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Beauty queen stripped of crown for racist tweets takes over state GOP’s digital media
In 2019, Kathy Zhu was stripped of her title in the Miss Michigan beauty queen pageant due to offensive tweets deemed by many to be racist and Islamophobic. Almost seven years later, she’s handling digital media for the Michigan House Republicans. Zhu has been employed as digital strategist director for the Republican Central Staff at
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Trump warns he may cut US troop presence in Germany after Iran feud
President Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the US military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the US-Israel war against Iran. Trump made the threat after Merz earlier this week said that the US was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack
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L.A. council member pushes plan to let noncitizens vote in city elections
Los Angeles voters could be asked this year to take the first step toward giving noncitizens the right to vote in city and school board elections. City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who represents an Echo Park-to-Hollywood district, released a proposal Wednesday to ask voters in the Nov. 3 election to give the council the power to
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GOP ‘fissure’ erupts over Trump’s new attack on late-night comedian: report
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr’s decision to initiate an early renewal review of Disney’s broadcast licenses is creating divisions within the Republican Party, with some lawmakers expressing concern about potential government censorship while others defend his authority to investigate diversity practices. Carr cited Disney’s diversity, equity, and inclusion practices as the reason for the
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California’s ocean is breaking heat records — but we can control it
The marine ecosystem along Southern California’s coastline is in crisis. Sea surface temperatures are hitting record highs, rivaling the devastating marine heat wave known as “the Blob” that wreaked havoc on West Coast fisheries and ecosystems a decade ago. Scientists from NOAA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources are
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‘Reckoning’ as new Epstein scandal surfaces involving ‘cash-strapped’ female athletes
Harvard University reportedly concealed the true source of a $25,000 donation to its women’s rugby team, allowing athletes to believe the money came from university leadership when it actually originated from convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein. According to an investigation by podcaster Pablo Torre and Harvard Crimson staffers Dhruv Patel, Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A.
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Micah Lasher, Child Magician
I’m meeting with Micah Lasher at a diner on the Upper West Side. The last time I saw him was also at an Upper West Side diner. That was 32 years ago. He was 12. I was 22. He was interviewing me for a job. Lasher is running for Congress in the June 23 Democratic
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Amid backlash over World Cup parking and transportation, LA Metro offers a solution
Ticket prices are just the start of the soaring expenses many fans will face while trying to watch World Cup games this summer. NJ Transit is charging $150 for round-trip tickets from Manhattan to the Meadowlands (the regular price is $12.60) for the World Cup final, while host committee shuttle buses will cost $80. The
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Ex-Trump aide’s defense of Supreme Court race ruling meets furious pushback on CNN
A former Trump administration official downplayed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on voting rights but met pushback from his fellow panelists on CNN. The conservative majority essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act’s requirement that congressional districts be designed to give minority voters an opportunity to elect their own representatives, and former Donald Trump aide Mike
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Biden admin ‘zealously’ probed ‘traditional’ Christians — even keeping tabs on priests: DOJ report
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration “zealously” investigated, penalized, and engaged in “aggressive prosecutions” of Christians “with traditional biblical views” — ignoring their conscientious objections and even secretly keeping tabs on Catholic priests, a Department of Justice task force found. The DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias released 14 findings Thursday, confirming the 46th president’s