admin lawyer denies backing Tate brothers via ‘politically driven prosecutions’ post
A Trump administration official with a history of advocating for Andrew and Tristan Tate is backing away from his association with the social media influencer brothers facing criminal charges for sex trafficking in the UK — after making a post on X denouncing “politically driven persecutions.” Paul Ingrassia, the acting general counsel for the U.S.…
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ESPN Layoffs: NFL Analyst Ryan Clark Exits After Mid-Broadcast Firing
ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark learned he’d been laid off by the company while he was in the middle of a show. Clark was taping “NFL Live” on Monday when he was informed during a commercial break he was among those affected by ESPN’s latest round of layoffs, TheWrap has learned. He did not return…