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Biden, still very much running, jokes "whether Trump has it all together"
President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech at a Friday rally in Wisconsin, vowing to stay in the race, as an increasing number of Democratic lawmakers, donors, and advisors see him as a liability in defeating Donald Trump. Biden, who acknowledged that the first presidential debate wasn’t his “best performance,”...
"I was like, this sucks": Kevin Bacon tried living as a regular guy for a day
Kevin Bacon hasn't always been famous, but it's been quite a while since he could pass as an "average Joe." Curious to see what it would be like to spend a day as part of the general public, he recently disguised his appearance in an effort to walk amongst us undetected, but his attempt to fit in wasn’t as fun as he thought it would be.
Kansas Supreme Court strikes down second-trimester abortion ban, affirms right to abortion
Kansas’s Supreme Court has thrown out two restrictive abortion bans, reaffirming the right to an abortion in a 5-1 ruling. In a set of opinions penned by Democratic Governor-appointed justices Eric Rosen and Melissa Standridge, the court found that the Kansas constitution protected the right to an abortion, striking down the pair of laws.
Boebert's "DEI hire" remark towards Karine Jean-Pierre causes blowback
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is experiencing some blowback after calling White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a “DEI hire” in a recent rant on social media, blasting the Biden spokesperson for doing her job: speaking to the press. “I couldn’t care less about what @PressSec has to say...
Many popular tampon brands contain arsenic and lead: report
Fourteen popular brands of tampons sold in the U.S., U.K. and European Union have been found to contain toxic metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium, according to tests conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University. As reported by Newsweek on Thursday, 16 total types of toxic metals were found in the 30 products tested by public health researchers — but the scientists have not revealed which brands they tested, or which ones yielded the troubling results. Their findings were published Tuesday in the journal Environment International.
Diddy accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault in new lawsuit
Sean "Diddy" Combs on Wednesday was hit with the latest in a series of lawsuits filed against him alleging sexual assault and sex trafficking. The suit marks the ninth the disgraced hip-hop mogul has faced since last year when his former partner Cassie Ventura sued him. In the suit filed...
“I won't take sides on 9/11”: RFK Jr. promises transparency to conspiracists
Long-shot presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy vowed not to “take sides” on 9/11, promising transparency to his voters as he amplifies conspiracies. The independent candidate, poising himself as a more moderate option between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, validated doubters of the nature of the deadly terrorist attacks, in a rant on X.
Danny Trejo involved in Fourth of July fight sparked by thrown water balloon
Danny Trejo was involved in a brawl that took place at a Fourth of July parade in Los Angeles' Sunland-Tujunga neighborhood on Thursday. The incident, which was captured on video and posted to social media, shows Trejo exiting a convertible he was driving after a individual threw a water balloon at him. The actor appears to disembark from the car before approaching a man and throwing a punch at him, per KTLA5. The man retaliated, and a struggled ensued, leading Trejo to be restrained by other paradegoers.
Joy Reid: I'd "vote for Biden in a coma" to avoid "Hitler" in the White House
MSNBC host Joy Reid said she’d “vote for [President Joe] Biden in a coma” to avoid another term of Donald Trump, calling for unity within the party as some seek to push Biden off the ticket. Speaking in a TikTok video on the public calls among some...
With these simple, quick fish tacos, "summer eating does not get any better"
Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back to the people, places and experiences of your life. Her stories take you all around the South and are accompanied with tried-and-true recipes that are destined to become a part of your memory-making as you share them with your friends and family.
Why David Duchovny wrote in his own nude scene at 63: "I find that funny"
“It's all failure to me,” says David Duchovny. The Golden Globe-winning actor has led the kind of life most people would regard as a home run — a Masters degree from Yale, a string of iconic television roles on series including “Twin Peaks,” “Californication” and “The X-Files,” a lengthy and creative resume as an author, director, producer, podcaster and musician. Yet from his podcast “Fail Better” to the new movie he wrote, directed, co-produced and stars in (based on his novel “Bucky F*cking Dent”) there’s something about losing that he’s drawn to. And what more fitting metaphor for it than the famed 86 year-long “curse” of Boston Red Sox?
Trump challenges Biden to a second debate: "No holds barred"
“I have the answer to the Crooked Joe Biden Incompetence Puzzle," Donald Trump claims in a new Truth Social post. "Let’s do another Debate." Trump issued the challenge hours after he declared on the golf course that the president would drop out of the race for the White House, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as Trump's opponent. “She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic," he said of Harris on the Fourth of July.
Cup Noodles head-turning new flavor is inspired by a classic summer dessert
Cup Noodles's latest limited edition flavor is — , making it the first "dessert option" from the company known for its cheap and simple ramen soups. No, don't scroll up and check again, I assure you that you read that correctly. While the notion of s'mores soup is most...
Thanks to the Supreme Court's rulings "The Boys" dystopian America is closer to reality than ever
It’s been a long time since the Fourth of July meant anything besides the barebones version of what it is, which is a day off from work and a fine excuse to cook ribs. Holding your pet through their traumatized shuddering as neighbors set off illegal fireworks might also be in the cards, along with the traditional night-sky scanning (or TV viewing) for pyrotechnics.
A Republican revolt over Trump's abortion flip-flop threatens to blow up the GOP convention
One of the more obvious signs that the Republican Party had devolved into a cult of personality came in 2020 when the party decided to abandon writing a platform in advance of the election. GOP officials said that whatever Donald Trump wanted to do was fine with them. I don't think that's ever happened before but in the MAGA-fied GOP that sort of thing certainly isn't unusual. This year, however, they're going back to the tradition of writing an actual platform— and it's causing some unexpected heartburn.
How to survive a heat wave on a fixed income
Mone Choy is 68 and lives in the New York City neighborhood of Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, on a fixed disability income of $1,901 per month. Her rent is frozen at $1,928. She lives with chronic health issues that render her unable to work. In addition to a few other intermittent gigs, Choy covers the rest of her expenses by collecting bottles from her building’s recycling and taking them to a nearby redemption center.
Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead
When Project 2025 was released, a number of progressives expressed surprise that Donald Trump's army of authoritarian schemers would boldly publish their plan to destroy American government as we know it. The over 900-page document, commissioned by the people expected to run another Trump White House, is a laundry list of the far-right's most politically toxic ideas, from banning abortion nationwide to mass firing federal officials who believe in protecting public health and safety. One would think that Trump and his allies would try to keep their sinister plans out of public view. Instead, Team Trump published their fascistic blueprint on a website for anyone to read,. They even proudly display the menacing "Project 2025" label on the front page.
Who you gonna believe, Biden loyalists or your own eyes and ears?
During the week since President Joe Biden’s awful debate performance, spinners for his re-election campaign slowly began to admit what actually happened. Their desperate efforts to erase history could not blot out what 50 million viewers saw and heard. The conclusion is inescapable: Biden cannot be a credible candidate to defeat Donald Trump this fall.
"Scarcity mindset": As reproductive rights are eroded, abortion funds are running out of money
In 2024, the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood’s Justice Fund had the largest budget in its history. Still, on July 1, the organizations had to make the difficult decision to slash their budgets from giving 50 percent assistance to people to 30 percent with no exceptions. This comes at a time when many abortion clinics in the north are seeing a surge in patients as a repercussion of Florida’s six-week abortion ban, and as Iowa’s six-week ban is expected to take effect later this month.
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