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Hosts and listened to an audio clip of Donald Trump crapping on Mitch McConnell’s popularity and they agreed with him, sorta.
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After serving as a Buffalo police officer for 30 years, Aaron Salter Jr. spent the last four working as a security guard at the Tops Friendly Markets store on the east side of the city.
That’s where he was Saturday afternoon when a gunman opened fire.
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UPDATE: Gisele Fetterman on her husband John’s condition: “The good news is he’s feeling much better and the doctors say he’s well on his on the way to a full recovery�
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This “Conversations With Friends� star wants more sex on TV
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A person using the same social media handle as the shooting suspect's Twitch account shared racist and antisemitic comments on Reddit and Discord in the months before the attack
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UPDATE: One dead, five wounded in church shooting in Laguna Woods, California; undersheriff says many of those in the church were of Taiwanese descent
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"Saturday Night Live" took a break from politics this week to instead bring viewers “live� coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard “cuckoo� trial
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A Black driver killed white people at a holiday parade last year—and the right-wing freakout about it may have factored into the rampage in Buffalo
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According to a statement he posted Sunday, he suffered “a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long.� He credited his wife, Gisele, for quickly spotting the signs and prodding him to seek medical treatment.
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An Alabama judge’s injunction means doctors and parents can still provide gender-affirming care for trans teenagers, but school staff remain required to tell on trans students
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Director Alex Garland (“Ex Machina,� “Annihilation�) and star Rory Kinnear discuss their terrifying creation—where a number of men (all Kinnear) stalk and torment a grieving widow
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OPINION | Republicans and the conservative media ecosystem have to answer for the blood on their hands, writes
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BREAKING: Multiple victims reported at church shooting in Laguna Woods, California
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EXCLUSIVE: Police believe one line was the name of Virginia Sorenson, a member of the “Dancing Grannies� parade troupe who was killed in the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin’s annual Christmas parade, a law enforcement source told The Daily Beast
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OPINION | Free speech proponents should shun the people who push lies so vile and dangerous that they should be ostracized in the “marketplace of ideas," writes
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According to the Daily Mail, he was enrolled in a politics class in which students were able to create their own countries; a classmate said that he opted for a “Hitler-esque� totalitarian government in his imagined nation
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Mass shootings are socially contagious. Perpetrators study other perpetrators and learn from each other, which may explain the rise in supermarket shootings in the past few years
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Garnell Whitfield Jr. had traveled to the scene of the mass shooting after hearing about it, only to discover that his own mother was among the dead. “She was a wonderful mother. She loved us, her family, unconditionally,� he said. “She was our hero.�
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An historic heat wave in India is damaging crops and food inflation is surging, putting the nation's own food security “at risk�
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It’s a question that’s been asked many times before, but as "The Time Traveler’s Wife" makes its HBO Max debut, feels we must ask again: Why is Hollywood so obsessed with wives, anyway?
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"There’s one way to track SARS-CoV-2 without relying on drive-through testing sites or testing at pharmacies, clinics or hospitals. More and more, scientists are looking for the virus in sewer water. In our toilet flushes, in other words," writes
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"The hotel’s 83 rooms occupy a building that make you feel at every turn of the stairs and every glance out of a floor-to-ceiling window as though you’ve wandered onto a "Downton Abbey" set," writes
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Gov. Hochul says she is “watching to make sure the leaders of these social media companies are going to take responsibility and do much more to do monitoring themselves of content that is placed on their platforms before it is spread�
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UPDATE: Buffalo police told reporters that two days earlier, 18-year-old Payton Grendon checked out the Tops Friendly Market as he was looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents to inflict a targeted massacre
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“This is an absolute racist, hate crime. It will be prosecuted as a hate crime. This is someone who has hate in their hearts, soul, and mind,� Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said in a Sunday press conference
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In another development of the Musk-Twitter saga, the Tesla CEO revealed that the social media giant’s legal team has accused him of violating a nondisclosure agreement
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Indeed, Charlie Puth seems to have found a completely cost-free marketing tactic that works for him, a time-honored classic employed by many male musicians since the dawn of time: straight-up queerbaiting
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The U.S. government has acknowledged a link between toxic water at Camp Lejeune and a variety of serious illnesses—but these families wonder why justice is taking so long.
“We never had any cancer in our family history until Camp Lejeune.�
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After a student complained of stomach pain and others reported experiencing similar symptoms, staff traced the discomfort back to the contaminated Cheetos
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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown suggested on Sunday morning that real changes regarding gun control and hate speech would occur in the aftermath of this weekend’s horrific mass shooting that rocked his city
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MEN, the latest film about female trauma and toxic masculinity from Alex Garland ('Ex Machina'), is a total trip with a jaw-dropping finale
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“A school official reported that this very troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after.�
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“For some reason, the 10PM-er has a real hate-on for Oz,� Levin said of Ingraham, who hosts the 10 p.m. slot. “I don’t hate Oz. I don’t hate McCormick. I think they’re both terrific men�
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'Relieved' 'Elated' 'We will never stop fighting' I spoke to Alabama trans teens, their families, and Dr. Morissa Ladinsky about a judge's injunction that means gender-affirming care can continue for now, even as school staff must still tell on trans kids.
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I spoke with writer/director Alex Garland and star Rory Kinnear about my favorite movie of the year to date, “Men.�
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Declaring Nebraska a “pro-life state,� Gov. Pete Ricketts stated that he believes life begins at conception before affirming that he believes rape victims should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term
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“We barely made it, there were lots of elderly people among us,� 74-year-old Nikolai Pavlo, who had been hiding in his basement with scant supplies for weeks, told Reuters. “The trip was devastating. But it was worth it.�
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