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The New York Times has sued the State Department to gain access to U.S. embassy emails mentioning Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, Insider reported Tuesday, citing court filings.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday used some rather ... blunt phrasing when discussing with reporters the current state of affairs as they relate to Build Back Better negotiations, Bloomberg reports.

America's three largest drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay Native American tribes ravaged by the opioid crisis up to $665 million, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Graham Nash and India Arie clearly aren't satisfied with Spotify's response to its Joe Rogan controversy.

Is it time to impeach Donald Trump a third time? 

The week is young, but it has already been thick with fresh revelations about the former president's attempts to steal the 2020 election. On Sunday, Trump released a statement that — perhaps inadvertently — explicitly stated he'd wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to "change the results of the election." Then, Monday night, The New York Times reported Trump had been more directly involved than previously known in never-executed proposals... Читать дальше...

For a perfectionist, it was a messy ending. Legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady's retirement came first as a rumor, walked back through a series of non-denial denials, culminating in a social media post that confirmed what had gone from unthinkable to seemingly inevitable. 

After baseless claims suggesting former Vice President Mike Pence could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump is back with another charge — this one directed at the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, calling on them to investigate why Pence did not on Jan. 6 "reject electoral college votes from several states won by Joe Biden," reports The Washington Post.

Tom Brady has officially retired from the NFL. So, what's next? Judging from his previous statements, the answer to that question could be "politics."

There's something odd about the protest against Spotify's mega-podcaster Joe Rogan.

The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League joined The View for a discussion about anti-Semitism Tuesday, one day after co-host Whoopi Goldberg controversially claimed the Holocaust was "not about race."

Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of Myanmar's military coup, an occasion marked by a lethal explosion, an instance of self-immolation, and "silent strikes" by opponents of the governing junta, Reuters reports.

Now that legendary quarterback Tom Brady has officially announced his retirement from the NFL, it's time to reflect on his storied career — including the very last touchdown pass he ever threw.

A lawyer for R. Kelly said Tuesday the disgraced R&B singer needs more time to appeal his conviction after contracting COVID-19 in jail.

Ukraine's army may have trouble transitioning from low-level conflict with Russian-backed separatists to full-scale war with Russia, a New York Times report published Tuesday claimed.

The GOAT has officially left the building ... er, the stadium.

Football legend and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady on Tuesday confirmed his retirement in a lengthy Instagram post, bringing an end to his legendary 22-season run.

In explaining his decision, Brady, 44, said he was no longer going to make the "competitive commitment" required to be a part of the NFL, and instead plans to "focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention."

"My teammates... Читать дальше...

Jennifer Lopez is opening up about the most important reboot of 2021: the return of Bennifer. 

Several historically Black colleges and universities have received bomb threats for the second consecutive day, and at least the third time in the past month. 

AT&T has announced plans to spin off its interest in WarnerMedia as part of the company's merger with Discovery. 

Whoopi Goldberg took a conversation on Monday's The View about a Tennessee school board banning the Holocaust graphic novel Maus and turned it into a daylong controversy about Judaism, race, and whether Nazis were racist or just evil. "If you're going to do this, then let's be truthful about it," she said. "Because the Holocaust isn't about race," but rather "about man's inhumanity to other man."

Book banning has returned to American schools. It's targeting authors who deal with race, sexuality, and gender, and it's moving with a fervency that should alarm not only anyone concerned about he plight of authors but ultimately anyone worried about how American history is taught, because this is an effort to erase some of us from sharing our stories. Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks.

With the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic bearing down on us, and the dreaded Omicron wave beginning to recede after proving highly contagious but mild for nearly anyone vaccinated and boosted, growing numbers of people appear eager, at long last, to get "back to normal."

"Over the weekend, former President Trump held a rally in Texas where he talked about running for president and said that if he won, he might pardon the Jan. 6 rioters," Jimmy Fallon said on Monday's Tonight Show. "Even the rioters were like, 'Oh, no, I don't think you can say that. No.' Yeah, there's no better way to announce a presidential run than saying: 'I'll empty the jails!'"

"After months of trying to convince anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and anti-social distancers that lifesaving measures are both for their own good and for that of others," many people are frustrated and some may even give in to gloating when a prominent anti-vaxxer dies of COVID-19, Fr. James Martin writes in a New York Times essay. But "crowing over someone's suffering or demise" is "cruel," and "no matter how much I disagree with anti-vaxxers, I know that schadenfreude over their deaths is a dead... Читать дальше...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke out against anti–vaccine mandate protesters who vandalized property in Ottawa and harassed the staff and clients at a homeless shelter. 

The federal Bureau of Prisons placed all federal prisons on lockdown Monday after a fight at the federal penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, left two inmates dead and two injured. The altercation involved members of the MS-13 street gang, The Associated Press reports, and the Bureau of Prisons took the unusual step of locking down the more than 120 federal prisons out of concerns that the violence would spread in cascading acts of retaliation.