Author: Nate
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The White House Wants a Permanent Fence Around the Park Where America Protests It
The White House Wants a Permanent Fence Around the Park Where America Protests It The U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with the Executive Office of the President and the Department of the Interior, presented a federal panel Thursday with a plan to erect a permanent 8-to-9-foot steel fence around Lafayette Park and the closed sections…
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Acting AG’s Confirmation Hangs on a Meeting With Epstein Survivors That Left Everyone Angrier
Acting AG’s Confirmation Hangs on a Meeting With Epstein Survivors That Left Everyone Angrier Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday afternoon with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein at the Justice Department, a session demanded by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., as a condition of his vote to advance Blanche’s nomination through the Senate Judiciary Committee. The…
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ICE Kept Promising Body Cameras. Two More Men Died Before Any Showed Up.
ICE Kept Promising Body Cameras. Two More Men Died Before Any Showed Up. Federal immigration agents fatally shot two men in the span of less than a week this month — Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, in Houston on July 7, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 26, in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13. Neither man was…
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Trump’s Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on What Trump Would Say — Now the Whole Crypto Bill Is on Fire
Trump’s Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on What Trump Would Say — Now the Whole Crypto Bill Is on Fire NPR reported Thursday that Gabriel Perez, who has operated President Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, placed bets through the prediction market platform Kalshi on the content of more than a dozen presidential speeches this year, profiting…
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Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is Now Spreading Faster Than Anyone Can Track It
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is Now Spreading Faster Than Anyone Can Track It The World Health Organization warned this week that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than any previous outbreak on record, with 2,273 confirmed cases and 796 deaths recorded since May, making it the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever…
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Candy Stall Blocked the Exit: Bangkok’s Deadliest Fire in 17 Years Exposes a Broken Safety System
Candy Stall Blocked the Exit: Bangkok’s Deadliest Fire in 17 Years Exposes a Broken Safety System The death toll from a fire that tore through Rong Beer Na Ladprao, a beer hall and live-music venue in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district, rose to 33 this week, with dozens more injured and over a dozen still in intensive…
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Trump’s Primetime “China Stole Your Vote” Speech Convinces No One and Reassures No One
Trump’s Primetime “China Stole Your Vote” Speech Convinces No One and Reassures No One President Trump delivered an unusual primetime address from the White House on Thursday evening, announcing the declassification of documents he said prove China carried out “the largest compromise of election data in history,” acquiring 220 million U.S. voter files — including…
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US Blitzes Iran for a Fifth Day as the World’s Most Vital Oil Chokepoint Grinds to a Halt
US Blitzes Iran for a Fifth Day as the World’s Most Vital Oil Chokepoint Grinds to a Halt The United States carried out a fifth consecutive day of strikes against Iran on Thursday, hitting an oil tanker near Iran’s main export terminal as part of an intensifying campaign to force Tehran to reopen the Strait…
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Intruder Screams Racial Slur at Craig Melvin Inside 30 Rock — Then NBC Fires the Guard Who Let Him In
Intruder Screams Racial Slur at Craig Melvin Inside 30 Rock — Then NBC Fires the Guard Who Let Him In A man identified by police as Andrew Truelove, 41, of Manhattan, breached security at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios on the morning of Thursday, July 16, entering an unauthorized vestibule area near Studio 1A at…
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God of War’s Kratos Gets Recast Mid-Shoot After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury — Four Finished Episodes Scrapped
God of War’s Kratos Gets Recast Mid-Shoot After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury — Four Finished Episodes Scrapped Amazon’s Prime Video will recast the lead role of Kratos in its live-action adaptation of Sony’s “God of War” video game franchise after star Ryan Hurst suffered a serious injury on set in Vancouver in late June, tearing…