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14+ min ago   (422+ words) TM: I thought I’d share a passage from your book, American Insurgents, that makes the same points, and I think very powerfully: TM: What you’re pointing out about the buildup of the newspaper industry—which Benjamin Franklin played a crucial…...

8+ min ago   (48+ words) President Donald Trump appalled one political analyst on Monday with a "quintessential" Trumpian move to protect one of his legacy projects. Trump has engaged in multiple renovation projects across Washington, D.C., from multiple updates at the White House to pushing forward…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (709+ words) President Donald Trump has ordered a total blockade of Iranian shipments. The U.S. Navy's blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz marks a sharp escalation of tensions, shifting the American military toward direct maritime enforcement in a critical global…...

21+ min ago   (398+ words) Along with the all-time domestic record, the Marvel film has broken dozens of overseas and premium format records Sony/Marvel Studios’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” pulled off the seemingly impossible this weekend, passing the all-time domestic opening record of “Avengers:…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago   (228+ words) Republican roundup The Moore County News-Press The 17th annual Bee County Republican Roundup will be held Thursday, Sept. 3, at 6 p.m. at the Bee County Expo Center. The keynote speaker will be Governor Greg Abbot. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and dinner will be served…...

44+ min ago   (136+ words) rawstory.com 'I'm trying to compose myself!' CNN analyst awed by Trump's 'embarrassing' golf outing President Donald Trump stunned a CNN analyst on Monday by taking a "victory lap" about a golf tournament he allegedly won over the weekend. "[I]…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (126+ words) “The Senate’s stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown Oct. 1 has cleared the first procedural hurdle, putting it on track for passage before lawmakers leave for the August recess,” Politico reports. “Senators voted 89-4 to advance the measure, which would fund…...

6+ hour ago   (312+ words) “The U.S. Treasury Department was sued by a nonprofit group claiming the government is improperly withholding legal settlements that the Trump administration could use to cover payouts to pardoned Jan. 6 defendants and other supporters of the president,” Bloomberg reports. Goddard…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1250+ words) How half of the adult population goes through half of their lives —from the age of forty— within a process that their own physicians were not trained to see. Let us remember the obvious: more than half of adults are…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (198+ words) “Ted Lasso” is back with a new team, and Ryan Murphy is back with a new FX thriller on Hulu It’s the sweltering thick of summer, and while that often means a slowdown in TV releases, this week’s lineup of…...