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In private speech, JD Vance said the “Devil is real” and praised Alex Jones as a truth-teller
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Sen. J.D. Vance, whom Donald Trump named as his vice presidential running mate Monday, told a group of influential young conservatives in a closed-door speech in 2021 that they should stand up for “nonconventional people” who speak truth, such as Infowars founder Alex Jones.
Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy
This article was originally published on The Conversation. The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has recently become an icon for consumer transparency. From Apple's "Privacy Nutrition Labels" that disclose how smartphone apps handle user...
The politics of Dr. Ruth Westheimer
In 1984 Lifetime was only a few months old when it launched “Good Sex! With Dr. Ruth Westheimer.” It was apt programming for a basic cable network that specifically targets women, an audience segment accustomed to speaking frankly about sex, although mainly in whispers and with trusted confidantes.
Leaked video: Trump caught trying to recruit RFK Jr. by echoing his vaccine conspiracy theories
A video leaked on X shows a phone conversation between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump in which the GOP nominee expressed his shared concerns regarding vaccines. RFK Jr.’s son posted and later deleted the video in which Trump appears to repeat his old claims that childhood vaccines can be dangerous to babies, a belief that, in addition to being false, falls directly in line with RFK Jr.’s conspiracy theory that such vaccines can lead to autism, Axios reported.
Richard Simmons' cause of death is under investigation
Richard Simmons' cause of death is currently being investigated, People Magazine reported. The late exercise guru died on Saturday, one day after he celebrated his 76th birthday. It was reported that Simmons' housekeeper made a call to 911 after discovering him unresponsive in his home. Initial police statements said there...
New Jersey Senator Bob Mendendez found guilty on all counts in alleged bribery scheme
A Manhattan jury has found Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., guilty on all counts Tuesday following two months of trial and a little over two days of deliberation. Menendez, 70, had been charged with accepting gifts in exchange for political favors. An FBI raid in 2022 uncovered nearly $150,000 worth of gold bars and more than $480,000 in cash, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors accused the senator of using his office to protect the business interests of his corrupt donors, as well as disrupt efforts to investigate them and their relations with the government of Egypt.
"Bone chilling": Authoritarianism expert alarmed at RNC crowd reaction to bandaged Trump appearance
An authoritarianism expert expressed alarm Monday at the aggressive reactions from the crowd at the Republican National Convention when a bandaged Donald Trump entered the arena on Monday. Just days after Saturday's assassination attempt, Trump entered the convention with a bandaged ear as people in the crowd chanted “fight” and...
Dry-aged meats are a culinary classic. Why not dry-aged fish?
In March 2017, I visited my brother in Washington, D.C. and we visited The Dabney, a then-two-year-old restaurant that had been garnering lots of high praise. We were dropped off by an Uber or Lyft in the oddest, most unassuming area — essentially within an alley of some sorts, and only a few steps away was a large, wooden door next to a sign that read the name of the restaurant. I was intrigued by this and after walking inside and being immediately greeted with the smell of the large hearth as we were led to our table, I knew the experience would be a very pleasurable one.
Donald Trump hasn't called the family of a man killed at his rally
The wife of Corey Comperatore — the man who lost his life to a bullet possibly intended for Donald Trump — has yet to hear from the former president, she told the New York Post on Monday evening. The 50-year-old former fire chief was killed at the rally...
"I cannot believe this is real": Maddow stunned senator read wrong speech at Republican Convention
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was taken aback on Monday upon learning that a Wisconsin senator inadvertently read an incorrect speech during the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Monday night delivered a speech that was littered with inflammatory and divisive language, despite bipartisan...
Rural hospitals built during baby boom now face baby bust
OSKALOOSA, Iowa — Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. Those facilities, representing about a third of all Iowa hospitals, are located mostly in rural areas where birth numbers have plummeted. In some Iowa counties, annual numbers of births have fallen by three-quarters since the height of the baby boom in the 1950s and ’60s, when many rural hospitals were built or expanded, state and federal records show.
Arizona became the model for school voucher programs. Then they blew a huge hole in its budget
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could get a taxpayer-funded voucher worth up to tens of thousands of dollars to spend on private school tuition, extracurricular programs or homeschooling supplies.
Experts: Cannon issued "first court decision of Project 2025" — but it may be "blessing in disguise"
Two Trump-appointed judges, both asked to consider whether a special counsel can investigate the former president and his allies, have now produced two wildly different outcomes — a sign, perhaps, of how reactionaries on the federal judiciary have been emboldened over the years and now feel at liberty to rule as they wish.
Elon Musk may give $45 million a month to a pro-Trump super PAC
Elon Musk — who is currently the world’s richest man with a net worth of $250 billion — has claimed that he will commit about $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC, the Wall Street Journal reported, a story that the Tesla CEO appeared to confirm later in a post on X.
"You should be ashamed": Seth Meyers blasts Republican "conspiracy theories" about Trump shooting
Seth Meyers had choice words for Republicans blaming Democrats after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The "Late Night" host responded to incendiary social media posts from Trump's new running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., essentially placing blame on President Joe Biden for the shooting.
Neighbor saw Trump signs in front of Thomas Matthew Crooks' home before shooting
Investigators still don’t know why Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican, tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, despite accessing his phone, car and home. FBI officials spent Monday morning speaking with neighbors and those that knew Crooks, a 20-year-old who lived in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s WTAE reported....
Judge Cannon’s dismissal of Trump’s documents case is likely to be overturned — and she’s likely to get the boot
Judge Aileen Cannon ran her courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida, like a massage parlor for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best friends, and on Monday she wrapped up her special service when she dismissed all charges against Donald Trump in his trial for stealing and mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s attempts to recover them. Trump initially faced 31 felony counts of violating the Espionage Act, five counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and one count of making false statements. Cannon dismissed the case on procedural grounds, without ever considering the mountain of incriminating evidence against Trump:
"Shift spouses like they change their underwear": J.D. Vance decried divorce — but now loves Trump
MILWAUKEE — As recently as 2021, the newly announced Republican candidate for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, had harsh words for Americans who divorce, including those who did so to leave abusive marriages. Divorcees, Vance argued, are quitters who ruin their children's lives. "This is one of the...
The Supreme Court’s immunity decision is the gift that keeps giving to Donald Trump
Another day, another miraculous escape from serious jeopardy for Donald Trump. Like a Secret Service agent shielding their protectee from danger, Judge Aileen Cannon threw herself in front of a legal bullet heading Trump's way in the Florida classified documents case, throwing the whole thing out after slow walking the case for months.
Sea level rise causes local extinction of rare cactus, an omen for conservation efforts
As out-of-control heat cooks our planet, shattering temperature records for the last 13 consecutive months, it melts polar ice and raises sea levels. Most people are familiar with how this works, but we typically only think of the consequences of sea level rise as threatening to drown Miami, for example. But extinction is also a factor, as evidenced by recent news that the United States has suffered its first-ever local extinction as a result of sea levels rising. The victim is the iconic 20-foot tall Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii).
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