[ad_1] CNN — Senate Democrats railed against Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday amid reports that the Supreme Court conservative failed to disclose luxury travel, gifts and a real estate transaction involving a GOP megadonor, but their plan to investigate the conservative jurist remains unclear. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin has promised that his committee will […]
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[ad_1] The Cannes Film Festival began this week with Maïwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” starring Johnny Depp as Louis XV, and ends on May 27 with a new Pixar film, “Elemental.” In between, there will be many screenings, many awkward standing ovations, many awards bestowed. This is the first year I (kind of) understand the difference […]
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[ad_1] For anyone who wants to learn a new language or practice a new skill, Rosetta Stone’s “Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription Bundle” may have you covered. Right now you can get permanent access to Rosetta Stone and StackSkills for $170.90 (discounted from $749) with code ROSETTA10. There’s no shortcut to learning a new language or […]
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[ad_1] A Texas man, who is a suspect in the 2016 hit-and-run death of a teenager, was arrested in Mexico along with his mother, after the duo spent the past several years on the run, authorities said this week. Thomas Bernal, 25, and his mother, Debra Bernal, 51, were taken into custody by U.S. Marshals […]
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[ad_1] CNN — Millions of Americans could face massive consequences unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he has set for President Joe Biden that is instead threatening to capture his House Republicans. The California Republican traveled to Wall Street on Monday to deliver a fresh warning that the House GOP […]
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[ad_1] Midway through his face-to-face meeting with President Biden in Indonesia last fall, the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, offered an unsolicited warning. Mr. Biden had in the preceding months signed a series of laws aimed at supercharging America’s industrial capacity and imposed new limits on the export of technology to China, in hopes of dominating […]
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[ad_1] As a teen and young adult, I drank a lot of full-sugar sodas—Mountain Dew, mostly. One day I decided that I would swap them all out for their diet equivalents, and the resulting loss of calories would mean I’d drop an easy five, maybe ten pounds by the end of the year. I stuck […]
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[ad_1] A serial stalker accused of groping women in San Francisco last year was convicted of multiple crimes, authorities said Wednesday. Bill Gene Hobbs, 34, would approach victims and make unwanted advances, prosecutors said. He would touch them and then flee, authorities said. A jury convicted him on charges of false imprisonment, sexual battery, battery […]
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[ad_1] ‘Difficult to say with a straight face’: Tapper reacts to Fox News’ statement on settlement A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said. [ad_2] Source link
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[ad_1] Heat likely to break records in the next five years Temperatures are likely to soar to record highs over the next five years, driven by human-caused warming and the El Niño climate pattern, World Meteorological Organization forecasters said. There is also a two-thirds chance that one of the next five years could be 1.5 […]