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Yesterday’s rally in Washington, D.C. to support the January 6th insurrectionists fizzled within a couple of hours.  Police and reporters outnumbered the several hundred Pro-Trump […]

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The New York Times posted a multimedia presentation yesterday entitled “Why the Empire State Building, and New York, May Never Be the Same.”   Developed by Keith Collins, Nikolas Di […]

Elise Stefanik

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Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) hometown newspaper offered a scathing response to her anti-immigrant rhetoric in a recent ad campaign.

Stefanik, a […]

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Bestselling author Don Winslow’s latest viral video hammers Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) with the observation that his state’s death toll from COVID-19 will soon surpass the num […]

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A key advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly rejected recommending Pfizer booster shots for most recipients of the company’s coronavirus vaccine, instead e […]

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Calling former President Donald J. Trump “a cancer for the country,” Representative Anthony Gonzalez, Republican of Ohio, said in an interview yesterday that he would not run for re- […]

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Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and McKala Maroney ripped the FBI and the Justice Department in Senate testimony (see videos above and below) ) on Wednesday for how FBI agents mishandled […]

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On the flight returning from Slovakia, Francis was asked for his opinion about the debate within the U.S. Bishops Conference, about whether Biden, who is Catholic, should be denied […]

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Fearful of Donald Trump’s actions in his final weeks as president, the United States’ top military officer twice assured his Chinese counterpart that the two nations would not go to […]

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Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger called the former president Donald Trump a “snowflake” and “one of the weakest men that I’ve ever seen” in an interview (see video above) Mo […]

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California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday emphatically defeated a recall aimed removing him from office, a contest the Democrat framed as part of a national battle for his party’s v […]

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The longest shutdown in Broadway history is over.
Some of the biggest shows in musical theater, including “The Lion King,” “Wicked” and “Hamilton,” resumed performances last night, […]

Gavin Newsom and Larry Elder
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Californians will be voting today whether or not to recall Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.  In  TV ads and rallies, Gov. Newsom has been urging v […]

Antony Blinken
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified at the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday that, “as of the end of last week, we had about 100 American citizens in A […]

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My colleague, David Bloomfield alerted me to this article that appeared in Chalkbeat yesterday that comments on what to look for in the coming months in the New York City public […]

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Maureen Dowd had a column yesterday in The New York Times entitled, “Manning Up, Letting Us Down,” that commented on the tendency of American presidents and their close advisers to […]

Emma Raducanu
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Until three months ago, 18-year old Emma Raducanu had never played in a professional tennis tour-level event.  Yesterday she won the US Open.  It was quite a match and R […]

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Former President George W. Bush spoke yesterday at the Flight 93 National Memorial, where one of many events was being held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, t […]

In the weeks and months after 9/11, as funerals and memorial services were held for those who perished in the attack, especially for the 343 firefighters, bagpipes were heard playing Amazing Grace.  

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The Princeton Review earlier this week released its annual list of the country’s best colleges. Included on this year’s list, which features 387 institutions, are private schools […]