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Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center
Donald Trump just won’t let go of his plans for the Kennedy Center. Less than three months after a federal judge ordered the president’s name stripped from the national arts center, Trump’s handpicked trustees have found a new way to try to put him back on the building. During a board meeting today, they voted…
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Americans are getting a rare break from an expensive law
Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century’s worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders. The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild and protect the U.S. merchant marine…
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‘That isn’t a threat’: Blistering warning as Trump DOJ inches toward contempt charge
A federal judge issued a blunt warning to Trump Justice Department lawyers this week, making clear his patience with stonewalling over the Epstein files is running thin. Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan didn’t mince words during Thursday’s public hearing, All Rise News reported — reminding the courtroom of his history of holding government attorneys…
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Anne Hathaway Shares Her Rule for Dogs Dying in Movies, Teases Fate of ‘End of Oak Street’ Pup
It’s been a banner year for Anne Hathaway at the box office — and it’s been a barking-good year for Hollywood’s canine actors as well, but maybe not for their on-screen characters. The actress has starred in “Mother Mary,” the blockbuster sequel “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and Christopher Nolan’s billion-dollar “The Odyssey.” Now, she’s…
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Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company
The Arena Group — the media company which, in 2023, allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish AI-generated fake writers in the pages of Sports Illustrated and multiple other brands — has rebranded as an AI company. The Arena Group, which owns brands including Parade, Men’s Health, and The Street, declared on Monday that…
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Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Harvard University
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students. The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said President Trump’s administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws. The judge said the lawsuit,…
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Trump’s staff furious after he left them as ‘sitting ducks’ in jet swap: insider
Senior staff was furious with President Donald Trump as more information surfaced about the jet plane swap in Turkey last month, a White House insider said on Thursday. Brian Karem, Raw America White House reporter, detailed how these Trump administration officials and a former White House press secretary reacted to news that Trump had abandoned…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Finale Viewership Slides 2% From Premiere With 21 Million Viewers
“House of the Dragon” closed out its third season to solid ratings. The Season 3 finale, which aired Sunday, Aug. 9, brought in 21 million viewers globally across HBO and HBO Max, according to live-plus-three-day internal viewing figures from Warner Bros. Discovery, with over 11 million of those views coming from in the U.S. That’s down…
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‘The Wrong Girls’ is the summer’s most gloriously stupid stoner comedy
“The Wrong Girls” is the right comedy if you want to unplug your brain and laugh. The first punchline doesn’t even have words. It’s just two stoner roommates, Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat), ripping a mega-hit and coughing at each other. Finally, they speak in unison: “Jinx.” Frankie, a Stanford dropout, engineered the…
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‘MAGA is coming apart’: Renowned historian zeroes in on signs of trouble for rattled Trump
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says the MAGA movement is falling apart — and that a rattled Donald Trump is growing weaker by the day. In her latest video, the author of the popular “Letters from an American” newsletter laid out what she called mounting signs the president’s coalition is fracturing. “MAGA certainly seems to be…