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Susan Collins warned on Fox News that her votes are about to come back to haunt her
A Fox News co-host said Friday that Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) could face a tough road in the upcoming elections to maintain her Senate seat in the fallout over the fatal ICE shooting in her state. Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov pointed out that since Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner stepped down from the race amid…
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Trump filled speech with asides as ‘brain-cooked’ loyalists found no ‘smoking gun’: report
President Donald Trump has insisted for years that the 2020 election was stolen from him. But according to a reporter covering his White House, the people Trump himself tasked with proving it came up disastrously empty. In a primetime address Thursday night, Trump alleged that China interfered in the 2020 race and that intelligence officials…
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Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get
The air quality this week is bad. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has turned the sky orange in Philadelphia. It has veiled the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan. In Detroit, which has dealt with some of the worst conditions in the country, the smoke has almost entirely blurred the city’s skyline. The eastern United States isn’t…
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For Los Primos del Este, writing new album ‘Dulce Amargo’ felt like therapy
When you walk into a room with Los Primos del Este, the happy-go-lucky guys immediately make you feel like part of the family. What they first cultivate with silly banter and lighthearted ad-libs eases into a more vulnerable, introspective atmosphere, comparable to a cathartic therapy session. When I met the norteño-sax band in at Interscope…
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‘Sees only white’: Hawaii Supreme Court burns down John Roberts for ‘naked racism’
Hawaii’s highest Court launched a rare attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, accusing the John Roberts-led bench of enabling “naked racism” and bending the Constitution to “whatever the Court needs it to be.” The broadside came buried inside a ruling handed down this week that threw out the controversial 1990 rape conviction of a Maui…
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Fast Takes: DSA pins hopes on Michigan, Maine Dems distrust their voters and more
From the right: DSA Pins Hopes on Michigan The implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine went “about as horribly as it possibly could have,” and now attention turns Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed’s run for US senate is “really thrilling DSA hearts,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty. El-Sayed accuses reporters of “fixating” on his calls to…
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Bryson DeChambeau might ditch British Open after controversial two-stroke penalty
Bryson DeChambeau thought he had finished Day 2 of the British Open in second place and just one stroke off the lead. He apparently thinks that should still be the case — but it’s not. After a lenghty, and at times animated, discussion involving DeChambeau, his caddie and officials, the U.S. golfer was assessed a…
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MAGA gov hopeful Mike Lindell isn’t registered to vote in state where he’s running: report
MyPillow CEO and outspoken election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell won President Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement for governor of Minnesota, leaving the GOP in the state flat-footed as they were trying to navigate a crowded field of other candidates — a situation Trump is also causing in some other states. But there’s a new complication, according…
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Celebrated California soul spot reopens with new menu, ‘a true representation of L.A.’
One of the city’s most celebrated California soul food restaurants just reopened with an even more creative global menu and its co-founder now fully at the helm. When chefs Keith Corbin and Daniel Patterson debuted Alta in 2018, the restaurant amassed a legion of followers who flocked to West Adams for Watts-raised Corbin’s version of…
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Did Trump fire someone trying to stop IRS abuses?
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump fired one of his own appointees who was reportedly trying to stop his team from illegally interfering with the IRS.…