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‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
GRANBY, Colo. — High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The water-generating source of the Colorado River, its headwaters, is drying up. “I grew up here…
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MAHA is breaking up with Trump. Now what?
Donald Trump is not exactly a health influencer: The 47th president famously loves fast food and Diet Coke, and reportedly eschews both sleep and exercise. But Trump’s political power comes in part from a group of exceedingly health-conscious Americans. Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again movement, led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., helped propel…
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‘Snake pit’: Carville says Trump’s White House days numbered as admin ‘leaks like a sieve’
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville says the wave of damaging leaks emerging from the Trump administration is far from over — and could ultimately bring down the presidency itself. Speaking on his “Politics War Room” podcast, Carville addressed revelations from “Regime Change,” a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan,…
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A proposed law would let California government escape accountability
Legislation that would dramatically undermine Californians’ right to know — and therefore undermine local democracy — could be on the threshold of becoming law if enough legislators and members of the public don’t stand up to stop it. Assembly Bill 1821 by Assemblywoman Blanca Pacheco (D-Downey) is perhaps unique in its aggressive, omnibus approach to…
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Trump’s deep unpopularity the only certainty in ‘wildly uncertain’ landscape: report
American politics is undergoing a structural realignment that has scrambled the usual left-right predictive tools, leaving President Donald Trump’s unpopularity as perhaps the only fixed point in an otherwise volatile landscape. Trump’s disapproval has settled at roughly 60 percent, a remarkably stable number amid chaos everywhere else in the political system, but that stability isn’t…
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This Buy-It-For-Life Coffee Maker Just Won Prime Day
Go to any home in Scandinavia. Look on the counter. There, you will find a majestic coffee maker that has probably lived on that home’s counter for as long as your host has been an adult. That magical device is called a Moccamaster. It will make you some of the best coffee of your life.…
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Don’t let Trump empower Todd Blanche, his modern-day Roy Cohn
“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” President Trump famously asked in his first term, angrily despairing at not having an attorney general who’d serve his interests, no holds barred, just as Trump’s reptilian mentor and fixer Cohn had done for clients from the notorious red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy to New York mob bosses and a young Trump.…
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Secret deals silenced Epstein’s accusers — but Congress may have a way around them
Seeking to break up the logjam created by the Department of Justice, which continues to drag its feet on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, members of the House Oversight Committee have discussed issuing subpoenas to people who could testify about secret settlements between some of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends and his accusers. According to Business Insider…
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Louisiana pastor Tony Spell attacked neighbor who allegedly threatened to rape and kill wife
A Louisiana pastor is accused of attacking his neighbor who hurled expletives and allegedly threatened to rape and kill his wife as the pair brawled across from the church. Tony Spell, the 48-year-old pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church, was arrested on battery charges for beating his neighbor’s 20-year old son on Tuesday, according to…
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Legendary restaurant Mr. Chow to stay put at Tribeca location
He’s not Mr. Ciao after all! Recent reports announced the sad news that Mr. Chow was leaving his beloved Tribeca location after 20 years. But Page Six has learned that the legendary restaurateur has cut a deal, and he’ll be staying at the spot after all. Reports surfaced in April that the lease on 121…