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Decades after Congress cleared the way for the United States government to wage war in Iraq, a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of voting to repeal two Authorizations for Use of Military Force, setting in motion a push that — if successful — would mark the first successful retraction of congressional authority to launch war on a foreign nation in nearly half a century. 

Ike has been spiked at Disney. 

Disney on Wednesday laid off Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, the chair of Marvel Entertainment, according to The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter.

The billionaire was informed over the phone that Marvel Entertainment, which is separate from the film studio Marvel Studios and deals with consumer products, is redundant and will "be folded into larger Disney business units," the Times reported. Disney also reportedly laid off Marvel Entertainment co-president... Читать дальше...

California's extreme rain and snow may cause a once-lost lake to re-emerge, Axios reports. The season's snowmelt could cause the state's Tulare Lake to return after being dried up for approximately 80 years, according to Newsweek. 

A group of 33 swimmers in Hawaii has been accused of "aggressively pursuing, corralling, and harassing" a pod of dolphins by the state's wildlife officials. 

Jeremy Renner is opening up for the first time about the snow plow accident that could have killed him. 

Actress Melissa Joan Hart has revealed she was close to the Nashville school where a mass shooting took place this week and helped children to safety. 

Amsterdam is launching a new online campaign urging young British men to "stay away" if they plan to visit the city to "go wild," CNN reports. 

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Abby Grossberg, a Fox News producer for hosts Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, was chased with a restraining order by the network and eventually fired after Fox alleged she disclosed private information about the Dominion lawsuit. Her dismissal came after Grossberg sued Fox, claiming that the network had pressured her into lying under oath, and evidence just unveiled in an amended batch of her legal filings outlines additional allegations against the network. Here is just some of what Grossberg has alleged the company was up to... Читать дальше...

France is a lot of things — refined, proud, particular about its language, a center of arts and fashion, a land of wine and cheese, one of the world's top tourist destinations — but it isn't generally thought of as a locus of industrial efficiency. If Germans are hard-working, beer-guzzling automata in the popular imagination, the French are fainéant wine-sipping aesthetes and bon vivants. 

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Tuesday that Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) unilateral blockade of 160 senior military promotions over the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, and vow to tie up hundreds more, was harming national security. Austin told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that "not approving the recommendations for promotions" creates a powerful "ripple effect" through the armed forces that "will impact on our readiness" and disrupt military families.

The board of the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida last week pressured the principal, Hope Carrasquilla, to resign after three parents of sixth-graders complained that their children had been shown an image of Michelangelo's David — a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture — without their knowledge. One of the parents said the statue, which depicts the heroic Biblical figure standing nude, was "pornographic." 

An Australian company that specializes in lab-grown meat announced Tuesday that it has created a large meatball made from woolly mammoth, an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years. The company, Vow, unveiled its mammoth meatball at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. 

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been ordered by a federal judge to testify before a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, people familiar with the matter told The New York Times, NBC News, and CNN.