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Why July 4 Turned Into a Trump Rally
The president of the United States announced last month that, in place of performances by Martina McBride, Young MC, the surviving members of the Commodores, one member of Poison, and other sought-after musicians who had dropped out after being recruited on apparently false pretenses, he would personally provide the entertainment for a 250th-anniversary celebration of…
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Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local
It is an oft-quoted—and always alarming—statistic that 34 percent of the world’s carbon emissions are caused by the construction industry, with a significant portion borne specifically from the production of concrete required to erect a standard structure today. At the same time, we are facing a global housing crisis, as a large population of people…
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Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion
The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to close 250 U.S. restaurants. The pizza chain has struggled with outdated stores and growing competition. Pizza Hut was founded in 1958…
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Epstein’s final weeks detailed in explosive report: ‘Woke up to him standing in the dark’
Jeffrey Epstein’s life may have been in danger while locked up in a federal jail in New York more times than previously known, an explosive New York Times report revealed on Tuesday, which included previously unreported details about the convicted child sex offender’s final weeks. One of Epstein’s cellmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC)…
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Lucy Halliday Wants ‘The Testaments’ to Open People’s Eyes: ‘This Show Is My Position’
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Bruce Miller’s Emmy-winning Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal dystopian novel, follows June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) as she attempts to escape from Gilead, a fascist post-America where women are valued only for their childbearing ability. In his sequel series, “The Testaments,” also adapted from Atwood’s novel of the same name, Lucy…
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In Praise of a Dumb House
My husband Harry works in tech, and every January he makes his yearly pilgrimage to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where some 4,100 exhibitors are spread across 2.6 million square feet. The dominant concept at this year’s edition was that, very soon, anything you put in your house will be compatible with…
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U.S. military leaders are enabling Trump’s lawlessness
In January, the United States sent military forces into Venezuela, killing more than 50 people, to capture Nicolás Maduro to face federal charges. By even the most generous reading, that raid was legally questionable. A more honest reading sees it as an illegal use of military force to accomplish what the government itself treated as…
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Why the Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads
Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, writes, this is the first time in over five years that this Court refused to “un-block an execution that a lower court had put on hold,” at least…
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Ghislaine Maxwell forms ‘highly secretive’ prison crew as rumors swirl behind bars: report
Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly assembled a “highly secretive” prison group behind bars as more details behind her incarceration at a minimum security facility have been revealed, The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. The former partner and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein has befriended three women and allegedly sees them as the “finest and best educated” among…
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Rhea Seehorn Loves That Female Anger Is Deadly in ‘Pluribus’
The details were not important to Rhea Seehorn. All she needed to know was that Vince Gilligan had written a character for her in his first post-“Better Call Saul” project. After co-starring in that “Breaking Bad” spin-off for seven years — and earning two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series —…