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Damar Hamlin's toy drive fundraiser tops $3 million in donations in hours after his on-field collapse
An online toy drive fundraiser started by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin topped $3 million in donations in the hours after the NFL star collapsed on the field during a game Monday night.
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Liz Cheney on charging Trump: 'That's a decision that the Justice Department is going to have to make'
Rep. Liz Cheney, a top House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump earlier this year, said Monday that it should be up to the Justice Department on whether to charge the former president for anything related to his actions on January 6.
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Russian car sales have collapsed since the invasion of Ukraine
Auto sales in Russia plummeted by almost two-thirds in March, as the war in Ukraine, Western sanctions and an exodus of foreign businesses wreaked havoc on the country's economy.
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A California law requiring more diversity on company boards is unconstitutional, judge rules
A judge in Los Angeles has ruled a law requiring public companies headquartered in California to diversify their boards violates the state's constitution, court documents show.
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How Republicans could still screw up the best political environment in 30 years
Mitch McConnell is feeling pretty good right about now. During an appearance at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, the Senate minority leader said that the "atmosphere for Republicans is better than it was in 1994," when the party won control of both the House and Senate in a wave election. "From an atmospheric point of view, it's a perfect storm of problems for Democrats because it's an entirely Democratic government," added McConnell.
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World's top oil trader will stop buying Russian crude
Vitol Group, the world's top independent oil merchant, will stop trading Russian crude oil and products by the end of the year, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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Joe Biden can't catch a break
The hits just keep on coming for Joe Biden.
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Two more states hit $5 a gallon gas prices
The gas price spike keeps getting worse. The national average jumped to $4.87 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. That's up 25 cents in the past week and 59 cents in the past month.
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Alley Theatre Announces the Cast & Creative Team of Cult Classic Clue
Alley Theatre kicks off its season with the return of the beloved Summer Chills series.
The Tony Award®-winning Alley Theatre announces the cast and creative team of its 76th season kick-off production – Clue, with screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, written by Sandy Rustin with additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price. Clue is based on the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture and the Hasbro board game. This production runs July 22 – August 28, 2022 in the Hubbard Theatre and is directed by Alley’s Associate Producer & Casting Director Brandon Weinbrenner.
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Merrick Garland says threats against Supreme Court justices are taken 'extraordinarily seriously'
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that the Justice Department takes threats against Supreme Court justices "extraordinarily seriously" as he voiced support for a bill that extends security protections to justices' immediate family members.
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US gas prices are just pennies away from an all-time high
Gas prices continued to climb Monday, rising to just short of a record high. At their skyrocketing pace, the price per gallon record of $4.11 will probably be broken in just a day or two.
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Of course Donald Trump endorsed Sarah Palin
Without Sarah Palin, there is no Donald Trump. So it makes perfect sense that the former President threw his support behind the former Alaska governor's House candidacy Sunday night.
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An overlooked 'wow' moment from the 1/6 committee's latest hearing
Michael Flynn wasn't the star of the House January 6 committee's hearing on Tuesday. In fact, he appeared -- via taped video testimony -- for less than five minutes.
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Why Mitch McConnell's comment about the January 6 committee matters
Mitch McConnell is the master of the "no comment." Ask the Senate minority leader about something that he doesn't want to talk about, and he will give you a "haven't seen that" or "don't have anything to say about that" as easy as Steph Curry shooting a three.
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Why the Mark Meadows criminal contempt move is so different
There's a tendency to lump the vote by the House on Tuesday night to recommend criminal contempt charges against former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the same pile as a previous House vote to do the same to former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon.
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Delta posts a profit but warns Omicron will mean a loss this quarter
A strong holiday travel season helped Delta Air Lines to a better-than-forecast profit in the last three months of 2021. But it expects to lose money again in the current quarter as Covid infections surge.
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Why Senate Republicans are just fine with Joe Manchin calling them every name in the book
In the immediate aftermath of the Senate voting down a bipartisan commission to conduct a soup-to-nuts review of the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, the West Virginia Democrat let loose on his Republican colleagues.
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Debbie Allen Makes History As the First Black Woman to Receive the Governors Award
Debbie Allen made history at the 73rd Emmys by becoming the first Black woman to receive the Governors Award. She was honored on Sunday night for her contributions to television as a writer, actress, director, producer, dancer, and choreographer.
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Paint is the latest product facing supply shortages and higher prices
As the global supply chain crisis continues to roil the global economy, the list of impacted industries is growing by the day. The latest: paint.
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Kyrsten Sinema and when confrontation culture goes too far
The video is striking: Protesters angry about Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's opposition to the $3.5 trillion social safety net package currently being considered by Congress follow her into a bathroom to make their point -- filming Sinema as she enters a stall.